Cool Britannia Photoshop Work

Unit 1, Assignment 1.1, Part B:

2) + 3) Review your Arts Challenge every week and write a 300 word report on how you have attempted to achieve your Arts Challenge.

This week I did some research into the term ''Cool Britannia'' and found that it was first used in 1967 by the Bonzo Dog Band in one of their songs. The term then became well known by the 1990's and came to be defined as a period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom. the phrase also summed up the mood during the 1990s when there was growth in the British economy.During the time there was a burst of new British pop and rock music, union jacks were more popular in fashion ( e.g  Geri Halliwell's union jack dress) and British artists such as Damien Hirst became more popular. 

This research then led me to create two Photoshop pieces related to the term cool Britannia. The first image of the Beatles crossing Abbey road reflects the term cool Britannia in that the band was popular around the 60's and that was the era that inspired the 1990's fashion and culture. Also it was around the time that the phrase ''Cool Britannia'' was first used. I created this image by using the marquee tool in Photoshop to cut away the background and replace it with a union jack. 

This second image was created from an iconic image of Freddie Mercury who was in the band Queen. It relates to the theme Cool Britannia as Queen was a British band that was mainly at the center of British music and culture. I created this image by using the marquee tool on Photoshop to create a stencil of Freddie Mercury and place an image of the union jack behind him.

I also completed the following images in the same way as those above. In the first one i cropped out the queens face in a postage stamp and replaced it with a close up image of the London eye. This represents how the British monarchy have become more modern over the years. The second image is the silhouette of a Union Jack placed over Buckingham palace.