Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Friday, 9 May 2014

'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.

Saturday, 21 December 2013

'Hello Beautiful' Brief: Collage Work and Themes.

To generate more ideas, my tutors had the idea of, almost censoring magazine and newspaper articles. picking out key words with positive connotations. This was extremely helpful and I created a mind map of all the words I'd picked out afterwards.


After this I wanted to do something different, so I picked out some key words from my mind map. 'Beauty', 'Power', 'Different', 'Growth' and 'Life' were my favourites. I started creating collage using found imagery, my first was around the word 'Power'. 

I wasn't sure about the one on the left, it's really weak and doesn't strike you in the same way the one on the right does.

'Beauty'

I really like my second image of someone almost drowning in cosmetics.

'Different'.


I think this one works as a spread because of the connection with the text.
I like a few of the outcomes here but overall I'm not that keen. I think I could've used a wider range of media and explored the words a little more. I'd like to work with found media again at some point, and maybe in a little more depth than what I produced here.