'Record' Project: Video

After my video from the journey while I was away, I wanted to film a journey back home. I started filming my bus to college in the same way, but I split it up into sections. Mainly because the first part was so boring!




You can see that this is just trees, it's interesting for a short time but after that I don't think it really works very well. I wanted to get more windy roads and people like I had before.


I picked up filming again when I know there were going to be more houses and people and generally people moving around. I much prefer this.




I did enjoy this, however as I do this journey all the time, it wasn't really as exciting as filming somewhere different was. Personally I find myself not being able to engage as much as I would had it been somewhere else. I'm still glad I made the films but for future reference I think i'll try and step more out of my comfort zone.

'Record' Project: A Journey.

I went away during the break, and while we were there we did the same bus journey everyday. It was really exciting to be in a place I didn't know and the journey was really interesting, lots of very windy roads and sharp turns and different streets. I decided to film what I could one day. I love the effect it has when you turn the corners and your viewpoint changes, I also thought it was funny how I'd occasionally come face to face with people. My phone didn't last the whole journey unfortunately but I got a fair amount of it. I was originally going to mute this as I talk the whole way through it (hate hearing your own voice.), but I couldn't figure out how so you'll just have to put up with me.




I think it's great to get an different and ever changing viewpoint of an alien area. Every corner you turn the perspective changes and suddenly there's another alleyway or a train track that you weren't expecting. I really enjoyed filming this clip, it was just quite embarrassing having people notice what you were doing!

Recent Exhibition Visits: Laura Buckley/Nicolas Deshayes.

I visited a few exhibitions recently, and as I used them towards different parts of my work and in my sketchbook, I thought I should briefly blog about what they were like/what I thought of the work.

The first exhibition we went to was at Site Gallery, and was titled 'The Magic Know-How', Laura Buckley. It was incredibly interesting and atmospheric. Described as a '3D sensory sound and light collage', the pieces were displayed in a pitch black room, while projections of film/digital image clips were projected through different 3D structures and reflected off mirrors. It was all accompanied by loud music/sounds. The projections were amazing, and the structures and use of mirrors to reflect the images back on itself/onto surrounding walls was very clever.

The next exhibition we visited was at S1 Artspace, and was titled 'Crude Oil', Nicolas Deshayes. This collection of work was a little different as it was composed with both his work, and a collection of other artists work he'd chosen to include in the show. There was a running theme, using synthetic materials/processes to create his work, but contrasting this by creating images depicting nature and water (where the oil originates). I enjoyed the collection of different pieces, my favourite pieces were the large tables, the tops of which looked like an oil spill in the sea. On top of these were two traditional sculptures he had chosen to accompany them. The layout looked really great, and although you wouldn't think it, the works really complimented each other.