Portrait

Here is my final portrait.















After asking members of my family to comment on my personality to aid my research, the characteristic that often came up was my ability to change moods instantly and without warning (one minute I'll be having a laugh, the next ill be biting their head off)
This was a great starting point as I found it quite easy to relate this shift in characteristics with my key area of practice - motion.
As you can see my final image shows five of my different characteristics on one set of shoulders. I have also made it look like I am shaking my head to create a sense of motion. I have also placed an image of me smiling in the centre to show that at the centre of it all I am a happy and kind hearted individual.

(Left to Right)
The first characteristic (far left) is my intellectual and hard working side. The next is my patriotic, football mad and crazy side. The centre image is my usually nice and kind hearted side. The next is my angry and short tempered side. The last (far right) is my loving and caring side.

Final Images...

Portrait Image

Here is the result of my development. With the help of my girlfriend I took a variety of photographs of me sitting in one place pulling faces to represent my personality. I then took them in to photoshop and created the following images :







Images with motion blur to create the sense of movement and to represent my area of practice (motion graphics) :

Development...

Unfortunately we are unable to show a piece of motion on screen in our 'exhibition' (theft of computers etc) so I decided to use the same kind of idea but relate it to a single image.

At this point i considered a piece of experimental work I did over the summer. This piece involved me wearing a pop sock over my head and moving my head around in un-natural movements. I then took this footage into an editing programme and layered it up using motion blurs.

Idea development...

Media - Mixed media: 'Blurred Boundaries'

This is a result of combining two of my previous ideas.

I have taken the idea of revealing aspects of my personality through a spinning motion and merged it with the image of a film strip to reflect my passion for motion graphics and film. I have entitled it blurred boundaries because during every spin action the image becomes blurred, this also represents that although I have many different sides to my personality I am ultimately the same person.

Inital Ideas...

Here are a selection of initial ideas:

Media - Illustration:
a possible vector based image representing my personality.









Media - Video: 'Sleeping'

Sleep is a very personal and intimate time and can reveal someones personality and sate of mind.
My idea was to film myself sleeping. This would be filmed using a 'top down' perspective as if you where looking at me lying in bed.
-This idea was influenced by a previouse work showing a certain David Beckham sleeping.


Media - Video: 'The many faces of Peter Allinson'

This idea consists of me holding an empty frame infront of my face capturing different emotions that make me who I am.
-This is very similar to the well known HP commercial (shown below) although I may experiment I will not try to replicate...



Media - Collage/ Print

A montage using different areas of my face (eyes/nose/mouth etc)
- Could pull different expressions to reflect my personality.



(Above) The Bush Library in America commissioned Jonathan Yeo (British portraitist) to do George Junior, then backed out. In umbrage, Yeo then did the portrait anyway, fashioning the face of the Potus from a collage of porn mags.
It's really not that explicit, or else it isn't until I work out how to zoom in on my computer, and if I were going to go to that kind of trouble, I might as well look at actual porn. A spokesman for the Republican party said: "This picture is very distasteful. Why would anyone want to make a picture of our President from pornographic material?" You could probably file that under, "Well, if you have to ask ..."

Media - Video

This idea consists of me spinning around on a fixed chair pulling expessions that reflect my personality including joyfull, moody, passionate (possible union jack painted on face)

- Close up shot (portrait) with a black background.
- Initial ideas is for the video to be displayed in back and white.

Media - Print

Photos shown within film strip to represent my love for motion graphics and film.

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Brainstorm...

(Click to enlarge brainstorm)

Who am I?...

Words that descripe me (with help from relatives)

happy, moody, funny, outgoing, socialble, mean streak, single minded, selfish, determined, work horse, kind hearted, giving, thoughtful, cheesy, thinker, worrier, laid back, care free, annoying, tediouse, fun, careing, helpful...

As you can see when you try to analyse yourself there can be many contradictions.

Identity

Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity.



Identity may be contrasted with the notion of self. In psychology, a psychological identity relates to self-image (a person's mental model of him or herself), self-esteem, and individuation. An important part of identity in psychology is gender identity, as this dictates to a significant degree how an individual views him or herself both as a person and in relation to other people. In cognitive psychology, the term "identity" refers to the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self.

Portrait

A portrait is a painting (portrait painting), photograph (portrait photography), or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

When the artist creates a portrait of him- or herself, it is called a self-portrait

Here are some examples of portraits (click to enlarge):