So after some thinking about how I could next explore "what's a line" I wanted to try bringing in new creative elements to keep my interest level going with the stop motion and generally with subjects and areas of this I am interested in. My thoughts went into how I could create story lines and sequences with a focused theme of Lines..... The idea went then to progressing a line and theme and then it transformed into an other story of some kind. I would potentially like to combine photography stop motion with the kind of work I am doing on photoshop. The two kinds of animation in one sequence would show a huge separation so I could perhaps develop that into a fantasy or parallel world.... Shown through a line.
Heres a short montage of some of these ideas expolred via the photoshop animations. And on the end are other clips I hadn't used that to be honest just went wrong. Development work i will call it!
This similar theme of lines that are created into other objects or lines were taken from the opening sequence of catch me if you can. The film, made in 2002, was what made me want to go into art and graphics. I used to rewind the sequence so many times that I normally wouldn't end up watching the actual movie!
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Friday, 13 February 2009
Evaluation of module
What practical skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
A main practical skill I learnt this module is how to use more of a logical and effective way of researching my work. I reached methods that I enjoyed and this definitely worked to my benefit. Although Photoshop and the In Design have helped me develop my skills, I feel this module, these workshops have been the only aspect of learning that have given me genuine input into how to create professional work. Although I had learnt from book binding and the research workshops, the computer workshops helped me develop skills that at this point, are a lot more visible and easier to use in other aspects of the course.
Although I regret not managing enough time for the final product in this module, I do however feel my time management has improved as I am working constantly throughout and uploading work on the blogger as I go along which makes it easier.
What approaches to/methods of problem solving have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
This module has helped me to see how to find and create research using much more interesting and in a scene random forms and styles of communication too.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
My work is definitely full of more ideas this module and I have tried developing these with trial and error exercises which I have mainly photographically documented.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
Through this module my weakness has defiantly lied with all my final outcomes. I felt with every project this module that I didn’t have a good looking final outcome that I could be proud of. They all consisted of a lot of ideas backed up by research which although the module was about, I still feel a better outcome would have been more appropriate. The research in this module may have also needed to be more statistical as I have research and information but not compared any of them and put them into graphs and databases etc.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1. Plan time more effectively, especially with a 5 week project
2. When being given small one week projects, try and think about it more in the big picture, as part of the final outcome, and not as a side project. Focus on the theme.
3. Identify purpose and content at an earlier stage
4. Find new ways of researching.
5.Document work as I go along more. Use blogger to its full advantage. `
I would grade myself in the following areas as:
attendance . 5
punctuality. 5
Motivation. 4
Commitment. 2
Quantity of work produced. 5
Quality of work produced. 1
Contribution to the group. 5
A main practical skill I learnt this module is how to use more of a logical and effective way of researching my work. I reached methods that I enjoyed and this definitely worked to my benefit. Although Photoshop and the In Design have helped me develop my skills, I feel this module, these workshops have been the only aspect of learning that have given me genuine input into how to create professional work. Although I had learnt from book binding and the research workshops, the computer workshops helped me develop skills that at this point, are a lot more visible and easier to use in other aspects of the course.
Although I regret not managing enough time for the final product in this module, I do however feel my time management has improved as I am working constantly throughout and uploading work on the blogger as I go along which makes it easier.
What approaches to/methods of problem solving have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
This module has helped me to see how to find and create research using much more interesting and in a scene random forms and styles of communication too.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
My work is definitely full of more ideas this module and I have tried developing these with trial and error exercises which I have mainly photographically documented.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
Through this module my weakness has defiantly lied with all my final outcomes. I felt with every project this module that I didn’t have a good looking final outcome that I could be proud of. They all consisted of a lot of ideas backed up by research which although the module was about, I still feel a better outcome would have been more appropriate. The research in this module may have also needed to be more statistical as I have research and information but not compared any of them and put them into graphs and databases etc.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
1. Plan time more effectively, especially with a 5 week project
2. When being given small one week projects, try and think about it more in the big picture, as part of the final outcome, and not as a side project. Focus on the theme.
