Term 1/a - 2020–2021
Project Overview
Over the 6 weeks of the first half term of 2020-21, REAL School students designed and built their own masks that represented them during the campfire ritual at the overnight camp they organised themselves.
Learning Goals
I can:
Understand the difference between 2D and 3D planning and executing
Imagine my mask going from concrete to abstract
Express myself with techniques that make me feel confident while creating my self-portrait
Value Collaboration
Combine different images to make a new one
Explore and find materials I like and need to work with
Understand and use my project process to build my mask
Curate my work for an exhibition
Use my journal to record my planning process
The Process
1. Dream: Concept + Thinking in 2D
Bringing in masks, discovering why and how people use them
Tracing our facial features with organic and geometric elements to reimagine how a face should look like
2. Plan-Create: Thinking in 3D
Tracing our faces by touching, discovering its 3D-ness, moving out from the realistic to discovering abstract facial features
Creating the first 3D model of the masks
+ Feedback session
3. ReDo: Material Bank + Assembling
Experimenting with combinations, techniques, limits of different materials. Deciding on the structure and the skin of the mask and updating the prototype
Feedback session on the prototype, redrafting and assembling the final version of the mask
4. Share
Exposing our masks to others, planning how to exhibit our work to make it an interactive experience
Check out all the other projects REAL School students have worked on during the first half term of 2020-21 in this half-term booklet.
