Concept Board On Attachment

Final Outcome

Today we made two concept boards, one for each word of our themes which is structure and attachment. A concept board is a board which visually displays images of ideas. We was told previously to bring in minimum five images & one text for each word relating to each theme.

I photocopied some images from books in both colour and black and white, and also had images of my own which I took from the objects I previously bought in on Monday.





For my concept board on attachment my images consisted of:

•  An A4 colour photocopy from a book called Insects and Flowers A Biological Partnership of a bee collecting pollen from a flower. I picked this image because it clearly represents the theme of attachment and I love the bright colours.
• A4 black and white photocopy of crystals salt sorrel from a book, which represents both attachment and structure. I found this image very interesting as the range of different shaped and sized structures which are in white against the black background is a great contrast. Crystals are made up from molecules, atoms or ions, this represent the attachment theme.
• A4 up-close photo taken by myself of my floral pencil case which is a personal attachment. 
• On top of the black and white crystal image is a photocopy from another book which is a photo of a beauty treatment with gauze mask representing the attachment females have to staying beautiful. I decided to isolate this image by cutting away the background as the image is so powerful and dominate. I placed it in front of the black and white background slightly of center surrounded by images in colour which allows the image to stand out.  
• I then had three smaller images of photos representing the four basic type of human  attachment which I collected from a book. All four images are the same concepts of a human mouth against an isolating black background. I picked this images as I like the way one colour is used per theme and although all images are very simple they are all very effective and clear. The green themed image shows attachment to alcoholic, The grey themed one shows attachment to drugs/smoking, The purple themed image shows sexual attachment and the red themed image shows attachment to food.
• I also had images of different currency money some of which are from books and the other my own photo, representing the attachment humans have for money and the control it holds.  

I found this task a little difficult as it was my first time making a concept board and as I didn't know beforehand that the images I picked will be used for this task and didn't have enough images to select from. I played around with different concepts I  decided of this one but honestly not sure if I like my final outcome yet. I believe my board clearly shows the theme making it successful, right ? However because I'm not sure if I'm happy with my chosen layout and images so does that still make it successful ? I believe not. But I've learned a lot from the task which will help me when doing this again. For one, next time I need to select a larger range of images and more of a range of sizes so I can have more layout ideas to play with.