Blog 4
Reading through Agata’s third blog post, I can see that she has had a real connection with her better lives option. This is highlighted through the blog posts when she discusses how she was not too sure on whether she would be good at it. But with the tutor’s enthusiasm for the subject, she became less intimidated about being good at it and concluded that her skills would be a work in progress. To me this displays a journey with the subject area that has had a positive outcome on the ways in which she may use the skills she learned in the future.
Agata used interesting ways of explaining the prosthetics in practical terms. She describes the bruise and the effort that went into creating it so that it appeared real with a story of its own, yet also shows what areas she felt weaker in and what areas she felt stronger in. For example: she preferred doing the freckles over the bruises, however she wrote about how not being so good in a certain area did not demotivate her. This proves to me that she had a positive outcome from doing the better lives course. Additionally, Agata considers her classmates developments in her blog post and how it was interesting to see other people develop at different speeds but remains confident in her own practice without being concerned or intimidated.
When discussing the final outcome, it was nice to see that Agata had researched into environmental damage to get inspiration for her to create a character. It shows that she has knowledge about sustainability and how she is aware of it in prosthetic makeup. However, in Agata’s blog post there seems to be an absence of discussion about the other two themes, as she focuses only on sustainability. I understand that this is because her outcome related most to the theme of sustainability, yet it would have been interesting if she could have discussed further the meanings behind the three different sections that she had learned about: evolution adaptation, ecological balance, and personal identity. One way in which she could have done this would have been if she explored how prosthetics such as bruises and freckles related to the three themes in any way. For example: the theme of diversity in ‘evolution adaptation’ could relate to freckles being caused by over exposure to sunlight, and possibly how a character could be created in this theme with those prosthetic effects. In terms of social responsibility in ‘personal identity’, this could have been conveyed in a character through the bruising prosthetics and how elements of their life created this personal identity with bruises.
Overall, I think Agata did an in-depth and detailed blog post about her experience with makeup and hair for performance and how her development in the subject area is ongoing. Despite this, the themes of diversity and social responsibility could have been discussed more in the blog post and related back to what practical skills she had learned.
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