How I developed my idea from slave labour in the past to sweatshop labour in the present.

I started off with a piece that was going to be about how people of black origin were forced to work and how they did not have a say and could not do anything about it, i therefore developed my idea to how children in 2010 are forced to work for major brands in poor communities. I developed my idea to this because i felt like that i could relate to it more because i have been a young child and could not imagine having to work in a sweatshop.

Explanation Of one of my quotes.

'Slave trade past or present' shows the link between slavery when blacks were shipped out of their country and forced to work for nothing, and how now in 2010 children are being forced to work in sweatshops for major brands for literally nothing.

My other final peice.

This piece represent how major brands use children to obtain maximum profit, even if it takes lives.

One of my Final peices.

This piece represents the unfairness and inhumaness of child labour, and to support this i used my own quotes

More of my own quotes.

I should be holding a pencil not a needle
Major brands, what is the price of a clean conscious ?

Picture of me.

This is a picture of me with my target grade and my predicted grade.

My brands face

this is the face that I made out of major brands. This represents the major brands that use sweat shops to make maximum profit.

My own quotations about sweatshops.

'Slave trade a past or reality ?'

'Sweat shops, jobs or conscription?'

'Is the price of a life worth the profit?'

My mock up piece of work.

My updated plan

This is my updated plan for my project.

This was my original plan, but i have decided to develop it so that i do two or three posters bout sweat shops and modern day slavery, and use my own quotations.

11 facts about sweat shops

1. Sweatshop workers earn as little as ½ to ¼ of what they need to provide for basic nutrition, shelter, energy, clothing, education and transportation.
2. In order to meet the basic nutritional needs of their families, sweatshop workers spend between 50% to 75% of their income on food alone.
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4. Almost 75% of the retail price of a garment is pure profit for the manufacturer and retailer.
5. For less than 1% of Nike’s advertising budget, wages could be doubled for all workers making Nike university clothing.
6. While the garment industry is notorious for their involvement in the sweatshop industry, they aren’t the only culprits. Common sweatshop goods include tires, auto parts, shoes, toys, computer parts, electronics, and nearly every other kind of manufactured good.
7. The U.S. government often gives foreign aid to those same countries whose poverty is directly linked to exploitation by US businesses operating abroad.
8. A recent poll showed that 76% of Americans believe that workers should be protected just as corporate trademarks and products are in the global economy.
9. According to the Department of Labor, over 50% of U.S. garment factories are sweatshops. Many sweatshops are run in this country's apparel centers: California, New York, Dallas, Miami and Atlanta.
10. There are probably sweatshops in every country in the world - anywhere where there is a pool of desperate, exploitable workers. Logically, the poorer a country is, the more exploitable its people are. Labor violations are, therefore, especially widespread in third world countries.
11. Many Americans believe the clothing they purchase is manufactured in America. In fact, the majority of private label clothing is manufactured in at least 48 countries around the world, not in the U.S.

I experimented with filters, i did this because different filters cause different views and moods about a certain image.
I used this image because it represents poorness because the person is scavenging a rotten fruit off the floor showing that they could not afford to buy any fresh fruit.

This is part of my experimentation for the development of my project.
I used different methods of getting paint and ink onto pages, for this i used a straw to spray the ink on, and also used letter stamps to get the acrylic paint on.

Link..

This is the link to the video that I made on my work experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-2fTprL5U

Gac Work

Gac Work

Outline of my idea, and where i might end up. (219 Words including 'I&A'

Where I gathered my inspiration and my idea was when we went to a trip too the Pitt Rivers Museum. My idea at the moment is a poacher trap, this is because when I saw this savage object it sprung many questions throughout my head, Some of them were 'Is this humane?' 'Is this to protect or ensure?' and 'Is this against human rights'. Another thing that intrigued me about this object is that when I first glanced at it I originally thought that it was a bear trap, But then I further looked into it and it turned out to be a poacher trap. This then sprung another question in my head 'Should the same trap that is used to capture bears be used on human beings?'

I think that this object will lead me towards and end up in human/animal rights. I think this because this poacher trap brings up so many questions about its humaneness and morales. I also think that this object will make me think more about human rights because of its savageness, this may then lead me onto slavery because when black ethnicity humans were slaves the white were treating them as if they were not human and were lower than whites so this subject could even branch off in many ways.

Memories BrainStorm

Claire Mcewan First version

My initial ideas development

My Initial ideas

Pictures from the pitt rivers museum

The Pitt Rivers museum

Me and my creative and media class went to the Pitt rivers History museum to create and look at memories, this trip was to try and create inspiration and get a better insight on human memories and history.

Our first task was to be split into small groups and seek out an object on the first floor on the museum, We had to determine the origin and the purpose of the object

Our next task was too look around the whole museum and find an object that inspired us and were interested in. This would have to be an object that we were mildly interested in but didn't have to be the main inspiration because we would be later able to branch off in different directions. The object that i chose was a poacher trap, this object interested me, this is because at first I thought that it was for bears, i thought this was inhumane for animals, but to be used for humans was unreal and sinister. A few other questions that sprung to mind was 'what is used now to counter poachers?' and it is a perfectly humane alarm witch just rings at a high level of decibels.

The rhetorical questions that have to be used with my initial ideas are, Should humans be hurt for poaching? Should Humans have the same preventions as animals ?.

Overall i did not think that the Pitt Rivers museum would be interesting at all, but i was surprised because I found the trip very interesting and inspirational and enjoyed it very much.

Meeting John Lockart Over Web cam.

Today in creative media today we met John Lockart over adobe connect. He gave us an insight on what he does.
What John Lockart does is being an artist and working in schools. A few points that he expressed was how he started off with an original idea then expands massively and sometimes his finished product does not come close to his original idea.
What he works in is digital media and physical media, the difference between these two medias is that digital is working with computers and physical is actually making objects.