Criterion D - Script Final

Wassup my name’s Jiri. Hey, I’m Kyu. Today we’re gonna talk about dating in Mongolia.Furthermore, what makes it even more intersting is that the situation in Mongolia is different from the situation in more developed countries such as the States Therefore, we thought it was the perfect topic to discuss on the theme "exploring adolescence and how it is different in Mongolia." Before we start, we have interviewed 5 girls and 3 guys to just see their opinion on dating in Mongolia, and in general terms. So the questions we asked them were: how often do they go out on dates, what do they look for in a guy/girl, what turns them on, what do they expect from a guy/girl after dates, whether they prefer talking over physical things during dates, what their dream dates are, are there a variety of dating partners to choose from in Mongolia, and how they expect their dates to act during dates.

(We will be reading some answers of each questions, and we will be talking in an improvising manner about their answers, and therefore, we did not create a specific script on this part on purpose). (The tone that we use during the improvisation will not be specified, since the answers will be varied and we must respond accordingly). (We will be exploring why they responded in that manner).

These answers might be affected by the fact that the interviewees are the students living in Mongolia. If we were to receive the responses to the same questions from the teenagers in the States, I can guarantee that many of these answers will be different. However, I think that some answers come to a universal agreement. So in order to compare and analyze some of the answers, we decided to gather the most common answers for all the questions of the 8 interviews. For how much people go on dates, the most common answer was "Not that often." However, if it was in the States, the response would be "often." Most of the people responded that they look for personality, looks, and body for someone who they would want to date. I guess that this would be much more of a universal answer. However, for the question of "What turns you on?" we could not reach a common answer because everyone's desire and tastes were different, and it would be accurate to say that the it would be the same response as the teenagers of the States. For the question "What do you expect from your partner after a date" was a hug, and nothing more physical. We are not sure whether this is universal, and therefore, we will not state any unsupported statements. It also seems that all of the interviewees preferred to talk on dates, rather than physical contact, and the same thing applies as sthe last question. However, the dream dates of the people varied by person, and therefore we could not reach a conclusion. Of course, this answer would be universal too because everyone's tastees are different. However, almost all of the responses of "Is there a variety of people to date to choose from?" were "NO!!!!" This would have been definitely different in the States. And finally, the most common answer for "How do theyt expect their dates to act during a date?" was "Confident and Open" and we believe this is also universal.

Well, we hope that we provided good information on this topic, and that you guys enjoyed the podcast. We hope that it enables you to go a step deeper on exploring adolescence, and how teenagers in Mongolia differ in different situations to the teenagers in other countries, especially on the topic of dating. I hope you can all understand or at least see the perspective of dating in Mongolia. Hope for the best, thanks for listening, and peace out.

Criterion D - Script

Wassup my names Jiri. Hey I’m Kyu. Today we are going to talk about Dating in Mongolia. Before we start, we interviewed 5 girls and 3 guys to see their opinion on dating in Mongolia and dating in general. The questions we asked were How often do you go on dates in Mongolia, what do you look for in a guy/girl, what turns you on, what do you expect from a guy/girl after dates, do you like to talk more on dates or expect more physical things, what’s your dream date, is there a variety of guys/girls to pick from in Mongolia, how do you expect a guy/girl to act during a date.
(we will read the answers ,not all, and pick out the most interesting ones that we can talk about. We will improvise that part of the script. Comment on answers. There will be no specific tone, we will just say our opinions on the answers and maybe discuss why they answered that way.)
It seems that everyone had quite interesting answers. I think that the answers are even more special, because the responses came from guys and girls of our age in Mongolia. However, there seems to be a common pattern between the answer. Here is what I have noticed: (State question with many similar answers) these answers might be affected by the fact that (…). In my opinion, there are also some universal answers, such as (…). Maybe it is due to (…). Well thanks for listening and I hope that we gave a good perspective on dating in Mongolia, as well as why we think the way we think about the subject.

Jiri will read introduction, Kyu has conclusion. The improvisation part will be both.

