A LEVEL ART and DESIGN

COMPONENT 2
EXTERNALLY SET ASSIGNMENT
TO BE COMPLETED BY THE CANDIDATE

Centre Name The Henley College Centre Number

Candidate Name Holly Wisdom Candidate Number 2

Critical &
Art, Craft & Textile Graphic
Tick the title for Design
Fine Art Contextual
Design Comm.
3D Design Photography
which you are Studies

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LEARNER STATEMENT
COMPLETION OF THIS FORM IS COMPULSORY
Complete and submit the learner statement with your work as it will be referred to when it is assessed.
To place your submission in a suitable context, use the template below:
Explain the MAIN IDEA(S) for the development of your responses
My theme is Relationships, and I will explore relationships between people and characters for the purpose
of creating a scene that represents two or more characters relationship with each other:

• Storyboard of a scene showing Abby and Kor’s relationship

o Trust
o Closeness
o Reassurance
o Reliance
o Show of trust
▪ Showing a wound
▪ Letting the other clean/tend to the wounds
▪ Explaining the symbolism of the tattoo
▪ Show of emotions
o https://youtu.be/PbSZhGONRBg
o Narrative:
▪ Abby finds Kor alone on a hill/roof watching the sky
▪ Asks him if somethings bothering him
▪ He tries to brush her off and pretends its nothing
▪ She keeps pushing it until he gives in
▪ He explains something (Insecurity, Worries etc)
▪ She tries to comfort him and he interrupts (“Nothing you can say will make it better. Best to realise that
while you’re ahead.”)
▪ She snaps back (“That might be true, but pushing people away isn’t going to make it better either.”)
▪ He looks surprised as she stands and goes over to him
▪ Kneels and pushes her head against his.
▪ Tries to comfort him again. (“You don’t have to carry a burden alone.”)
▪ Close shot of their foreheads together and Kor looking surprised
▪ Wide shot of them sat together
o Printed on several pieces of paper, choose 1 or two scenes to fully paint and print on A4, storyboard is printed
entirely on A5
• Groups relationship
o Closeness
o Tight-Knit
o Inseparable
o Music Video storyboard or one large picture of them all together
o Settings:
▪ Tavern
▪ Mess Hall
▪ Camping out at night
Outline your PLAN(S) for the development of your work
I plan to explore this by researching artists, locations, relationship signifiers, and exploring how
circumstances can reflect how a characters relationship can change with another by looking at my previous
Dungeons and Dragons sessions and writing short paragraphs about an interaction and how it affected a
character.

I will apply all of this by producing a short scene in a storyboard with one or two (depending on time) fully
coloured with subtitles representing the relationship between two or more of the characters from my
previous project.
I will write about each characters relationships first to decide who I will focus on, and I will also write about
possible interactions and scenes I could use to represent them, as well as research into similar scenes
from movies, games or books to get references for posing, tone and composition.

I may use some of the expectation breaking natures of the characters designs to further a relationship or
representation, which could influence tone or message.
Describe the CONTEXT (influences, purposes and meanings) of your work
I was influenced by songs about relationships, games and movies as well as books, because of how they
communicate and display relationships. Some medias are better at showing the emotion of a relationship
while others build them up or talk about what happens, and I would want to focus on the emotion and
relationship itself. I was also influenced by how D&D characters grow and change based on the other
players actions and the circumstances they are in at the time.

The purpose of the project is to explore how characters relationships can be influenced and changed by
certain circumstances and interactions, and how a certain relationship with another can change the way
they act or present themselves.

The meaning behind it is to show that some people or characters are often one way with most people, but
entirely different alone or with someone else, and that first impressions don’t always count for everything.

REFLECT on your work critically as it progresses and on its completion

02/03/20
Finished Compiling artists to research and D&D interactions. I could elaborate on some of the relationships
and interactions so I can have a diverse selection of relationships to draw from, and I should find
relationships from movies, games or books to explore as well because they might wield different results to
focusing purely on D&D. This can be focused on characters that influenced the creation of my characters
for this project and their relationships with characters in their media so I have a point of similarity to work
from.

13/03/20
Researched artists, I would want to research relationships in music, but I couldn’t find a song that had
suitable lyrics for what I was planning.

20/03/20
Started Uploading everything to Weebly and finishing off component 1 work. I started uploading everything
onto one page so I could remember what I had, and so if I lost anything I could copy it from the published
website.

01/04/20
Uploaded two outfit references for Kor and Abby, as I decided they were the two I wanted to focus on. I
included a casual outfit, a workout/hobby outfit and a formal outfit so I could decide what setting I wanted to
write them into.

10/04/20
Uploaded my brainstorming for my theme to my Weebly, as well as the primary drawings and primary
images. I would have wanted to do more, but due to circumstances and other issues, I was finding it hard
to keep up.

20/04/20
I uploaded my research to Weebly, though I still wasn’t happy with what I found. I was trying to look for
other artists but it was increasingly difficult to find someone who would make sense for the project.

22/04/20
I wrote about my final Piece plans, added some more writing to explain my thought process and general
rundowns for the outfits.