| What is a VISUAL DIARY? There are sketchbooks, journals, visual notebooks and visual diaries. Are they all the same or are they all different? The terms are often used interchangeably and there are no clear definitions. One person will say - "I believe a sketchbook is like a diary: personal and to be opened only by the person whose it is, or by invitation. By keeping my sketchbook private I don't inhibit myself by worrying about what people will think about something in it, hold back an idea that might seem foolish if I told someone else, or tear out a sketch that was a disaster." Marion Boddy-Evans is an artist, writer, and photographer South Africa CLICK HERE External website Another person will say - Sketchbooks are as varied as the artists who keep them. They are a repository of ideas, perceptions, inspirational imagery, and graphic experiments. As personal records they afford an intimate glimpse of an artist's visual thinking and reveal aspects of their creative process. Another will say - A Visual Diary is an important and essential part of the process of making artworks (designing). Most artists (designers) keep working diaries and they are used as an important part of the process of generating ideas. Working sketches, notes, design ideas, references and annotations in visual diaries should provide fascinating insights into final works and often, the more in-depth and extensive the research and planning in a journal is, the more successful the resulting artwork (design) will be. In some courses, the VISUAL DIARY or equivalent is compulsory and is assessed. It is an essential means of recording ideas and can be used to describe a journey through a design and chronicle its development. Visual diaries are an individual record of students thinking about and working on ideas they generate from their exploration of a subject matter and their responses to the environment around them. Students record notes, ideas, thought, associations, record research from a range of sources, draw sketches of ideas, storyboard, paste in development sheets, records of trips, graphic organizers, experiment with media and ideas, layout, thumbnails, composition and analyse their subject from different perspectives – self evaluations and reflective thinking. The purpose of visual diaries is to encourage students to use lateral thinking or higher level thinking skills to expand their knowledge and understanding to enhance and expand their creative practices in an informed way. The visual diary becomes a chronological record of their planning, developing, clarifying and refining of ideas prior to making final decisions about style, approach, media and interpretation of the final product to be created and presented. The visual diary becomes an integral part of all planning, thinking and development of ideas and evaluation for every student. It is the visual diary then, that becomes a living and working document for students, and it is expected that students annotate and make changes to the plan as their project progresses (reflective practice). Claire Derham-Cole who felt there was a great need to explore activities that would capture and promote the Maori culture as well as emphasise the use of Te Reo CLICK HERE External website ANNOTATION CLICK HERE |
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