Criterion C

Criterion B

Me and Kyu have collaborated to create the podcast and therefore will have the same material for criteria B
List of possible topics:
Alcohol
Sex
Why classical music is not better than hip hop (vice versa)
How to balance academic, social, and athletic life
How to drink wine and champagne with the consent of your parents
Bad music taste
Why supernatural is awesome
Intended audience:
People above the age of 13 including but not limited to adults, parents, relatives, etc. It can be both strangers and asquaintances.

How can we record and publich our podcast:
Record the podcast using a webcam and post it up on Youtube.
Use the voice recprder tp recprd tje [pdcast and post it on a podcasting website such as www.mypodcast.com
Borrow a musical studio to record the podcast in a professional environment and post it up on a podcasting website
Use a video recorder to recrod the podcast and post it up on our individual blog (for IT class)
Use a phone to record or video the podcast and then post it up on Youtube or a podcast website.
We will be using voice recordin device to record the podcast and publish it on a podcasting website. We chose this method because we thought it would be convenient and will produce a good quality sound. We chose to publish this on a podcasting website because the TV series Supernatural is ahot topic in the States as well as around the world and therefore should provide interest to the audience.

Design Specifications:
A "Real" Podcast, audio
A podcast that will have an audible sound quality
A podcast where the participants (me and Kyu) will speak clearly
The podcast will be around 10 minutes
It will be a collaboration between the two participants
It will be a critical analysis of the TV series discussing its quality and providing evidence for why or why not the show is good

The rest of the criterion b is written on kyus blog i will copy it here asap

Criterion A Investigation

Podcats can be used for anything you want to. You can use them to tell people about your life, about a favorite tv show, book, movie, etc. Anyone who wants to can make a podcast for no reason. They might want to share their feelings about something because they feel bad so they need to talk about it, but they dont have anyone so they just make a podcast. Anyone who is interested in a topic that the podcast is made on can listen to them. They are probably either improvised where the person just starts recording and talking about the topic they chose, or they first plan it all out, maybe write a script and then record. Usually you make an audio and written podcast.
Our task is to create a podcast on adolesence in Mongolia. How it is here and what we do. Its important to learn about podcasting so we know about what mistakes we might do. We listened to a few of our classmates practice podcasts we did over the "break". Anyone can listen to our podcasts. They will probably be uploaded on youtube so anyone outside of the school can listen to them also. I am working with Kyu on this project and we still havent decided our exact topic or anything we want to do.

http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=63122 ended 17 mins

I only got the chance to listen to one podcast because it was about 90 minutes long. This podcast was just about a few people, i believe it was 3, talking about new music that they absolutely hate. I liked this podcast, because these people were funny, had no problem saying what they want to say and made the whole podcast more enjoyable with their comments about music. I found this on a random website luking up podcast, because when i searched topics that i liked, they never worked so i found a random one. A new podcast comes out once every 2 weeks. Matt, Howie and Bri are the 3 people that recorded this podcast. I forgot to mention that this is also about friends chilling and what they talk about when alcohol is involved. I find it funny listening to drunk people do podcasts.

Palace, Howie. "Throttle My Power Zord" Free Beer. 5/11/09: 49. 25/11/09.
To record a podcast you can use almost any kind of technology. From a computer to a phone, mp3, ipod, or even a camera. To publish it you can either pick a podcast website, register there, and post the podcast, or you could go on youtube or similar websites and post a video podcast there.
Test
A good test to evaluate this is to post the podcast on a podcast website,youtube or even on facebook, and ask teenagers in mongolia to comment on this saying if they think that the topic, problem or situation is true or not. They should also mention if the sound quality, clarity and things like this were good or bad.

Podcast practice

My topic is teenagers and alcohol. I chose this topic because its a normal thing these days, but in our parents generation, no one was able to do it, because they would get beaten by their parents and they never risked it, unless they knew for sure they wouldnt get caught.

