History - My Manifesto

History Manifesto

Definition of a Manifesto:

 

"A public declaration of policy and aims, especially one issued before election by a political party or candidate" - Oxford Languages

My understatement of Manifesto to the world of Art:

A manifesto is a set of guidelines or rules to/from an artist for their art, usually to make it unique or impact to the audience.

What I've learned from learning about other manifestos (like from Guerrilla Girls) all art has greater too little impact to the greater society. Either it is for purpose of helping society or unintentionally offending some people. But most of all what I learned from other people’s manifestos, it takes a step of courage to step against what society believes in, even if it’s for the right cause. My manifesto to me is a step of courage from society, something where people question my sanity, but at least it would help me mentally, and possibly help others in future. 

Before this course, I was a casual produces and supermarket worker, it wasn't too bad, I enjoyed life, but then lock down happen. 

Before lock down I had doubts with life, but the lock down was the final nail in the coffin, a final slap to the face that I wasn't happy with life. Just living day to day working, sleeping, nothing to improve or challenge me. I wanted to do YouTube and be a freelance artist, but the brought up with a certain parent and family members, they beat it into me that art isn't a job. So, I kept putting it aside, living a life of a mature adult, paying bills, having a job, etc., until, as I said, lock down happen in my country.

Here I am now, studying at SIT (Southland Institute of Technology) in Certificate of Creativity and will hopefully continue studying to get a Bachelor of Screen Arts in three more years.

So How is My Art and My Story going to Impact the World?

Well as I said before I like to do YouTube, as a speed drawer and story-time animator. I know it seems not original, but the content would be. There is a few people on YouTube that have inspired me and my art so far, and I would like to pay it forward with some fan art to begin with. With fan art there is some moral rules you need to follow, which I would follow as I wouldn't like people do it to me.

1.     See if the person/people are okay with others drawing fan art of them.

2.     Make sure the content you are creating for the person/people of interest is appropriate. An example is if the person of the fan art is about, is a polite and mature character, don't draw them in a way to discriminate them.

3.     Don't sell the fan art. Be Non-Commercial.

4.     Any songs from the person/people of interest need to be credited, before or during the playing and at the end of the video.

5.     Any creation from the person/people of interest, ie alternate egos, must be stated. I'll more than likely put this information in the description of the video on YouTube or in the title/description of other social medias that will be posted.

6.     If any of these rules are breached unintentionally or not breached, comply with any request coming from the person/people of interest, either it is from the creator or an agent on behalf of the creator.

Other than fan art rules, I'll following during and in the artwork I have done for this paper, I have my own guidelines I'll be following for my art.

1.     Whatever creations I make I'll put onto YouTube and other Social Medias like, Twitter, (if fan art) Reddit, Facebook and/or Instagram.

2.     The creation I create, I create out the enjoyment, not for fame or money, as that is a bad mindset to be in.

3.     Don't make excuses to not do some art, this is more for the emotion of fear as it was the wall that stopped me from doing what I'm happy doing. Quote from a stranger off the internet in one of the fan groups I was once in, "It's a risk to do anything. A risk to do something and a risk to do nothing".

4.     Kind of a contradiction but, it's okay to have days off, especially for mental health days. 

5.     Do NOT steal other people’s work.

6.     Try and use free copyright music always, but if I was going to use copyrighted music, state it in the beginning and the end, also in the description where to go and get the music (same with free copyright music). Lastly the video or animation that I'll use the copyrighted music I'll make sure I don't get money from it, if I do, I'll try and give it to the creator of the song.

7.     If there is a collaboration in the creation, state everyone that worked on it.

8.     If you aren't too confident in an artwork you have created, you can put it aside and do something else, I know that can’t be the case all the time but I learned if you changed your mind early you can get the work done. Also new eyes on the project can make the project look amazing.

9.     If the creation is in one way disturbing or could upset people. Warn them before the showing the artwork as not everyone likes dark/horror things.

There is other things I like to add to the list but, I think this is a good start, before this course there was many of restrictions (mostly from fear) causing myself to not do art and I wouldn't like to go back there anytime soon. Would like to say through, during this course I did learn to do creation not based around me. For example, my film project I did based it around me, my experience during lock down, my mentality, but I panicked and, in the end, didn't do it as it was too much pressure. If I did do something around experiences, I encounter I'll do it onto a fictionally character as the pressure wouldn't be as strong.