A VISUAL MANIFESTATION

 

JWaviBoi [Jordan] looks to deconstruct the problems and greatness in the content of our immediate society, to the people in it. Using multimedia, both popular and alternative values are turned into a metaphoric conversation, particularly within the fashion and youth culture.

 

At GCSE, she took fine art, where she explored identity and culture. Along with graphics products, where she first began to venture into the digital world, creating promotional material. This led to her work experience placement at a design and print company, shadowing each department. Here, she learned about not only the process of the project proposal but the stages of production.

 

When it came to the end of school, she brought her separate passions of traditional and digital art together, by studying Animation & Illustration at college. It was there that she encountered programmes such as photoshop, flash and premiere pro, along with the use of DSLRs.

 

Over the course of the 2 years, Jordan independently produced several short films, from a paper stop motion based on the fable ‘the miser and his gold’ where she replaced money with the importance of a heart, all the way to a digitally drawn 2D animation constructed on the realistic theory of eventual artificial intelligence take over.

Within this time she also expanded her life drawing techniques, built models, developed characters, formed game designs, wrote narratives, explored society and performed a large amount of analytical, qualitative and quantitative data.

 

Something about constantly being surrounded by the use of narratives and unworldly visuals didn’t sit right. She wanted to express, through something real, raw and relatable. The eventual self-directed final project was the moment she defied her first receival of expectations. Weaving her way into live action, whilst still meeting the criteria, she created a stop-motion called ‘I thought I’d silenced you’, consisting of over 1,000 individual images. This was a fashion/popular culture based video, standing for freedom, expression, chance and Identity within our generation.

 

Because of her success in this, she continued onto a Media Production class in Brighton, during her 'gap year'. Her shooting knowledge grew to a more professional level, along with all stages of production. Despite it being a lot more in-depth with photography, on top of filmmaking, she was very much involved in communicating with people in various industries from directors to campaigners to graffiti artists.

 

Now, she is living in London and attending her most sought-after university. The broadness of her course is ideal, and she intends to develop and refine the multi-disciplined artist she has become, through such freedom. She is now working towards her goal of being in fashion media and design.

 

 

 

 

 

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