ORDER & CHAOS Definition:

Chaos: “A state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organisation or order.” – from: dictionary.com / https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chaos

Order: “an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.” – from: dictionary.com https://www.dictionary.com/browse/order

Order & Chaos has lots of meaning in lots of different cultures one of the most known ones would be chinies with “Ying & Yang” which is used for many of thing but can be used to describe chaos and order it can also be used to represent good and even with the Black meaning evil and chaos and the white meaning good and order. Information on another type of Chaos and order can be found in Taoism or Daoism which is the a type of religion to do with the natural order of the universe and how a individual human can guide them self to a state of order to improve there life. From my own understanding chaos and order is the state or where a individual is follow a set of rules or going off the path like following the law or being a criminal, chaos normally happens when someone does not follow the set or rules that are set and go and do there own thing which causes order to get stronger to stop chaos from spreading you could also use riots as a depiction of chaos and order the police being order and the rioters being chaos and miss order causing damage to property and in some cases causing massive amount of the armed response.

Links used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism (Cannot find a website that goes into as much detail)
https://www.thoughtco.com/yin-and-yang-629214 (A little break down of the ying and yang)

ORDER & CHAOS Word Association:

Order, Honor, Peace, Freedom, Happiness, Law, Security, Pride, Love, Birth, Angel

Chaos, Distress, Anarchy, Uncontrollable, Death, Demon, Hell, DOOM, Eternal

I have done a word association to help me come up with some ideas of what I could do for my ideas and to get a better understanding of the theme, Order & chaos these words will also help with the further research that I will be moving onto next. These will also help make additional strands to my mind map that I will be making. The idea of word association is to link the word you put to the last word so starting with the word chaos you would move onto link it to words like Anarchy or distress or even doom you will do the same with order as well another thing you can have is here the words link back to the original so your have a word association link where you can read it either way and it will always lead back to the main word I have just done the basic one.

Chaos & Order Mind map

Using the word association I made this mood board to further spread my ideas out allowing me to show more progression in my research when doing this I tried to look into as many different junctions as possible so I could get a bigger ideas pool I started with the main theme which is order and chaos and then branched into the main things that come to mind when you think about order and chaos which for order was Peace, Control, Religion, Security, and Safety. Most of them I found other things I could really link to them and I could expand upon but the safety was something that I could not really see myself doing but I wanted to add it to make sure I went with every option that is available, the aim is to add as many words as possible so i can come up with a sizeable amount of ideas safety and religion was two things i did not really want to touch and could not really think of things i could do with them but i could still add some words to religion I really liked the idea of control and government keeping the peace and order so I am thinking one or two of my idea may use some of these words and I will expand upon them. In the chaos section War was one that suited the well with the idea i had to use government and order so i expanded upon that a lot meaning that it has more detail then most of the other branches the other section i liked of chaos was the anarchy section and I thought i could maybe come up with some good side by side view comparisons that make the viewer see both order and chaos which i think would be a powerful piece. In chaos i still really hated the idea of doing religion and could think of some ideas but in the the end thought i would be too hard to do and take too much time off the time I have for the FMP so i expanded upon it a little but in the end did not go too in depth.

Using the mind map I began making mood boards using some of the words and ideas that I could do for my project, starting with police. Using the main word order I also added in government and it linked me to the word off police who uphold the order and work for the government I chose each image due to the way they showed uniforms and changed the style of the police not only there uniform but also there equipment changes as well with the style and time period. I tried to build a wide verity of images so i had a wider idea pool allowing me to make more ideas and generate more sketches when it comes to the sketching phase of the project. Not only police I also looked into counter terrorism units because they also fell into the type of thing I wanted to look into and I had some really good inspiration for there designs from games like rainbow six siege which are heavily tactical first person shooters that involve a element of Police from different countries and time periods with newer operators (this is what they call the characters) consisting of newer gear such as holograms and older ones with more modern gadgets and modern gear such as bullet proof vests which you see now a day. I have a taken a screenshot of 3 rainbow six siege operators to show off some character changes though time line and gadget change starting with jackal he is a operator with more of a modern look, with heavy body armour and his gadget which allows him to track foot prints of other operators in game, vigil is second a more futuristic character who uses a kind of jamming device which allows him to become invisible to recording devices such as cameras his armour is modern with a futuristic kind of spin with his gadget and lastly Iana who is an engineer who developed a kind of clone/hologram that confuses other operators and makes them think she is one place when really she is in another she wears more of a sci-fi uniform and is said to work in space.

