cosmetic surgery

I want to aim my brief at a young audience based around the idea of cosmetic surgery, illustrating self enhancement. These are some techniques that i've tired out, by building up materials, which is something that really interested me when working on previous projects. 

The idea of picking up on cosmetic surgery is because I cant find any current illustrations on the subject, im starting to think this could be because its hard to not sway the audience either for or against surgery, maybe im taking on to much of a challenge?!

Orlan

http://www.orlan.net/

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ecook/courses/eng114em/surgeries.htm

I herd about Orlan a while ago now and I still find pictures of her work hard to look at, she's an artist who used her own body to basically form the art, creating video performances of the surgery. Both of these links explain her and her reasons behind it a bit more. As its in french im a bit confused to if the images above are her own work, but I think they are. They both use the style of layering and although the top image is in 2D the sense of texture is still really there. Maybe this would be the way for me to go if I want to make my product easy to reproduce?

dove evolution

I saw this video in a lecture and although I no it happens, I didn't realise just how much editing is done to completely change the original person. I think the line at the end "no wondered our perception of beauty is distorted" is almost the most powerful part of the campaign, I think its only because the media shows pictures like the final image that people are constantly trying to be perfect when it never really exists, by showing real people with real deformities in my campaign maybe it would change how people feel about themselves too? 

Katie Piper foundation

http://www.katiepiperfoundation.org.uk/

Her campaign is trying to raise money for an advanced rehabilitation and burns clinic in the UK. If  I can create hard hitting posters (and other products) to work a long with this idea of fundraising I feel like I can give a lot to this brief because its real and happening right now, and because its currently in the media im hoping the influence I get from it will come through in my work.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/katie-my-beautiful-face/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/katie-my-beautiful-friends/episode-guide/series-1

After watching both of these episodes I've narrowed my idea down a lot more, if I focus on Katie Pipers actual campaign and foundation I could produce products like posters and books to be given to schools to explain her story or something to help explain why disfigurement shouldn't be looked at so cruelly?

just remembered another programme that I watched recently that covers the same ideas...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/beauty-the-beast-ugly-face-of-prejudice

media research (self initiated)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3496582/Glamour-girls-Katie-Piper-and-Katie-Price.html

I found this article really interesting, and seemed really perfect for influencing my work. When you read the viewing and selling figures of both there books I realised that its more the media that enhances how we look at disfigurements than the public themselves...if Katie Piper was on the front of most magazines each week wouldn't it make it a lot easier for children to accept people for who they are and not look at people differently because they just don't understand.

self initiated research

I really enjoyed the reinventing illustration brief because I chose to work in 3d I found a whole different side to illustration that I hadn't considered before. I've been thinking about working in  a similar way for this project too, but I really want to think about my time management too, and working in 3d took a lot longer than I thought (something I really don't want to risk when its so close to the assessment deadline!)  

I need to consider the product and its audience straight away. theres so much debate about surgery if I am it at a younger audience then it would be catching them before there lead down looking at magazines etc and being really influenced by the media. maybe 9-13...im not sure if this it too late because there already at secondary school?! but if I go younger im worried I will end up making it to childish, thinking 6 is too young for shock tactics! 

- am I going for the cosmetic surgery or the reconstructive side....think I will be taking on too much and sending out a mixed message if I don't decide, also if it's cosmetic is it pro or con....