Polaroid Collage- Assignment #5

Polaroid Collage:

              In the next assignment, we created a polaroid collage. In my work, I designed a dancer as if it was several polaroids. The strongest technical aspect of my work is definitely how I placed my polaroids. The placement of the polaroids is my strongest technical aspect because it became difficult to balance the polaroids. However, I am proud I managed to place them appropriately. A technical aspect of work that I can improve on is the idea of having parts of her body out of polaroids. In this assignment, we must also be sure a part of your image falls off of a polaroid. Although I did do it once, I believe that aspect would have been stronger if improved more.

             The easiest aspect of this activity was the arrangement of the background. The background was the easiest aspect because you simply had to create a few layers that work with each other. This part was easy for my design because many things can work with the topic of dance like any other type of art. A part of this activity that was difficult was the idea of some polaroids over the object and others behind. At times it became difficult because I could not decide what would look better in certain situations.

               The objective of the polaroid collage is to create a well balanced thematic collage that develops the illusion of scattered polaroids including a symbolic background. I demonstrated this objective by balancing the illusion of my polaroids. I also created a corresponding background that can stand well on its own and symbolizes more of my idea, dance. If I could do this art activity again, I would change the placement of my polaroids. I realized that most of the dancers upper body appears over the polaroids and could surely be improved and rearranged. In conclusion, in our 5th assignment, I created a polaroid collage.