When making this mood board I wanted to do the opposite of the police and the order by focusing more on chaos and I made this board about Criminals which are the opposite of the police and I selected each image to show different types and styles as well as time periods. I wanted to look at all of the main jobs i could think of so i collected images of Pirates, Assassins, bounty hunter, hackers, and even murderers collecting these helped me get a better idea of what I could do for my project. The thing i wanted when choosing each image was does the character tell a story does the professions of the person radiate off there outfit or do they just look normal with a hidden darker side I wanted to look into how characters and there outfits change with profession and I found lots of similarities to what I though bounty hunter could look like or assassins they all seem to follow this hooded hidden character that is never seen and never heard of but the one of the professions and images that linked to it was the serial killer profession someone who gets a kick out of a kill that has a MO for doing something and they like to show off they seem to almost be exactly the same they are presented as normal looking people with a darker side to them some of the art found for these types of characters i found interesting with a half and half one side being good and one side being bad to represent how people and preserve them. When looking into this I also wanted to look into video games as well and looked at how criminals are represented in some of the games I have so I began looking into pirates more because I found them just a little more interesting and I had a game downloaded for them I began with looking into league of legends lore with the Characters known as Gang Plank and Miss fortune who are two different sides of a coin gank plank being a ruthless captain who cares for no one other then his spoils and Miss fortune being a caring captain who can be ruthless at times but cares for her crew some of these can been seen in cinematic for miss fortune but mainly in the lore that is done for her I found these two sides very interesting and they gave me some little ideas of what i could do for a project that I could expand upon.

Following with how I started collecting ideas with my mind map I decided to something more with the heaven and hell because I found even though I did not really like the religion side of things in this theme that chaos best represents hell and order represents heaven and they seem to link heavily together so I began looking into heaven and people depictions of this and I chose a selection of them which i found inspirational and reflected the type of mood off them which i thought suited the theme of order. When looking into heaven and collecting images for it I found that lots of them where floating islands sitting surrounded by clouds and bright lights peaking through the clouds that surround the island, lots of the other images went on different approaches using brighter colours and lights to give it a almost paradise appearance with beautiful waterfalls and such surrounding the area I really liked how lots of these images used flouting connections between the land to represent that heaven. I also really liked how lots of the images when making structures seem to be temple like and use colours like gold and white to give it that heaven look 2 of the colours that I found used a lot on each of the images green and trees are also used lots in some of these images and gave it a level life to the images instead of just structures but adding a bit of green to add levels to each image and gave me some good ideas for how I could do a flouting island project with adding elements of what these images show even without adding in things like angels and people you can make the environment look like heaven using the colours as well as aspects of things that represent life. Meany games seem to ignore/avoid the aspect of heaven due to bad depiction which can cause a large amount of back lash most games try to limit there play time in these scenes such as diablo 3 with there levels where you run though heaven crushing the corruption creeping in from hell. The scene used the same colour scheme and architecture that are show in a lot of the images above and adding this into the mix of the research has allowed me to come up a idea of how i could merge heavens gate with hells pit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wUnJ5Q1Ow
Cinematic of heaven in Diablo 3

Moving onto the opposite of heaven I also made this mood board about hell I began collection images for this theme, the entire theme of order and chaos allowed me to explore heaven and hell and allows a lot of side by side comparisons of projects that such things like decaying structure on one side and fully built ones on the other, this was one of the easier things to collect images on and reference with games
This a collection of images of hell that I made, I chose examples of hell where there is a large structure or landscapes. I wanted to explore colours as well due to it being fairly basic i looked at different concepts of art from games and just general art meaning i could see how they choose to present hell with the colours and shades it mainly seems to be, red, yellows and orange but some of them used black for basalt and hard stone which i really like the addition of other colours to make them stand out this will help with my designs for my final idea, I am planning to try and use colours that represent chaos and order and make sure as the viewer you can see why i chose those colours and how they link back. I think all of these images will help me with the representation of chaos as well as the character representation as well in the end with the final idea of chaos.