Context of Practice: Studio Brief 2 (Final Peer Review)

Similarly to the previous crits we grouped rather randomly to avoid familiar faces.

In reflection I found this crit really helpful, perhaps the most successful crit of the whole year. As a group we explored each others qualms and strengths and made decent suggestions.

The group unanimously supported the idea of making a series of posters rather than a single image, as it would help communicate the Bond franchise's legacy.

It was also discussed that the composition should remove the heroic pose of Bond, apparently this created a conflict of message, instead the focal point should be a huge looming face of each Bond.

I have chosen to create compositions for Connery's, Moore's and Craig's Bonds as they are probably the more recognisable of the actors who have portrayed him on screen. They suitably show a broad selection of the last 50 or so years which the franchise has occupied.

Context of Practice: Posters

After some consideration I resolved to create at least one poster describing the contrast between Bond's jingoistic intentions and the historical and political events of the correlating decades.

As usual I first created several thumbnails based on compositions used in existing Bond posters and related franchises in the Cold War.









I reused my Roger Moore study with an additional upper body pose, typical of the Bond character (he never adopts this pose in the actual films, yet regularly assumes it throughout publicity material). Using this imagery I created three quick palette tests.

Context of Practice: Portraits

Firstly, it was my intention to create portraits which pictured Bond with the most morose



expressions. To find the most appropriate reference material I searched through the seemingly endless stock pile of video montages and tributes of the James Bond character. it was surprisingly difficult to find him showing emotions other than the usual suave-self assured grin.

Context of Practice: Pecha Kucha

During this session we presented the short presentations that we had prepared over the last few weeks. The presentations delivered the essential premise of our final pieces and explained the research behind them.



I didn't particularly rehearse the presentation, meaning that throughout the delivery I was in a state of mild panic in regards to the short time limit. At least this prevented the presentation becoming non sequitur.

Much to my surprise the feedback was mostly positive, though there was some confusion regarding my actual proposed artwork, which is understandable due to my own confusion in that matter. The only course of action I might undertake is to simply create more visual responses to my body of research.