ninth Artefact lesson (:

Today i was really panicing through the week beacause i couldnt find anyone to model for me but luckly Melissa stepped in and saved the day (: We got her all dressed up and made up ready for taking the pictures i was worried that the pictures wouldnt come out so i took two pictures of the same shot just incase. They where going really well then i remembered that i was forgeting that i needed someone to stand in the background and look scary. I went on a hunt looking for people but nearly everyone was really busy with their own work but James was free for a little while and helped us with the last shots. He stood in the background looking scary then he helped me smash the glass bottle and set it up around melissa when she was laying on the floor and then we added red food colouring to make it look like there was blood. It looked really convincing and quite scary. The last shot i took about 10 of because it is the shot that i needed to scratch the writing into and i needed spares just incase i went wrong on one of them. I stayed in over break to develop my film and have it drying while i tryed to work out how i was going to make my rose. I was aloud to use a sheet of metal like i wanted to make the rose and then i had to start to make templates of the petals and cut them out this was hard work and I kept scratching myself on the metal. After i had cut out all the petals i had to try and work out how i was going to put them all together. I could see how i wanted it in my head but it was alot harder to do it. I tryed about 4 differnt methods and in the end i was doing well with threding it onto thin wire and layering it. It looked like a flower but not exactly a rose but it was still progress.
Next lesson i have alot to do. I need to finish my rose print and mount my pictures and paint the peom onto my grave stone and i only have till 12 so im going to have to work really hard if im going to get it all done in time.

eighth artefact lesson.

This lesson I had to pick what one of my 3 ideas i was going to do. I picked the one about the girl going out at night and her thinking she was safe but really she wasnt.
After break i started to develope the negitives that i had scratched into to see how the writing came out. At first i didnt notice i had the negitive the wrong way round so all the writing was comming out backwards but i just thought that it wasnt neat enough to read but then Emily said why is it backwards and thats when i noticed. I then tryed it the right way round and it was readable. On my final idea i will try to to the writing alot neater and easyer to read but its hard becasue it is so small. I did a couple of test strips to show my progress and then did a final copy showing the writing the right way round and with the exposure okkay. After lunch i started to devople the way i was going to mount my idea and i knew that i wanted a grave stone in it beacuse that represents her being dead and then i thought how the put flowers on graves and how a rose looked pretty but then its thorns can hurt you like her thinking she was safe but really she wasnt then Sir showed me a poem about a rose and how it looked nice on the outside but there was a worm in the middle and it was eating it and killing it but it still looked pretty on the outside. I thought this fitted in with my idea aswell and i would paint the poem onto my grave stone like they have writing on the grave stone and that is the story behind how i got my final idea. In the last lesson i started to make my grave stone this was alot harder than i thought becasue the chicken wire was hard to cut and we couldnt work out the shape properly but in the end we decided that not all gravestones look perfect because they are old and crumbling so I quickly modrocked it before the end of the day.
Next week i will take my pictures on film and get the film developed and then start to make my rose.