Sophie Trouse Silver Arts Award

Today we discussed how I will go about obtaining my silver arts award, through a combination of visual arts, and organising a multimedia event to raise awareness of mental health. Although this is relatively early on in my current project, I aim to improve my photography especially on the topic of urban decay and dereliction. I find that 28dayslater is a very useful website/forum to exhibit photography and comment on others images. I am planning to upload a report of my own photos to this site.

To do this I need to consider

• the legalities - I have to think about whether my entry to such places is lawful. If I decide it is verging on illegal, that building is out of the question, for example any forced entry is illegal.
  
• equipment needed
• time management
• proximity/transport
• research possible buildings locally
  

Last month, I attended MCM Expo which is a comic and anime convention in London where i saw other artists work, which gave me insight into alternative drawing styles, for example 'chibifying' characters to convey emotion at particular moments in a story.