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Blog 4- Peer Review

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Better lives blog post 2 – Impact of Better lives lectures on my courses
In this blog post, Bianca talks about how her work during the better lives unit will shape her future learning. I feel that she has demonstrated a clear understanding of the better lives themes by explaining how she will put those themes into practice within her makeup, as well as gaining knowledge for the things she didn’t think about before. Bianca talks about how she has learnt to become more diverse within culture, explaining that she no longer wants to base anything off a stereotype, but she is inspired to develop her work in order for it to be more culturally diverse. Diversity being one of the key better lives themes, this shows to me that Bianca has a clear understanding of how she can better her work in the future which is a positive to her learning within this unit. She has shown an understanding of the themes within diversity and in doing so she’s stated not only what she will think about in the future, but how she will better her work to make it more diverse. In my opinion diversity is one of the most important themes when it comes to the creative industry, therefore once you have an understanding of how to make your work more diverse, the more people will be interested In the work. I believe that Bianca has demonstrated this within her work here. Later in her blog post, she mentioned the nature lecture and how the themes within that has changed her perspective on how she is going to see and use different products. Bianca mentioned that she will look into different products more to gain an understanding of what is suitable and what is not. This was because she explored more about the environment and certain materials that would be more sustainable for the earth. In doing so, I believe she has demonstrated the key theme of sustainability within her work, mainly because she stated that in the future, how she will look into and change if need be the products that she uses. This means that her makeup kit and work will become more sustainable which will not only help the environment, but also attract more clients/ work for her as this is something people look for sometimes. Building a more sustainable environment is very important because it helps people to live with resources making sure they have a good use and live within a community where less materials get wasted which helps the environment. Bianca has shown an understanding of this within her work because she is changing her products within her makeup kit. Lastly, I feel that one key theme within better lives that could’ve been talked about more is social responsibility. Bianca did somewhat show an understanding of social responsibility by learning how to be more sustainable within her products. However, she could have talked about this a bit more by explaining how she will take social responsibility into consideration to better her work in the future. 
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Blog post 2, Jenna brown

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Within the better lives unit, there have been many different and diverse topics talked about which has opened me up to new things such as my passions for subjects elsewhere from my chosen course. Because this is a new thing for me and I haven’t studied or learnt in this way perviously coming from a school and college background, it has been difficult to adjust to the changes however, it has engaged me even more into learning new things as I have enjoyed every lecture and seminar I have been to. This pushes and drives me to excitement within future work and I am happy with this unit. In the representation lecture that I watched for my first blog, She talked about there being this image of one specific vision that everyone idolises and therefore causes conflict within everyday society. This is because not everyone looks the same which leads to the point of not everyone is going to look like the “perfect vision of beautiful”. In this lecture She then went on to talk about diversity within fashion and she went on to say something that really interested me “Fashion isn’t just the clothes we put on our body, Fashion is our interaction with everything” This was very important to me when she said it because not many people within society realise how much fashion influences us everyday. This interested me because it showed me the influence that is put on fashion and it all comes down to a specific idolised look that causes controversy. To link this strategy to my contemporary portrait photography, I wanted to photograph different portraits following on from the concept of expression and how someone feels by their appearance. I want to portray the concept of anxiety within my photography. I will photograph my model in different settings showing different expressions. One will be a photograph showing her looking into the mirror to show imagery of how in modern day, the way you look can cause some anxiety within. I will include different facial expressions in each picture to emphasise the concept of how the model feels In the photograph. This will ensure the image speaks to people in ways that is relatable as well as linking back to some of the better lives themes within fashion, such as expression and representation. Portrait photography I chose for different reasons, one being the fact that I have past experiences with photography from my GCSE exams. This helps me to understand the relevant subjects spoken about within this unit and to therefore further my skills. From studying photography at school, I learnt back then that I enjoyed doing the work as it was all in my best interest, therefore I know that I will very much enjoy picking this for better lives. I also wanted to bring back my knowledge in order to further my skills within photography as this would be relevant to my prosthetics and makeup course when taking pictures of my practical work. 

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Better lives lecture 10, Representation.

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Within this lecture, there were different topics she talked about within the fashion industry which inspired me to think and explore specific topics a bit more. Watching this lecture opened me up to different theories and strategies exploring culture and how it is seen through many different people. I believe everyone has different opinions and therefore, see things differently which is a huge part of the way we live in society today. It has a large influence on the challenges people face on a daily basis along with conflicts within people and fashion. But it also has positivity elements as everyone is Individual in who they are, where they’re from, and what they look like so representing yourself within fashion is a very important thing.

She talked about there being this image of one specific vision that everyone idolises and therefore causes conflict within everyday people. This is because not everyone looks the same which leads to the point of not everyone is going to look like the “perfect vision of society”.In this lecture She then went on to talk about diversity within fashion and she went on to say something that really interested me “Fashion isn’t just the clothes we put on our body, Fashion is our interaction with everything” This was very important to me when she said it because not many people within society realise how much fashion influences us everyday. This interested me as it showed me the power and influence that is put on fashion and it all comes down to a specific idolised look that causes controversy. As time has passed, things have changed which has led to more cultures and different beliefs being acknowledged within the industry, which brings more diversity to our lives. This is a very positive outcome as we’re accepting more and more and if we keep changing our perspective of fashion itself, we could start to change it into something with much more positivity than it already has. She then followed on to talk about outrage marketing and how people publish certain images and designs which are socially and culturally unacceptable, purely to attract attention to themselves. This causes conflict and to me is a very important subject which should be changed. This has inspired me in many different ways and got me thinking how and why we got here. We started without covering our bodies at all when conflict and fashion wasn’t relevant. And now we are living a life where some of our every day thoughts and struggles are revolved around the way we look or how we dress our bodies.

In conclusion, this lecture inspired me a lot to think about development within the fashion industry and how cultural appropriation is still being accepted. It has made me realise how badly this could affect people and how lucky some other people are. But it also led me to believe that in the future, fashion should become much more positive as well as accepting to society. 

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