I do like my ideas, but all have various reasons for wanting to do them and not wanting to do them.
Here are a few of my ideas;
Accent Idea:
This is an idea I had about creating a mock TV show of the children's TV programme 'Words and Pictures'.
'Words and Pictures' was a children's TV programme that taught children how to read and write with the (what became well known amongst kids from the 1970s to the present day) 'Magic Pen'. The 'Magic Pen' was an amber colour pen with a light on the end of it, which blinked on when the pen wrote. The 'Magic Pen' would write a letter on a blank, black background in amber and would have running commentry on how to write the letter as the 'Magic Pen' would be writing the letter.
My idea was to do a mock version of this children's TV programme by writing out words how they would be wrote if wrote out how an accent pronounces them. I was also going to create the rest of the show, not just the 'Magic Pen' and also do support work by creating artistic portraits of everyday products with their logo's changed to be wrote how the product is pronounced in an accent.
For example, I'm from Kingston-Upon-Hull. Here is a brief description of the Hull accent (or should I say 'Ull accent?) taken from the Kingston-Upon-Hull wikipedia page;
" The most notable feature of the accent is the strong I-mutation[170] in words like goat, which is [gəʊt] in standard English and [goːt] across most of Yorkshire, becomes [gɵːt] ("geuht") in and around parts of Hull, although there is variation across areas and generations.[171]
In common with much of England (outside of the far north), another feature is dropping the H from the start of words, for example Hull is more often pronounced 'Ull in the city. The vowel in "Hull" is pronounced the same way as in northern English, however, and not as the very short /U/ that exists in Lincolnshire, although the rhythm of the accent is more like that of northern Lincolnshire than that of the rural East Riding, which is perhaps due to migration from Lincolnshire to the city during its industrial growth. One feature that it does share with the surrounding rural area is that an /i/ sound in the middle of a word often becomes an /a:/: for example, "five" may sound like "fahve", "time" like "tahme", etc. "Guide" and "guard" for example are therefore homophones.[172]
The vowel sound in words such as burnt, nurse, first is pronounced with an /E:/ sound, as is also heard in Liverpool and in Middlesbrough, yet this sound is very uncommon in most of Yorkshire. The word pairs spur/spare and fur/fair illustrate this.[173] The generational and/or geographic variation can be heard in word pairs like pork/poke or cork/coke, or hall/hole, which some people pronounce identically while others make a distinction; anyone called "Paul" (for example) soon becomes aware of this (Paul/pole).[174][171]"
and an accent/dialect translator from BBC Humber;
Here
example;
Hull = Arm/Arv
English = I'm/I've
Usage: Arv been brokken into = My house has been burgled.
Armalite = 'My trousers are on fire'.
Hull = Chowatmi
English = Shout at me
Usage: Mimmams gunner chowatmi = I shall be in severe trouble with my mother.
Hull = Dernt nerr
English = I do not know
Hull = Diddy farndowt?
English = Did he find anything?
Hull = Farvs
English = Five pence or pounds
Usage: It dunt tek farvs = This vending machine will not take 5p coins.
Hull = Gerreer
English = Come here or come over
Usage: Oi! Gerreer! = Come this way.
Hull = Goangerided
English = Invitation to play a game of Hide and Seek.
Hull = Goin' on rerd
English = Going shopping
Hull = It's marnanall
English = I am claiming joint-ownership
Hull = Kaylie
English = Sherbert
Hull = Larkin
English = Hanging or playing out
Hull = Mafted/mafting
English = Hot/warm
Usage: I'm mafted = I'm rather hot.
It's mafting = It's rather hot.
Hull = Mimmam
English = My mother
Usage: Mama mia = I'm here Mother.
Yer mammal ner = Your Mother will have the information
Hull = Narn
English = Nine
Usage: Ar gorrit for narn narty narn = It cost me nearly ten pounds.
Me owsiz on fiyer darl narn narn narn = My house is ablaze. Please alert the emergency services.
Hull = Rail
English = Real
Hull = Rurin'
English = Crying
Usage: She's rurin' ered off = She is very upset.
Hull = Tenfoot
English = Alleyway
Hull = Yon side
English = Over there
Here are a couple of example pieces I have produced;
Here is a picture of the 'Magic Pen' writing out a sentence in the way it would be wrote if spelt in the way it is said in a Hull accent.
This is a normal/original Coca-Cola logo;
...and this is the same logo in the way it would look if spelt in the way it is said in a Hull accent;
Another idea of mine was...
www.purchasemyidea.com
Purchasemyidea.com is an idea I have for a website based on selling your ideas to companies. There are plenty of people about that have great ideas, but simply don't have the money nor the resources to make the idea a reality. I thought and wondered how many great ideas maybe havn't happened, simply because the person couldn't afford to make it.
I then thought, if these people all over the world can't afford to do it themselves, there is no point wasting the idea, they may as well get some money for it.
I picture the purcahsemyidea.com website as something like an ideas version of Ebay, like a website version of a combination of Ebay and Dragon's Den.
Here is a promo/draft board I did for www.purchasemyidea.com;
Another idea is the...
Sweets Idea
This was a quite simple idea I had about creating an animation using penny sweets as I felt it is a shame how corporate companies make their money, yet also put traditional sweets and sweet shops out of business along with the fall of Happy Shopper.
I thought I could create a series of artworks using the Happy Shopper logo and create an animation using penny sweets as body parts to make a person, who's day job is a lollypop man (who actually holds a lollypop), but his job gets taken over by the corporate traffic lights and puts him out of work.
Another idea was...
Industrial/Transport;
This idea was all about the changes in industry throughout the U.K. throughout the ages. I thought about exploring the old warehouses, mills, factories and docks in my hometown city of Kingston-Upon-Hull and create scenes of what the places previously would have looked like in the bustling industrial ages. Once I had shown the old warehouses, mills, factories and docks as they are today, I'd fade into the same scenes how they would have looked and then shown what has replaced them in todays world.
I thought about using scenes from;
warehouses
factories
mills
docks
barges
freight trains
industrial chimneys
bridges
trawlers
&
haulage lorries.
another idea is...
Modernisation of 'The Young Ones';
I thought I could create a modernised, animated version of the 80s TV programme 'The Young Ones' with modernised versions of the characters e.g. a chav, metaller, emo, nu-raver, trendy, indie-kid e.t.c.
I also thought I could used the comedian 'Masked Dan' as a replacement for Alexei Sayle.
Another idea is...
Pub Idea;
This was an idea I had regarding one of the most traditional icons in British history - the Great British pub. Pubs are now closing down at the fastest rates they have in history and many fear they could become extinct. I thought about artistic captures from scenes inside some historic and iconic old pubs, capturing their character and soul. I also thought about re-designing the old pub "tavern boards" that hang from walls outside pubs.
My final idea is to be clever and do a project called "Indecisive";
This idea is to do a few mini projects of the ideas I've wrote about above and say it's because I was "indecisive".