The experiences are a lot different from our parents experience. Eventhough i am sure that our parents generation used to go out drinking when they were teenagers, they deffinitely didnt do it as much as teenagers do today. I think desires are different now, because i think we have more freedom than our parents did when they were young, so we want more and more and we take advantage of having more freedom.



Podcast Practice:



Hello my name is Nate and i just moved to mongolia a few months ago. Im 16 years old and i moved here because of my parents. My dad works for the embassy. So far i dont think mongolia is that bad, but its not that good for my future. I like to go out and chill with friends. I do some sports, but not that much. Im in 10th grade now and i go to the international school in Ulaanbaatar. I have many life challenges now, but the main one is to ged my grades up and get into the college i want to and study the major that i find most interesting. Hopefully i would have chosen what to do by the time i get to 12th grade.

I wanted to talk about parents and alcohol. This topic is quite annoying and irritating when it comes to parent child talks, because they never understand that its a different time now. They always bring up these stories how they never drank alcohol and how they were these pure little kids just running around playing and then working most of their day to help with the financial problems of the family. They just never understand that its a different time now and everyone drinks acohol. They should be happy that i dont do drugs or anything else. Here in Mongolia there arent many places to go out so my parents view of me is better because i dont go out as much as i used to in my previous country. I think that they should let loose a bit more and just let us drink. When we turn 18 they wont be able to do anything anymore. A lot of my friends that are around 23 always go out and drink with their dads so i dont get why we cant do it now. Its probably that they are scared that we might get too wasted and go to the hospital or get into a fight or something. I think that the only main reason is the age. Even if we are completely the same person at 23 as when we were 15 its the age that matters, the number. There also needs to be some trust with parents. If there is a lot of trust, then you could compromise that you will only take this amount of alcohol and then they can call you at some point that night and see if youre not wasted. If this were possible both sides would be happy i think.

Podcasts interviews

These are the questions that i have asked 3 teenagers and my mom:

1. What do you think about love
2. What do you think about frienship
3. What do you think about sex
4. Do you get stressed a lot
5. If yes, then about what
6. How do you cope with stress

I asked 3 teenagers to answer these question and they came up with:

Derryn:

1. Love is cool, but you need to find the right person
2. Friendship is awesome, friends are the best thing you can have in your life
3. Sex as a teenager is alright, as long as both parties are ready
4. Not really, occasionally though
5. Work, Family
6. Punch stuff/throw stuff against my wall, sleep, music, sports

Nalini:

1. I think love is overrated. Very influenced by the media of what the stereotypical perfect couples should look and act like.
2. "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
3. Too many teenagers have sex without meaning or purpose. once again, overrated.
4. Yes
5. School
6. I dont. I normally just get so stressed that i freak out

Beom su:

1. In love you have to protect your partner, believe them and stand by them at all times
2. Responsible, trustful,reliable
3. Its not right thing to do even both partners agreed, but if they thoughof it seriously and both partners agreed then its alright
4. Not really no
5. School, homework given at school
6. Sleep, hang out with friends

This is an interview with my mom using the same questions:

1. Its wonderful and basic human need
2. Friendship is sometimes more than love
3. Be careful and be educated
4. Soemtimes
5. Traffic jam
6. Relaxation, yoga

Todays teenagers, they have more acces to information as in internet, which we did not have. We had a more calm daily routine.

These were the interview that i did. I have yet not gotten my moms picture, because it will be hard to get due to the fact that we are in mongolia and all my mothers early life pictures are in czech republic.

These are the answers to question 1.d.:

1. My mother already answered this question for me. Basically they didnt have much access to information as we do now, so they had to search through books, which made it a lot harder. The advantage of that is that they had a more calm, down to earth daily routine, because they played games outside in the field, whilst we play in our rooms sometimes addicted to the game on our computers.
2. This question was again answered before. I believe it is because of the technology imporvement, especially the internet. Without that some people would say they would die. Also cell phones and land lines have changed us a lot.
3. I think i am happy to be born in this time, because even though i would have thought that cars going 20km per hour are something really new if i was born during my grandparents time, this is a lot better for me to get a good education with all the resources i need.
4. I think our generation is more layed back, relaxed and sometimes a bit too relaxed. The teenage life is expected to be fun like partying every week, not doing work, which isnt a good thing. Technology also defines our generation. Without a computer or a cell phone, some people would just do nothing all day.

