Here is a photo of my work, which I will bring to school tomorrow:
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
HW 42 - Pregnancy & birth culminating project
For my culminating project I chose to visually present the process of giving birth, from first contractions up to when the baby is finally born. I drew labor as a timeline and added explanations and real life stories along the sides.
Here is a photo of my work, which I will bring to school tomorrow:
Here is a photo of my work, which I will bring to school tomorrow:
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I really liked the visual representation, of when the labor period was separated into Caesarean and natural birth. I also liked the personal connections throughout the project, those of your own birth and delivery. I thought you put quite a lot of effort into the entire project, which made the poster very organised and easy to understand.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgSAEFQLdw this is my link
ReplyDeleteMartyna,
ReplyDeleteI thought your presentation/poster was awesome. The colors did birth justice as it is truly a miracle. You draw an abstract representation of birth and represent the usual boring phrases, "as the birth progressed, the contractions get stronger" with a red tube that zig zags and gets bigger as it progresses to the right of the poster. You strive to create a visual of the process of birth with the help of anecdotes from your family friend. You clearly describe what Pitocin, Cesarean Section, and Epidurals are capable of doing.
I appreciate that you chose to do something creative. I have not yet seen anyone make a poster, even when the option was available. The visuals really help further your story/timeline. The timeline was helpful and extremely structured. I value the fact that you were able to make the clear connections between your story and drawings.
Your project matters to me because I am a woman, capable of giving birth. Once I am old enough, I will want to have a baby. It's important, to me, to know what the effects of pitocin are and the possible complications of a cesarean section. This knowledge would be helpful in the event that I want to create a birth plan or acknowledge when my obstetrician or midwife makes a suggestion rather than thinking it was a necessary course of action to take.
I wish you had gone into more depth about how investigating birth was important to you. Although it was easy to understand the ideas you were trying to get across, I could not identify the intent in your choosing to do this project.
Great Work! I wish I could have done something like this to make my project more aesthetically pleasing.
Bianca
I like the idea of visualizing the process of giving birth. Your concept is to show the growing tension throughout time. This may help people who were not (or will never be) directly involved in the process to imagine what the whole process looks like.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious, but I have to mention, that your stories are very personal to me. They gave me an opportunity to recall everything once again. I must say I was lucky that everything went so smoothly for me.
I think that one of the aspects which may have been worth mentioning is that the mother should always concentrate not on her own pain but on the safe delivery of her baby. She should always bear in mind that it is more difficult for the baby than for the mom. Inside the womb, a baby feels safe and cozy. It is warm, the light is soft, it hears only soothing sounds of the intestines and the mother's heartbeat. Then, all of a sudden, something starts to happen that is intended to change everything. Water disappears, contractions push and the baby gets tightly squeezed. While outside, it has to breath by itself, it is suddenly surrounded by bright light, noise, and lots of fuss.
There are big hands that touching and examining it. The air and temperature seem very strange. Even fabric and beds are uncomfortable. If such aspects are taken into consideration by the mom, the baby is not a trouble and pain paker, but is a little being which needs a lot of help. This is a psychological issue which must be emphasized while a pregnant mom is preparing herself for giving birth.
ReplyDeleteTHANKYOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING MY VIDEO! you are right, it did take alot of working to make the movie but I wouldnt say skill that much, I just used Imovie on my mac computer and was able to make it, it is not that complicated! I actually learned alot about how to make the movie while i was doing. GREAT! I wanted to break-up my clips to keep people interested, but also to have the animal and human sex really integrated. on the other hand I didnt really intend it to be humans versus animals, I was trying to say that we are animals and that we need to be more savage, I agree with you that many teens dont look for love, but I agree sometimes, I think our society takes sex to seriously and its nice to follow ones instics and be wild, BUTTTTT dont get me wrong there is a lot of emotion in sex for humans. I wonder if it is the same for the animals, based on the footage it seems like that for some but not for all.. Like the lepoards, they seem to be making "love" in my opinon. I think its great though that you were able to find your own message from my movie that was important to you. I think art is about having the viewer relate in their own personal way, not the way the artist "intends" so i like that. ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU, you could be making movies too, IN NO TIME !!! asalamalakum
ReplyDeleteBY THE WAY I LOVE YOUR ARRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Martyna,
ReplyDeleteYour project visually depicted the interventions and interesting facts that happen immediately before and during birth. I was very impressed that not only you went outside the recommended ideas for a project but also that you did it so well. You had a collage that was easy to comprehend, creative and still educational. This was one of the best projects that I saw because of this, it is important to not only learn something but in a way you enjoy, that if a subject may be boring to you can work your own wonders to engage yourself and others. Your way of showing contractions tied into the facts you showed, but perhaps you could take out the text from the direct visual and list those as a side text that summarizes the meaning and such of the work, but that’s only my thoughts. Your project was truly interesting.
Best,
john