Pitch & Brief
BA Illustration Mural ‘Make your mark on BA Illustration’ The Brief: As you know we have been running workshops every Tuesday evening but aside from this we are looking to bring all course levels together. We would like to give the opportunity for students to engage on a creative and personal level to create an attractive collaborative wall art piece. The mural would be a talking point for visitors and potential students wishing to attend the college and showcase the talent that BA Illustration has to offer. It is a great way to allow current students to share ideas and interact with different years, breaking down barriers and avoiding an ‘us’ and ‘them’ mentality. Students will work together to create a theme, designate colour schemes and combine ideas effectively to carry out a student led project. Everyone from the course is welcome to get involved and all voices will be heard. Students who are interested should meet on Tuesday 28th March at 3.30pm to set up initial ideas and discuss the plan further. Deadline: The painting of the mural will take place at the end of May/early June, hopefully in time for the end of year show. The brief has already gathered a lot of interest from a range of students from all years, so don’t miss out on this great opportunity! If you are interested in participating in this brief the meetings each week will be mandatory, although this is a platform set up by and for students, it should be treated as a professional brief and it will be pitched to the university. If you have any queries, don’t hesitate to come and find us in the studio or please contact us on: af251734@students.leeds-art.ac.uk tr256553@students.leeds-art.ac.uk sp256339@students.leeds-art.ac.uk ec255556@students.leeds-art.ac.uk Thanks, Alice, Sophie, Ellie and Tyler
Illustration Mural What we aim to do • We aim to produce a brief that will give Level 4, 5 and 6 illustration students and alumni (student president), the opportunity to collaborate on an Illustrated mural that will be situated in the Illustration department. • The mural will hang on the wall opposite the sign up sheets in the corridor. We aim to do this by making the mural on a wooden panel that will hang up onto the space available. • The brief will be self directed by the students participating, giving them a sense of independence and allowing them to make important decisions regarding the theme and colour palette, which will have to be carefully considered, like a professional brief. We will only be acting as a platform to give the students the opportunity, but will overlook the decisions, to make sure the decisions and designs are appropriate before we present the final piece to the programme leader. • The mural will incorporate the designs of each student involved, instead of one student’s selected design, so they will have to work together as a group to make a cohesive design. Although the composition might be put together digitally, the mural itself will be analogue. • We will hold weekly meetings for people who are interested to meet and discuss how they want to approach the brief and work together as a big team. These meetings will be after timetabled sessions, so will not get in the way of the student’s work, and we will organize the final painting of the mural to be carried out after everyone’s final deadline this year and will be done in groups so the students won’t feel under pressure with too much work alongside their coursework. • We also will have the advice of Adam (Student President), who has experience of working collaboratively to make a piece of work. • With weekly meetings of planning and development, we aim to produce the final artwork after the last deadlines in May and complete before the end of year show. • During the first meeting will be a presentation that includes examples of illustrated murals that will hopefully inspire the participants to think of themes and things to consider. • We will also put up a plaque with everyone’s names and personal websites etc. so it will advertise the participants even when they have left university How it will benefit the College/students • It will be a great talking point for visitors and potential new students arriving on the course. • It will showcase the talent that has come from this course since it has started in the last four years. • It will be the main piece of Illustration in the department and will brighten it up a bit.