I cannot get pictures of any of my interviewees at this moment but i will try to upload them on my blog asap.

Criterion F Evaluation

Personal engagement
I think that i was quite motivated and hard working on this project. I worked efficiently and did not get distracted while working, only after finishing the work. I worked independently, maybe i got some pointers from teachers and friends once in a while, but not that anyone did the project for me or told me exactly what to do and write. I think my attitude was positive towards the project, because again i got the work done efficiently and tried hard to make it good and appropriate.

Attitudes towards safety, cooperation, and respect for others
I think that while working on the project i did not do anything that could affect mine or anyone else's safety. I sometimes left my water bottle on the table next to the computer, but i made sure it was closed tightly. I did not download any software, because there was no need for it. I also didn't download anything else that can be harmful to the computer. I was cooperative during the project. For example, when someone asked me to do their test then i willingly did theirs and then they also did mine if i asked them to. I helped friends if they asked for it and they helped me back when i needed it. I think that i respected others, because i didn't interrupt during presentations, did not disturb anyone unless i needed help when they were working, and i tried to be helpful whenever i could.

Pictures

Test

Questions
Kyu
Urangoo
Badmaa
Why did I do shoe prints?

yes
Yes
Yes
Why did I use the sticks as my hair?

Yes
No
Yes
Why did I paint half my face black?

No
No
Yes
Why do I have 4 different flags as my shirt?

Yes
yes
Yes
Why is the background blue?

no
no
yes


These are the results of my test. The precentage of correct answer was around 66 percent. I think that my artwork does clearly represent me, because i did have some thing that people in my class might not even know. Most of the questions, that i found easy to answer, were correct. One media was too hard for anyone, because there is no possible way of anyone knowing the answer. That was about my background. The asnwer was that it reminded me of something, but i didnt tell anyone about it so no one can know.

Criterion E

Criterion A: Investigation
For the investigation, we were supposed to write the process of how we started out our artwork. We had to include the media for the artwork we were going to use, how the medias represent us, how we edited our photos on the editing programs online.
I basically wrote all of these things that we should have done. Maybe i could have tried to make it more specific or detailed. I also could have spent more time on describing the editing of my photos, because i think that i started off talking about the artwork and nothing to do with IT.

Criterion B: Design
In Design, we were supposed to make a range of designs, about 4 or more to get a good grade, write out design specifications - the ones we wrote in class and some of our own, and then evaluate each picture to the design specifications. We also were meant to write why we chose the final picture that we chose.
I had 4 different designs, some of which i had to do after picking the final one i was going to use for the project. After doing the designs i wrote my designs specifications and evaluated each design to the specifications and i think i clearly stated why i chose my final work.
I could have spent more time on the evaluation to the design specifications, but overall i think that i did a good job on those.

Criterion D: Create
For create, we were meant to write up the process of how we did our artwork. We should include some problems or difficulties we had while writing, what we learnt, and similar questions like these.
I think that i answered all of the questions or most of them that were there. I tried to include the whole process that i went through with a lot of details.
I think that if i could improve on writing the process more detailed and organized. After writing around 500 words i realized i wanted to add something to it, but i could add it to the place i wanted to so i had to put it later in the text. That's why it is pretty unorganized.

