I decided I would base it on something everyone would understand and would of had experience with. I used 'fake smiles' which is related to the subject of bullying, and how people feel like they need to make out they're okay when they're not. I felt although I could be imaginative and creative with the concept; With the many ways I could make the audience understand the message,
For examples: I created some pieces to practice with,
I took inspiration from the Joker, (the idea of his cut mouth,) to show that people force themselves to look happy. I used an image of a girl with pain in her eyes, to show that she's not okay.
To create the illusion of the cut mouth, I used another picture of the Joker and cropped around his cuts and added them onto the girl.
For this one I took a girl looking very upset, I wanted to create an affect of someone holding some paper over her, (A bit like a mask,) with a smile drawn onto it. It looks like from other peoples point of view she's fine because of that paper. This one was to prove that even though it looks like she's smiling, it doesn't mean she's happy.
I used Banksy to inspire my Final piece. I liked the idea of it being really dark, and most of the image being black with hardly any colour. This also came in handy because I knew how to use the threshold tool, which means I could easily portray the techniques I needed.
For my Final piece I used a model, (Kendall Jenner,) so I could find images of her two expressions, (one sad and one happy,) this is so I can create the idea that a sad girl is holding a mask with a happier version of herself.
When creating my final piece I used photoshop.
I found the two images of Kendall Jenner;
I adjusted the images and made it threshold to hide and distort the identity. After this I used the magic wand tool and selected all the white area and deleted this. I created a new layer and painted over the white parts, then swapped the layer underneath the original. I used blue - sad colours for the depressing image. And yellow - happy colours for the upbeat image. I then cut out both images and saved them.
For the background of the whole piece I made it a dark grey colour.. Almost black, but I did not want it to blend with the threshold images. I made it gradient and used a lighter grey.
To give the picture a better concept/idea of what it is I found lots of quotes and wrote them in the background in a white/Light grey this is so that they would stand out and give some contrast to the image.
To add in some finer detail I changed the opacity in some areas to give it a shadow effect, this would also give the impression of it being easier to look at - since most of the image is just sharp and heavy.
I'm proud of my Final piece because it's edgy and different. I'm happy with the way I kept changing and improving my ideas as I was creating it. I was willing to take advice and ideas from my friends and teachers, as I felt although if they understood the image then other people would. my target audience would be for everyone, mostly for teenagers as it's quite heavy stuff, although this could happen to everyone. I feel like to improve it could of maybe changed the background to a lighter colour - This is because I would of liked the model to stand out more and the mask. I could of maybe added a website to go to or maybe even a telephone number; then maybe the message would be more noticeable, also people may feel like they have somewhere to go/someone to talk to.
