Self Directed Project

I have started my Self Directed Project and have a number of ideas. I would like to focus on portraiture and have thought about continuing an A level project about my transition through childhood and carrying that on into university life.

I am also toying around with the idea of preconceptions and first impressions and how people may "judge a book by its cover". I have thought about maybe creating portraits of people in the way I first saw them or how I felt about them having first met them.

On the flip-side of this I have considered the idea of creating some self portraits based around people's preconceptions or first impressions of me. To carry this through I need people's opinions on me, so I'm planning on putting questionnaires through a number of doors at my halls of residence. This is my questionnaire. If you would like to fill it in there that would be a great help to me as the more information I get back the better I can build up this preconceptual or "fictional" self portrait.

Questionnaire

Please be totally honest.

What do you think of the person above? .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Can you guess this person’s interests? Please list. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

What kind of person do you think they are from looking at the picture? .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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What do you think are this person’s strengths and weaknesses?

Strengths ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Weaknesses ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

What do you think are this person’s hopes and fears?

Hopes .................................................................................................................................................................................

Fears .................................................................................................................................................................................

Anything else to say about this person? ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Thank you for filling in the questionnaire. It would be a great help if you could write your house number on it and return it to House 17. Thank you.

I'll post back with updates when this project gets some momentum.