Presentation
For the presentation, i think i talked about everything that was mentioned on the grading criteria sheet we got. I think i could have went into more depth with the process of how i got my artwork, but looking back at everyone else's presentations, no one really went that deep either. No one had any questions, because i probably answered everything during the presentation. Kyu had the only question i think, but he started talking about all my hidden meaning that i didn't even notice, which took him like 5 minutes, but it was funny. I never thought that anyone could come up with so many hidden meaning in my artwork except for me, but Kyu just had way too many ideas....ha ha. I think that the only problem or the thing i could have improved on is talking in more depth about the process and things, but i don't think it was necessary, because it would take at least 30 minutes to explain the process, which none of us had. I briefly talked about what being a risk taker means to me, but again not in much depth. It would take too much time to explain everything. I explained all the meanings of the medias i used and i hope i explained it clearly. I talked about how my test went and if it was accurate. I do think that my test was pretty accurate. One thing i forgot to mention there was the result of my testing were 66 percent correct, so i think that justifies how correct or accurate my test is. I would say for testing an artwork on how different medias represent us that was quite good result. I also could have talked about what kind of questions i asked during my test, but it was basically questions on how this media represents me oh how this part of the artwork represents me, so there werent any special questions that have nothing to do with my artwork there.

Criterion D

After tracing my final picture on paper, we started working on it in art class. At that point i still didn't decide what media i should use, so for about ten minutes of thinking i came up with some media i could use. Ms. Sudra has yellow sticks, which i thought would be good for my hair. She then helped me decide how to do my background also. She said that i could use a sponge to give it the same effect as on the photo. When i actually got to doing that part of the work the sponges weren't available so i used a small towel. After finishing the background i painted the soles of my shoes black and printed each side of the shoe next to my head. The shoes were basketball shoes. I painted half of my face black and decided to leave the other half white. When i first thought about doing that i didn't know how that could represent me, but when i thought about it, it shows that i am kind of half black as in race. I lived in Africa for 2 years, i listen to hip-hop mostly and i like basketball. I am not trying to stereotype races of people, but usually when people think of someone who listens to hip-hop, the person would be black. If you think of the best basketball players in the world, they are black. So that is the reason for half of my face being black. For my shirt, again with Ms. Sudra's help, i chose to do the flags of the countries i lived in so far - China, Czech Republic, Zimbabwe, and Mongolia. I finished most of the artwork by now, i just need to finish the painting of the flags. I didn't come across any problems during the time i was working on it, except for not knowing what media to use. I still want to decide what to use for the other half of my face, if i will use anything, because i accidentally painted a bit of my face, the white part, blue so i could leave it like that, paint it white, or find another media i could use. I don't really want to use another media, because i think the black and white face looks pretty good and there is nothing else i could find that might represent me that i can put on that might look good.

29/09/09
Last art class on Friday, i finished my final artwork. I think it took me 3-4 art classes, which might seem like a short time compared to other students, but i don't think i needed to spend a lot of time on it. The medias weren't anything complicated, so maybe that's why it didn't take a long time. I think that i learnt or experienced using different media and that using all of them together might not look that bad. I usually thought that using variations of medias in one artwork was a bad idea, because it would ruin the whole work, but now i know that i doesn't. It actually is something new and looks good, unless you overuse medias. I think that my work is a lot different from any other students work, because some people i saw used completely different medias, and some people, according to me overused the medias and made it too crazy. The easiest part i think was to paint the black part of my face. The hardest part, not actually that hard, was probably painting in the flags, because i had to be accurate on the detailed parts for the Mongolian flag for example. Ms. Sudra helped me a lot, she gave me ideas for my background and shirt, which is most of the artwork. I didn't make any changes in the artwork, only using different media for my background and instead of printing out the flags of countries and gluing them on i drew them and painted them. If i were supposed to describe my artwork, it wouldn't be so hard, because it probably would be easy to picture, since it is nothing unusual or crazy. I would probably say picture a guy with blond hair, but change the hair to yellow wooden sticks. Then i would describe the colors i used, which isn't that hard to picture. I would not be able to help him/her picture the print of my shoes exactly, but kind of an abstract view of where the shoes are. I wasn't inspired by any artists, because the PowerPoint we watched from Ms. Sudra had complicated medias like chocolate, sugar or string. I would use these medias, but for me it is too messy to use and if i make a mistake, which shouldn't be hard to do, i would have to start over or deal with it, but if i did make a mistake i wouldn't like my artwork anymore, which would make me want to do another one. Overall i think that this project was quite fun, because we first of all could pick how we want to do the artwork and what media to use to make it. The IT part was also fun, because i have always loved editing photos on the computer, especially using Photoshop. I would recommend for teachers to extend this project a bit more and maybe do sequels to these works or just have more pictures, because i think that this project was kind of rushed and we didn't get to spend too much time on it so maybe by doing more artworks would give us more results and we might have a different view of the project. I would definitely like to do another project like this, especially if they are interdisciplinary projects. Working on the same thing in two classes is according to me better, because we wont forget what we did and we are working on the same project, but doing something different in each class at the same time. I think that this project will be good to use for the next years grade ten and hopefully they will like it as much as i did.

