'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.

Inspiration

A little bit of photo inspiration for colour and pattern.

'Record' Project: More Sounds.

Over the break I've been trying to collect some more sound pieces. They are quite varied but I think that's important as I want to have lots of very different material.




I like this sound clip because it shows a very normal everyday situation, however you are focusing on it in more detail. I think the conversation and language is interesting!




Something incredibly different. My younger brother ended up joining a choir through what started as a Sheffield music project in primary schools a few years ago. This is from a performance we went to see in the church. I decided to record one of the songs because the material is so different to what I have already. This is a great contrast to the everyday voices and sounds I have already.





This is very muffled and you can barely make out anything at all, it is very loud on planes. Even so I kept it in, I think it's a lesson that very loud background noise isn't always the best time to try and record, and also the quality on my phone is rubbish!




This one is great, there is very mixed conversation going on and in different languages too! Unfortunately you can here my cousin and uncle talking about berets but perhaps that only adds to the strange but great mix of different voices here!

I'll leave it here for now, but I'm really enjoying working with these sounds. I think it's a great alternative way to collect material and adds another dimention to the work. I apologise for the rubbish quality though!

'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!

'Record' Project: Journal So Far.

I decided I'll do a post reflecting on the work in my drawing journal so far. I think it'll help me pick out what I like and what works and think about how I could expand the work I have now, and what techniques I can apply to future drawings. I picked out and scanned in my favourite pages.

I've really enjoyed including text, and also layering up work. I like the how busy some of the pages are. 

I think the pencil texture looks great, I always lean on pen and I need to push myself to work with a much larger range of media in my journal. I've started laying grounds too, to avoid those plain backgrounds.

I was being more careful with colour here which I think kind of works, but also looks a little harsh and boring. I wish I had included some collage in these images. 

I need to keep producing more work, and make sure I'm always drawing on transport when I have nothing else to do. Other than that, focus on experimenting with a wider range of media.

To expand from these I think I'll do some found image style collages, based around my theme as well as what I've produced so far. I'd also like to try the oil on paper/transparent technique as I didn't quite have time today. 

'Record' Project: Mixed Recording.

Recently I went to a cafe in town, I used this as a chance to record the same scene in two different ways. I used the napkins (which had several printed layers) to collage in my journal, and my phone to audio record the general atmosphere. At one point on the recording a waiter dropped a spoon and the whole cafe went silent for a second. It was interesting how one sound cancelled out another.

I think the joining of different media is really interesting, it creates a whole idea of the atmosphere on several different levels for the viewer, without them actually having to be there. Also I got to eat a tasty croissant -no complaints.

Various Inspiration.