3. Identify purpose and content at an earlier stage
4. Find new ways of researching.
5.Document work as I go along more. Use blogger to its full advantage. `
I would grade myself in the following areas as:
attendance . 5
punctuality. 5
Motivation. 4
Commitment. 2
Quantity of work produced. 5
Quality of work produced. 1
Contribution to the group. 5
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Book project evaluation
My problem was directed specifically at students and recycling. The fact that not many students in fact recycle or even have the facilities I found quite alarming. I tried to use many ways of investigating my research. Some were simply surveys to my target audience via face book, some were video documentation and some were photographs I had posed which included information i had got from my original research. It was all sufficient in the end because I used the format that I originally had investigated with and then through other means of research I had used this same format, with all the other information in the final piece. Saying this I didn't include typography which i did briefly look at. The other books as well, were all pretty bold in what statement and how they were going to compromise the audience and the content, but i found in the end to make it more simple and try not to complicate my decisions. I think there is an appropriate amount of work. I made a decision that because this module was mainly based on research, trial and investigation, that I should go with the flow in a scene and not keep my eyes fixed on the final goal. The research was the main focus and I wanted to find new and more engaging ways for me to do this in the future, which looking back, i feel i have definitely found. My bad decision in this module, without a doubt lied in the fact that I made all my decisions for the final design too late. Although I wanted to keep it simple and not worry about the final piece too much, I felt with even a little more consideration into the final quality and layout of the book, I could have made it a lot more effective and neat. To evaluate my own process I was using a trial and error method. I wanted to find out specifically what points of my book were strong and what weren't and how visually interesting they became.
The gutter idea may be a idea to generally have developed further on this project but because I had only recently began using an working with InDesign and Illustrator, i was completly reluctant and terrified of trying to create effective writing through the middle fold. Thats why eventually took a step back, kept all my information normally laid out of the page and used literal rubbish and plastic bags in the gutter.
My direct audience was students in Leeds although some of the information i had originally looked at and compared my work to was from Family homes back in Pinner were I live and from students in other cities. A big problem of mine in this project was the actual binding. I found it didn't matter how many attempts I tried, I never seemed to get it right. i had never need to craft something before and been given an intense introduction into how to make and create it so I think through this year i may try continuing my attempts of being successful in this. First hand research into leeds and the council may have been more vital. Although I had tried to contact the council in order to receive information, their response was too delayed for me to make use of it and interpret it more in my work.
I think my work has definitely moved on from the first ideas and concept but also keeping the theme of in the gutter. I had used, developed, and re used research that eventually went into the final format or content for the book. The final piece used skills I had gained format he bookbinding work shop although If able to create the piece again, I would use different methods of binding for a more scrap book like quality. I brought 100 things into my book in as a mixture of the images and quotes given, and the names and data of each individual. If I did this process again I would keep all the facts or the objects given as one item. I also divided my book up into how GREEN the student was so I literally categorized in colors which had the most environmentally friendly being green. This categorizing was based on the statements and the three categories were all effectively the colors of recycling bins.
The gutter idea may be a idea to generally have developed further on this project but because I had only recently began using an working with InDesign and Illustrator, i was completly reluctant and terrified of trying to create effective writing through the middle fold. Thats why eventually took a step back, kept all my information normally laid out of the page and used literal rubbish and plastic bags in the gutter.
My direct audience was students in Leeds although some of the information i had originally looked at and compared my work to was from Family homes back in Pinner were I live and from students in other cities. A big problem of mine in this project was the actual binding. I found it didn't matter how many attempts I tried, I never seemed to get it right. i had never need to craft something before and been given an intense introduction into how to make and create it so I think through this year i may try continuing my attempts of being successful in this. First hand research into leeds and the council may have been more vital. Although I had tried to contact the council in order to receive information, their response was too delayed for me to make use of it and interpret it more in my work.