Criterion B

Design Specifications

- multi media

- technology

-photo of self

-express self

-Shouldn't go lower than hips

-Should look a lot different from the original photo

-Shouldn't be changed too much so you can recognize the person

-Color of the whole photo should be altered at least a little bit

Design 1

IT used multi media, technology was used and it is a photo of me. It expresses me showing that i like basketball and thats about it. It does not go lower than the hips. Looks a lot different from the original photo, which i cant access now so i will add it later. It is not changed too much so it is easy to recognize me. The color is change from colored to black and white. This is the picture i chose to be my final design and the picture i want to draw in art. It fits the design specifications perfectly and i liked it the most out of all the other altered pictures. It also most represents me, because of the basketball. Design 4 is similar to this one. I would have picked it, but i would have to use too many different medias and then it wouldn't look nice.

Design 2

It used multi media, technology was used and it is a photo of me. It expresses me in a way showing that i like to go out and have fun with my friends. It does go lower than hips, but i am sitting so it would be ok. It does look a lot different from the original photo, especially the color. If it was changed even more it would be too much so that is the limit to how much altered my photos should be. The colors are altered a lot and it looks nice.

Design 3

This design has used only one media, coloring it all yellow. It is a photo of self and used technology. It doesn't really express myself at all. I doesn't go lower than the hips. It doesn't look too different from the original photo, only the color is changed to yellowish but nothing else. It is easy to recognize myself. The color is fully altered.

Design 4

It used different medias, it is a photo of self and technology was used. It expresses me, because i love basketball and shows that i can palm the ball which was my goal for a long time. It is lower than hips. It is similar to the original and isn't too much altered so i can recognize myself. The color is black and white. I wanted to use this picture as my final one, but when i thought about how much media i would have to use i decided to do design 1.

Criterion A

Today in IT class we were taking our photos, photos that somehow represent us, and using them for our new project - Portraiture Technology. This project is also mixed with our art class. We took the photos, because we will be "playing" with them on different photo programs. The best program is Photoshop, but for now we are going to use online programs like picnik.com or flauntr.com, because Photoshop is not installed on our computers yet. On the day we were taking pictures, I had no idea what I was going to do, so I waited till everyone was done with their pictures, and then I still didn't decide what I was going to do. Elise and Sonya then had an idea what I could do. They went to get 2 basketballs from Mr. Ricketts. The photo represents me, because I love basketball and also the picture looked like a picture of an actor in One Tree Hill, which is an awesome TV show. For the homework, I didn't do it, because there was a problem with the name of the picture and the actual picture. They got mixed up, so I sent pictures of someone else to my email. I could have chosen some of my pictures from facebook, but those didn't really represent me in any way, because they were just plane, boring pictures. The reason why we are doing this is to do one unit in two classes. In IT we will just modify the picture using the programs I mentioned earlier and in art we will make an artwork using materials that represent us. Ms. Wilson showed us her artwork and she used nail polish, because she loves nail polish. She also cut out small pieces of newspaper that actually mean something to her, like an article on Venus Williams, because that's her idol. So we will be doing these things in these two classes for now. For the It part of the project, I never used any online photo editors, so this is completely new to me. I used a lot of adobe, because my old teacher in Zimbabwe used to love adobe and made us work with it for so long. I really wanted to use adobe on this, because it is the best program for these types of projects. I looked at other peoples edited photos and I wasn’t really impressed. Not that they were bad, just that they were basically the same photos just the saturation, contrast and colors were changed. In adobe, when I play with photos, I always liquefy the photos and then us all the things that are available to me. When i am going to start editing my photo i will try to make it quite interesting and fun to look at. Again, i never used these online photo editors so i dont know what to expect and what tools i will be able to use. I hope it is a lot like photoshop or atleast most of the fun thigns in photoshop.

