Creative Making week

For the first week back from Easter, we collaborated with the LBM group to mix up working partners. We got into groups and were told to bring in a range of weird and random objects. The first day we experimented with these objects and crafted together some new weird and random objects. In my group we had such a large collection of random stuff that we all started making different things. We ended up with a person made of a balloon, a hairband and a couple of other random things, a chair made of balloons, glow sticks and paper, a table made of playing cards and some other objects. 

With these objects we decided to make a story based on this man. I brought in a kaleidoscope which became a focal point of the story. With all our creative minds collaborated together, we thought up a life for our character, Bernard. We wanted to make a documentary of Bernard therefore had to find a voice and film him. We recorded the voice of an interview with a maintenance man that worked at Ravensbourne and edited it to sound like just him talking. This sounded great and we needed footage to go with it. Using the program Stockmotion, we hired a camera, a green-screen and some other equipment to film Bernard in his natural surrounding. All of us working together, we managed to get moving footage of Bernard by moving him in between filming. He had a pet rabbit sponge which was a fun part of the story. After putting the footage and sound together we came up with about a minute of Bernard's voice and life. We put the video up on YouTube, the voice worked really well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtJoXNxCdU8&feature=youtu.be

We felt we needed a little more to go with the film, so we made a range of posters and logos for branding and created an installation of a kaleidoscope in Ravensbourne to add to the showing of the film. This all worked really well together and made Bernard's life more realistic, although it was fictional. 

Berlin

For the Ravensbourne trip, we went to Berlin in Germany to discover the art and life of the city. We visited many inspiring places, which helped me with thinking of ideas to do with my final major project. A personal favourite Gallery we visited for me, had to be the photography museum. I love the photography side of Graphics and collected some information on useful artists and photographers to help me with my project on dance. 

As well as the photography museum, I enjoyed the Modern art museum very much too. It had a range of new unique pieces, some of which I had never seen or heard of before. 

We visited the parliament, in which is the highest part in Berlin. Walking up the spiral mirror building, we were told all about the sites, buildings and attractions of Berlin as we could see them from far. This was a great introduction as it made  me feel more connected with the City. 

We visited the Holocaust Museum, which told the stories of the Jewish and German sufferers that were included in the awful war. Outside the Museum was an installation based on the amount of people killed in the war. This was sad but beautiful and great work of art.

FMP change

After a lot of thought and discussion with the tutors and other students, I decided that doing a magazine would not be the best idea for me. This is because it does not allow for a selection of final pieces, in the final show I will have one thing to show. I think it would be better to get a range of things to show, therefore I am now basing my Final Major project on Dance. 

In this project I will explore dance in my own way. I will look in to the history of dance, do drawings, take photographs, look at artists and designers relevant to my theme. I want to also focus on the human body and form. I find this really interesting and I think s much can be done with this theme. I could make sculptures and use stockmotion or other programs to make short films. 

I have in mind already some photographers that relate to this theme, Robert Mapplethorpe and Bill Brandt are brilliant photographers that I can use as supporting work in my project, they will inspire my dance and movement progress.

FMP start

For my Final Major project I have decided to focus on a magazine. From the research I have done so far, I came up with my project proposal.

Further research will require me to look into other graphic magazines such as 'Web Designer', Time magazine, DG magazine, Daze and Confused, Creative review, and many  more.

weather project

For the weather project, we were to think of something or someone that we saw or encountered everyday. It could be a scene or an object, I chose to first photograph my duvet in different shapes in the morning. Every day, I wake up and this is something I see first thing in the morning. It makes some unique shapes with the folds and bends of the material fabric. I made a contact sheet of these images and chose a couple of images that I could manipulate. I focussed on the flowing shapes that lead the eye. If one studies the images, many shapes, objects and animals can be created within it. 

I collected some images from the internet of animals that connect to the weather for example penguins because they live in a cold environment. 

3 in 2 projects - alphabet

The final project I decided to do out of the six is the alphabet of our own. This project required our intelligence and creativity to think of a new way to present the alphabet. I decided to use my photography skills again and photograph an alphabet out of hands as a shadow. Using these letters I created words such as my name with the shadow letters on the computer to show how they work as the alphabet.

3 in 2 projects - photography

For the photography project as part of the 3 in 2, we were to pick a word and take a series of photographs based on hat particular word. I chose the word CONTACT. I worked with a range of objects and people, most images were not posed, though some were purposely designed to the theme.