Formulating the Final Idea

Formulating final project 

The project I have selected, is to produce the self portrait, (idea three), this project is in comparison of my essay. which is based on Dyslexia to Creativity. By researching into various Artist/Photographers who have Dyslexia but look into dept on how creative it can be to a piece of work. 

Aims and Objectives

My project will be looking into myself as a photographer with the learning difficulty, to understand whether or not Dyslexia is a key element into my own work but by dong this, it will help to accept the difficulty that is part of me, but also share my own story into hoping others will feel brave enough into coming out, and not feeling like it's a weakness but something to be proud of. 

The aim of this project is to allow an understanding and a connection, to show that not everything has a limitation but a more wider visual. i am also trying to show two sides of expectations - to where someone thinks differently of you and expects different of you rather than accept you for you.

I am hoping to support my essay Dyslexia to Creativity. this is about researching on whether Dyslexia is creative and to prove researchers that Dyslexia can be a gift on its own. 

Creative Intentions 

although I am researching into whether Dyslexia is a gift to creativity, my creative intention for this project to express and make the audience aware of the insecurities and the struggle Dyslexia can have to an individual but also show a personal matter into acceptance to myself.

This will be through a self portrait, experimenting into portraying myself with the typography and various compositions and techniques such as levitation.

Legalisation and Ethics 

For any choice of Project, how I portray the idea of Dyslexia to creativity, there are some Legal requirements I would have to be careful of. Out of so many children and adults have a form of Dyslexia, this project is not out to offend anyone but it is aimed at showing my personal struggles  with living with Dyslexia, as long as I take precaution into justifying the project there will be no legal action.   

Costs 

For this project there is little costing  that is required, the cost of anything will be more to the final production such as mounting or frames along with any special requirement to printing paper or buying extra film. 

fit for purpose 

Throughout the project on the experimental side, working within the levitation, I will need work with a stool for the height to the project idea of myself sitting on various words such as sitting on the word Dyslexia. health and Safety will need to be taken into the account in case of any accidents such as a faulty stool leg.

By not Targeting my project to a specific age group will help draw more attention to how make Dyslexia your own style, work with it instead of against against it, I am also hoping to make the target audience think and attempt to understand that just because someone has this learning difficulty, we are not that different from everyone, accepting being different is the way to not be the same. 

To produce a strong overall outcome, I will need to set myself mini deadlines to work with along with planning each action that is required and giving myself enough time to either reshoot or make final adjustments to the image e.g. editing and putting the series together.

Personal targets

Throughout this project, I am hoping to achieve targets by pushing myself into over come any struggles that may rise but I want to achieve this mainly for myself into knowing that there dis no boundaries that can hold me back into showing full potential.

I also want to make  stand against something that personal to my family and myself but also capture the thoughts of the audience and make them appreciate not just the effort of work and ability but also the message in the work. To relies people with Dyslexia are not the enemy.

Throughout this project I am looking at challenging myself further with my studio and photoshop skills and build up an expansion of knowledge into making quicker judgements and not allow myself to hold back. 

If the outcome showed how I visualised this project turning out to where the message was so strong, that people understood what it meant to have Dyslexia, then I would feel like I could take it further and create a wider technique and try a wider range of compositions and even expand to get other people to open up more about their own story - to give people a voice, it starts with one image.