I think my work has definitely moved on from the first ideas and concept but also keeping the theme of in the gutter. I had used, developed, and re used research that eventually went into the final format or content for the book. The final piece used skills I had gained format he bookbinding work shop although If able to create the piece again, I would use different methods of binding for a more scrap book like quality. I brought 100 things into my book in as a mixture of the images and quotes given, and the names and data of each individual. If I did this process again I would keep all the facts or the objects given as one item. I also divided my book up into how GREEN the student was so I literally categorized in colors which had the most environmentally friendly being green. This categorizing was based on the statements and the three categories were all effectively the colors of recycling bins.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
The gutter Idea that finally went in the "gutter"
A few weeks ago we were given the 7 day brief to create a simple version of the book we were intending to create, and we were given specific guidelines. although we were given these boundaries, I was still confident in creating this "into the gutter" approach which I later, after many trial and error testing, found was a difficult concept for someone who wasn't particularly confident on illustrator. Here are some of the images from the book in which was the information I collected from the christmas holiday, literally written in the gutter of the book. As the date of the hand in of the book drew closer i began to think how relevant this idea was actually was compared to all my research. Although it was a sensible option, it didn't really liek the gutter idea with students not recycling.
From this I had a quick look at similar graphic designers who use their work along the centre fold of the work. This image is from the 1000 type treatments.
From this I had a quick look at similar graphic designers who use their work along the centre fold of the work. This image is from the 1000 type treatments.
ALL my attempts of book making
So through the last few weeks I have made many attempts of book making and book binding. The first of these was the book binding session we did a couple of weeks after we got the project given to us.
Although I did play full attention in the work shop and tried this new type of crafting, It can safely be said that this did not turn out how I wanted and we very unsuccessful. The most obvious and critical error I made was that the books edges were completely visible and to be honest it just looked a bit shoddy.
So I decided to do something about the fact that this clearly wasn't me fort-ay, and gave it an other go one miserable Saturday night:
I would be the first in saying this was possibly a lot more horrific than the first attempt. The sizing was all wrong for the outside and uneven. The glue was used a little too much and may be a main factor to why it went all wrong. Although I was obviously hopeless in this area, I didn't let it dishearten me. I carried on with my research and contents of the book and decided that I would just have to cross the bookmaking bridge when I came to it.
Heres one of the first books I made, when we were put in a group and asked to develop a book over that day with other people. WE used a combination of our research and attempted the folding from an a3 sheet to get this small book.
Similar to that I used the paper from a recycling and environmental magazine to create a book.... just seeing how effective the paper would be.
I wanted to have a quick look in how I could potentially create a book that was a little different but still on the same line. My thought process then went on from book making to book making inside other books. I began to strip the centre section out of this environmental book to look at an ironic perspective in that it would literally look like a student had cut up or "ruined"the environment, which more ironically, I had.......
Heres some of the other books i had bought... but before I begane cutting them all out, I changed my mind. He He.
An other of my ideas was to litrally create and make my own gutter, so me being me, went to buy a huge brown silinder tube and then reolised that as origional this idea would be, there was literally no way I would be able to bind the thing!
Although I did play full attention in the work shop and tried this new type of crafting, It can safely be said that this did not turn out how I wanted and we very unsuccessful. The most obvious and critical error I made was that the books edges were completely visible and to be honest it just looked a bit shoddy.
So I decided to do something about the fact that this clearly wasn't me fort-ay, and gave it an other go one miserable Saturday night:
I would be the first in saying this was possibly a lot more horrific than the first attempt. The sizing was all wrong for the outside and uneven. The glue was used a little too much and may be a main factor to why it went all wrong. Although I was obviously hopeless in this area, I didn't let it dishearten me. I carried on with my research and contents of the book and decided that I would just have to cross the bookmaking bridge when I came to it.
Heres one of the first books I made, when we were put in a group and asked to develop a book over that day with other people. WE used a combination of our research and attempted the folding from an a3 sheet to get this small book.
Similar to that I used the paper from a recycling and environmental magazine to create a book.... just seeing how effective the paper would be.
I wanted to have a quick look in how I could potentially create a book that was a little different but still on the same line. My thought process then went on from book making to book making inside other books. I began to strip the centre section out of this environmental book to look at an ironic perspective in that it would literally look like a student had cut up or "ruined"the environment, which more ironically, I had.......
Heres some of the other books i had bought... but before I begane cutting them all out, I changed my mind. He He.
