My Concept

The concept of my piece is not to explore surrealism, I want to explore certain social injustices within the school environment, but using a few themes from surrealism. I've done a lot of research into Dada and the first surrealist movement and I like the idea of exploring things that cause issues within society then display it in a way thats far more dramatic. However this isnt the key theme of my piece.
I want to the issues that people face in the last year of school. After talking to a number of people in my year group I have gauged an understanding of what issues are surrounding us, this is what I want to look at. During school everyone is in a "high school bubble" and emotions are magnified and dramatised, this is similar to the themes in surrealism, about hightened realism. I don't want to take idea's from surrealist practioners such as Bunel etc because I want to try and create something that is far more original.
I really like the idea of exploring how politics seemingly controls the state school system, yet actually the main figures in politics have probably never even entered a state school in their life. That's where my inspiration from Tony Blair's speach "education education education" came from. As far as these politicians are concerned the only problems within school are how the grade boundaries must be changed, however there are much more intricate issues concerened with emotion. These MP's are in control of everything within out culture, education, media etc. I want to explore the paradox that the media is the cause of much corruption within school, such as body image and girls wanting to change themselves to fit these media stereotypes, but at the same time grade boundaries are being changed, courses are being changed and it's adding stress on to people.
I also like the idea of how we start off our education being extremely juvenille and year by year more and more pressure is added on. I want to try and show how the pressure is piled on in the last year of school and this is why people find themselves doing things to try and release the stress. I want to show how the issues that occur in school are important, they shouldn't be ignored because they are serious.