Lecture: Confessions Video

In this lecture, we watched the confessions video that we had collaboratively created in the media roundabout which was then edited and put together by Jamie. After we had watched the video, we reflected on it and commented on what went well and what could have improved.

The video featured a mix of confessions switching between serious and funny confessions which then changed the output of the video.

There was a variation between shots like close up shots showing just faces and wider shots of the neck and shoulders which created an interesting concept as not all the shots were the same and created a variation. This factor was caused due to the learning of the equipment as a lot of us had never been in the media pathway before.

In the first group, there was a cognitive process in collaboration of putting the hand over the face. This idea made the video even more effective as it concealed the eyes, causing depersonalization creating a visually strong piece.

In creating this video, we mastered the three C’s: Craft (lighting), Concept (confession) and Commitment (Strangers). By this we mean that we crafted lighting using Chairoscuro where we thought about the concept of light and shadow which is a key lighting strategy. This set the tone which was key for the confessions video. The concept part was that the idea of the video was to record people confessing, and the commitment was because we were confessing to complete strangers which caused the being brave notion to come about.

The range of people in the video became a signifier for it due to the extensive range of people from ethnicity, religion, gender, skin colour and tattoos, dyed hair, painted nails and so on. I is really effective and created a visually strong piece of work.

Lecture: BBC Music John Peel Lecture on Brian Eno

Brian Eno: arts, music, books, textiles, technology, producer, composer. 

Brian Eno was an art student in the 60s at Colchester Institute in Essex, England where he took inspiration from minimalist painting.

Eno doesn’t consider himself in the creative industry as this relates to the economy rather than making art.

He asked the question ‘Is art a luxury?’ and went on to say if people were asked what art does, then we would get a lot of different answers whereas with a subject like science, you would pretty much get the same answer.

He states that ‘art is everything that you don’t have to do to’ where he extends this to say that basic activities like eating are made into complex, stylized activities. Essential needs like clothing are also turned into stylized needs, as people care a great deal about what we do causing us to stylize ourselves. He says how you have to wear clothes but you don’t have to wear designers yet we do.

He goes on to ask why are these things important and why do we do it?

He states that ‘We have a very fine distinction on what we prefer.’

Eno then says that what separates us from other animals is our capability to be able to imagine and fantasize to a point where we could create something completely new. We are very skilled at world building making us have great capability of feeling empathy.

He talks about how children learn to imagine through play and how adults play through art, constructing little worlds such as nail painting, cake making, symphonies etc.

Eno goes on to say how art give us feelings about things that aren’t dangerous, that its a safe place to let us have dangerous/ extreme feelings where we can immediately turn them off i.e. radio.

They are a set of collective rituals

There’s a democracy where art isn’t about high and low, or rich and poor. It’s a notion of play, tribal and culture.

Lecture: Evidence, Description Reflection

In this lecture, we were given a tutorial on how to successfully give evidence, describe and reflect on our work.

Description: “This is what i did…”

Spoken or written or visual (blog) account of a person, object, event

The process of how we completed our activities where we give detailed accounts of what we did.

Evidence based is everything we do to show awareness of process

Reflection: serious thought or consideration 

What did I do, how well did I do it, how should I improve

Recognize progress (distinction level)

Articulate where you’re at and increase artistic vocabulary

Revisit Activities: Give Reflection and Description

During the lecture on evidence, description and reflection, we were set a target to revisit out blogs, and describe our work and the process we went through to get to the point that we’re at. We have to say where we went to complete the activity (Corporation Park), what we did and how we did it.

From there we have to do further research on the artists given as well as finding other artists that do similar work. We also have to look at the medium like what materials and techniques were used. We have to reflect on our work also looking at what we did and what materials were used as well as what went well and what we could improve on (strengths and weaknesses).

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This was a useful source to see how I could successfully reflect and describe my work.

Artist Research- Aneta Ivanova

   
    
    
    
    
    
   

Aneta Ivanova is a photographer based in Bulgaria. Ivanova started experimenting with different techniques to give a new meaning to her photographs – at first long exposures, then double and multiple exposures combining a number of portraits, then portraits with landscape and nature elements. She found inspiration everywhere. 

Ivanova states that “The sea has always been my ultimate source of inspiration which can bee seen in some of my works. What fascinates me is the fact that it is so unpredictable and powerful, always changing, it can heal us at some moments but also has the ability to destroy us in others.” 

With this she tries to keep her work personal, photographing her sisters mainly as she feels that nobody else could actually recreate what goes on in her mind better. She feels that art should not be explained, but should have more questions then answers. She explains “For me art is something that’s happening inside the person who’s creating or viewing, it’s not a product or an object, it’s an experience. And by this means, by viewing or enjoying art, one is creating it again and again, giving it new life each time.”

Artist Research- Joeri Bosma

   
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Artist Research- Laura Williams

   
    
    
 

Laura Williams is a 19 year old graphic design student in Brighton.  

Artist Research- Dan Mountford; Double Exposure

   
    
   

Dan Mountford is a graphic designer and photographer based in Brighton, England. He most well known for is double exposure shots which he describes as “avisual journey through our minds by calm and tidy means which the reality of everyday life does not show”.

Artist Research- Antonio Mora

   
    
   
Antonio Mora is a Spanish designer and art director who gives himself free rein to his inexhaustible fantasy and expressive needs. More creates art that cracks into our collective memory allowing us to watch, and populate our deepest dreams. He takes man and nature and juxtapose them together to create these mysterious pieces that express the connection between man and nature and how they are both similar. 

I have found inspiration from Mora’s work as I enjoy the creative element of photography where I can juxtapose two completely different photographs together to create a new photograph using photoshop. 

Experiments from Photography Roundabout

From the photography roundabout, I decided to experiment with the photos and other photographs from Dolphinholme and photos I had taken previously. I chose to juxtapose the roundabout photos with the Dolphinholme photos to create a new, abstract image using Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.

I chose to juxtapose my mono prints from my roundabout with my photographs taken from the roundabout to form a new piece of art. I found this very interesting and found that I had created some interesting pieces of art.