An other of my ideas was to litrally create and make my own gutter, so me being me, went to buy a huge brown silinder tube and then reolised that as origional this idea would be, there was literally no way I would be able to bind the thing!
Final research to book of 100
So with only a few days left I wanted to create a strong set of images like I had done over the christmas holidays, In that I documented peoples rubbish just simply using post-et notes. I then decided to take all the research I had got written on the face book wall when I asked a bunch of students to make tell me their excuses into why they don't recycle. I wanted the images to be mainly ironic.. So give an exuce for not recycling, and then have something contridicting in the background, that would be typical of a student.
I then found a relevant book one of my flat mates had called I lick my cheese, which was effectively witty and blunt notes people had given each other. Some of my favorites were "I pay the rent, what do you do?" and Ehatever you do NEVER let the bailiffs in". Just being written on scraps of paper, they all looked genuine and effective.... In a scence i wanted to steal some of these original straight thinking quotes.
I then found a relevant book one of my flat mates had called I lick my cheese, which was effectively witty and blunt notes people had given each other. Some of my favorites were "I pay the rent, what do you do?" and Ehatever you do NEVER let the bailiffs in". Just being written on scraps of paper, they all looked genuine and effective.... In a scence i wanted to steal some of these original straight thinking quotes.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Visual language, statement of intent
For this project I hope to basically and effectively intend to create various videos which all have the theme of what's a line. Hopefully this whole module will develop my skills in stop- motion which I have recently found to be enjoyable to create...... so why not start an obsession.
For the time over reading week I intend to research many ways and more importantly many scales when creating the shots. My feedback in a recent crit told me that as an on going theme through my work, scale would be nice to experiment with..... So on those lines I intend to tell a story. Unlike the first few pieces that I made, this time I would like to thoroughly plan out and story board my intended sequence.
As I have the theme of scale, I had a quick look around my room and decided to look for all objects which were slightly unusual and odd. As a result a lot of the toys from this years christmas came to hand, So I began to collect them and think about developing them as story lines. A small toy water gun was the most effective of these. With a song in mind already It was only a case of figuring out how to combine all these ideas. Over reading week I will play with scale of these objects with a normal sized surrounding, maybe playing with the photoshop way of stop motion that I have already tried.
An other Idea I had that Im already trying out back in my flat was attaching a camera to the back to a skateboard. I intend to get images of just feet walking around and objects passing, using the perspective of a low steady angle as it slowly moves along the pavement. But this is just an idea and I just wanted to find new ways of getting very different kinds of shots which would potentially work effectively with music.
At home I am also looking forward to trying to re-create my little version f Ardmin animations. When I was 16 I stayed in Bristol for a week and was able to help and work on the set of "Sean the sheep" and the "Wallace and Grommit" movie. From when I went to their studios in Bristol, I will dig through the rubbish in my room in order to find out were my little "Morph" figure is. On the last day there, a very kind member of staff took me to the workshop were I created using a big clamp and show clay (much more work was involved), a Morph figure. As I still have this, and as long as copy right will allow me, I will try and see how movement works with figures which will help me in the research to my video.
For the time over reading week I intend to research many ways and more importantly many scales when creating the shots. My feedback in a recent crit told me that as an on going theme through my work, scale would be nice to experiment with..... So on those lines I intend to tell a story. Unlike the first few pieces that I made, this time I would like to thoroughly plan out and story board my intended sequence.
As I have the theme of scale, I had a quick look around my room and decided to look for all objects which were slightly unusual and odd. As a result a lot of the toys from this years christmas came to hand, So I began to collect them and think about developing them as story lines. A small toy water gun was the most effective of these. With a song in mind already It was only a case of figuring out how to combine all these ideas. Over reading week I will play with scale of these objects with a normal sized surrounding, maybe playing with the photoshop way of stop motion that I have already tried.
An other Idea I had that Im already trying out back in my flat was attaching a camera to the back to a skateboard. I intend to get images of just feet walking around and objects passing, using the perspective of a low steady angle as it slowly moves along the pavement. But this is just an idea and I just wanted to find new ways of getting very different kinds of shots which would potentially work effectively with music.