Now i finished editing my photo. The programs are kind of primitiv, but i didnt expect anything like photoshop anyways. I used almost all the editing options there were, but it didnt make any big changes. I just changed the saturation, contrast and strength. For the AOI, i think that we used Human Ingenuity, because we actually created a piece of work. Part of the work was taking the picture and the other part was midifying it. We could modify it in any way we wanted to. The creation is a work of art made of any media we chose. This is the only AOI i think we used.

10/09/09

Today we are starting to draw our edited photos on paper. Badmaa is drawing her picture first so now i am waiting until she is done. I decided to not draw the complete picture, just the part on top of the basketball, because it is too much and i only want my face there.

15/09/09

Test

After finishing the project, i will ask atleast 3 people to look at my final work and tell me why they think i used a certain material. Basically, if i used yellow sticks for my hair the person might answer that i used it because my hair is blond, which is right. Another example, i will use 4 flags of the countries that i lived in and make it my shirt. So the person should answer that i used the flags, because i lived in those countries. If people guess atleast more than 50 percent of the questions right, then i think my artwork passed my test. If the people get less than i must have chosen materials that either dont really represent me or i never told anyone i like something that i used.

Design Specifications

- multi media

- technology

-photo of self

-express self

-Shouldnt go lower than hips

-Should look a lot different from the original photo

-Shouldnt be changed too much so you can recognize the person

-Color of the whole photo should be altered atleast a little bit

For the research, for art we researched 2 artists. One mixed media artist and one portrait artist. I chose Van Gogh and the portrait artist and Jim McNitt does mixed media. After writing a short description of the artists life, we picked a picture for each artist and described it in any way we can (composition, color, media, etc.)

Citations

"McNitt Jim." www.wikipedia.org. 27 8 2009. Web. 15 Sep 2009. .

Sudra, Anna. Art lecture. International SChool of Ulaanbaatar. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 3 Sep. 2009.

Sudra, Anna. "Portraiture Technology." Powerpoint presentation for MYP Visula Arts, International School of Ulaanbaatar. Sep. 2009.

Gogh, Vincent van. "Van Gogh self portrait."<

http://haysvillelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/van-gogh-self-portrait.jpg>

McNitt, Jim. "File:Big City Angel Detail.jpg."

I think that the sources that i have done by Ms. Sudra are completely reliable. This time i trust wikipedia, because the person cited all of his work. The picture sources, i believe, are also reliable, because the Van Gogh picture i already know what it looks like so it cannot be wrong and the Jim McNitt picture is on wikipedia with the sources cited.

In the actual artwork in art class, i decided to use 3-4 different types of media. For my hair and eyebrows, i will use small wooden sticks. For a part of my face i will use paint and make it all black and the other part of the face i am not sure yet......probably sand, but i dont know where to get it. For the background i am going to use a sponge dipped in blue paint to give it a unusual look like on the picture and after that i am going to dip my basketball shoe in black paint and make a shoe print on each side of my face, but not on the face. For my shirt i will have 4 different flags of the countries that i have lived in - China, Czech Republic, Zimbabwe and Mongolia. For the mouth i will use colored red sticks and my eyes wont have anything at all.

A portrait is an artwork that is on a person. It could be a self-portrait, which is the artist painting himself/herself. A portrait is usually an artist drawing someone else. As our old art teacher used to say "For something to be a portrait, it needs to have atleast one eye in it."