My Self Portrait (Wk 3)
Image #1: This was a way to capture how most people see me, lazy and a TV and film nerd.
Image #2: A pawn against an entire army is symbolic of my feelings towards facing getting a job in the industry while also highlighting how I sometimes feel like the black sheep with my peers.
Image #3: I used my glasses to reveal how I hope people would understand me more if only they could see life through my eyes while the faded tracks in the grass are a metaphor for the decisions faced in life, easy way or the hard.
Image #4: Simply a way of communicating fear of the unknown and the constant feeling of getting swallowed up by the future.
Video #1: A quick retelling of my gap year, revealing my ideal state of laziness and how I enjoy a quiet, serene lifestyle.
Video #2: Use of a cliched image of driving down a road at night to show a period of change in my life while a 90’s anthem for maturing plays to indicate my yearning to reach adulthood.
Audio #1: The most succinct way to broadcast aspects of my personality.
Audio #2: This excerpt from Harry Potter is metaphorical of his journey into a fantasy life, where he had control for the first time in his life, an idea which shaped my childhood since I first read the book.
Text:
“You see us as you want to see us – in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal.”
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
“Cool. Cool cool cool.”
I used these three quotes from The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future and Community respectively as I use television and movies to define and present myself to the people around me. The first quote is all about outside source defining everyone they see while the second one suggests a mystery and adventure awaiting in the future while the third quote is simply a way of expressing my feelings through my favourite show.
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