At home I am also looking forward to trying to re-create my little version f Ardmin animations. When I was 16 I stayed in Bristol for a week and was able to help and work on the set of "Sean the sheep" and the "Wallace and Grommit" movie. From when I went to their studios in Bristol, I will dig through the rubbish in my room in order to find out were my little "Morph" figure is. On the last day there, a very kind member of staff took me to the workshop were I created using a big clamp and show clay (much more work was involved), a Morph figure. As I still have this, and as long as copy right will allow me, I will try and see how movement works with figures which will help me in the research to my video.
Thursday, 5 February 2009
video resurch- why do u recycle?
So after doing my face book questionnaire I found that students in general aren't only lazy at recycling, but in fact they are still lazy enough to not even fill in a simple one question survey on one of the biggest public networking site. The survey was literally called "help Im an art student...... one question thats all", So I thought my apparently lazy friends would help me a bit more. 86 members joined the group and I got 52 answers on the wall. So effectively I did get quite a bit result, but still it had more potential. So I then began to think of other effective ways of getting some sort of answer out of my colleges and friends, then I came up with the video documentation. The video was quite effective and being there I was able to yell at people if they gave me a un helpful answer without explaining themselves.... .SCORE! ...... new effective way of documenting and researching.
By the way... everyone check out jonny's well explained answer around the middle of the clip!
By the way... everyone check out jonny's well explained answer around the middle of the clip!
The Juno video that COPIED ME
So my new aim for visual language was to create some sort of stop motion based work using scale as a theme. Because I was a beginner testing out all the elements of creating a video like this, I thought It would be wise to have a little look at other artists. Juno came to mind as the beginning sequence of the film reminded me of the resent photographic stop-motion work I had done. The indie off beat opening made me think I could now also begin looking at combining photography stop motion with my new found love of photoshop doodling on top.
on that note too, I had a brief look at an old Sony advert which I was told had the scale theme like I had in its concept.
Photography workshop:
Focus and exposure experimentation:
on that note too, I had a brief look at an old Sony advert which I was told had the scale theme like I had in its concept.
Photography workshop:
Focus and exposure experimentation:
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
The start of my obsession.......
After a group crit on Tuesday where I was able to show my line project videos, I started to investigate how I could further my new obbsesion with animated videos and stop motion. Why not???? So I herd through they grapevine that I could apparently make stop- motion simply by using photoshop and saveing each still frame as I went along.. So I played around for a long long time.... and this is some of the randum stuff I produced. They were loosly connected to whats a line but mainly I wanted to work out how to use the program....
This one i like to call EATING A LINE:
And this one is called BURP:
This one i like to call EATING A LINE:
And this one is called BURP:
The day it snowed..
Second time there has been snow for Kate Emma Fenton in leeds.... so why not use a camera from uni and take some beutiful pictures........ well.... slipping is one negative... but i managed to stay on my wobbely legs long enough to take a few snaps.
Enjoy.........
Enjoy.........
Monday, 2 February 2009
My first proper attempt of stop-motion.
With my new found skills I then developed the idea, and found out how to add music into the sequence. A good camera and better lighting also helped....... I showed this to a few friends..... all of which said it reminded them of a advert for something.
Here are some stills from the video, just incase you thought this could have not possibly been Kate Fenton who made this.......
OH I can assure you it was........
Because I was unfamilliar with editing the stock frames, and to be honest it was a risk to do edit all 300 frames that I had taken, I tried my best to keep backgrounds and contrasts as simple as I could. I bought black card and kept to contrasting and effective objects.... The small bits of white tack ironiclly looked a bit like small balls of snow. It has snowed all day on Monday .
Here are some stills from the video, just incase you thought this could have not possibly been Kate Fenton who made this.......
OH I can assure you it was........
Because I was unfamilliar with editing the stock frames, and to be honest it was a risk to do edit all 300 frames that I had taken, I tried my best to keep backgrounds and contrasts as simple as I could. I bought black card and kept to contrasting and effective objects.... The small bits of white tack ironiclly looked a bit like small balls of snow. It has snowed all day on Monday .
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