Media project week 8

Media week 8 Following tutorial how will this influence your direction? I did not have a tutorial this week and so still go with what I learned in the tutorial before. I know I want to do animation now and just needed to finalise my blog, which I did before we began this media project. I have enjoyed the media project and know this is an area which I enjoy working in, so I will try stay in this pathway in the future. Identify overlapping themes in your personally driven work, are there connections between ideas and materials used? If so what are they and if not what are the differences? I don’t believe there are many themes in my personally driven work. I research what seems relevant whilst also researching what I find interesting about each topic to ensure I have a wide range of understanding on what I am working on. I suppose one theme would be I like to contextually place things that I work on. In the art project making the patterns for child, design the earpiece for elders in care and in media creating a piece that is to be used in promotional material for the Victoria and Albert museum. Material used I would say would be collage. As much as I note that I dislike collage, I cannot say against its usefulness in the creation of ideas and pieces throughout my projects. My final media piece being a digital collage. Otherwise I like to keep my use of materials broad as that doesn’t limit me in what I can do for each of the projects. Although sticking more digital this project with the use of adobe pro cc and photoshop. Compare how you have used your time between this project and the last. I feel I have used my time in this project as effectively as I can with the materials I have available. With the design project I had much more practical materials at my disposal so I could work on things more in my own time. However with this project with the hand scanners and the Polaroid cameras I preferred to keep them in the room and not take them out of fear of loss of damage on my travels too and from uni. Similarly they are locked away at lunchtimes so I found myself just trying to get everything scanned in on the studio time and they using photoshop in my own time to get the project done. I feel I definitely dedicated more time to artists research than I did previously. Looking up relevant artists for the time period (Art Deco) that I was researching, similarly looking at Eric nagal in detail as his process is what inspired me to create my final piece. When creating collage you cannot really guess what the final outcome will be as you don’t really know what random chance objects you will find in the magazines. As much as I like to plan my outcomes I did find that quite nice to do and go with the chance of found items, trying to fit them to the theme of what I was trying to accomplish. Similarly I liked the nature of the hand scanners and that the hand scan can vary every time you do it. So I was open to the different attempts and outcomes, and was willing to work with those. When the project was complete we had to present to the group. I laid my blog page out in a way so that I could explore backward what we did to explain the process of my creation and why I did certain things, which was available in the text around each blog post but no one was going to read that. I found it quite hard to present in front of the whole group at first, but you quickly remember that you are all in the same boat and will have to present. So that makes it easier to explain what you did. I feel like perhaps I could have done with a PowerPoint. Those who did use a PowerPoint did seem to convey what they did a little easier as they did not have to wait for webpages to load and such. Something to consider in the future during pathway. Look back on the last 8 weeks are there patterns emerging in how you handle the projects? I tend to go with the studio assigned work. Then do research, then try and piece together a final project. Annotating my thumbnails and tests to see what worked and what did not work. I tend to almost restart, change, my final ideas before I do them. Excluding the media project, I knew what I wanted to achieve on that one. I also find myself not using the briefs a whole large amount as it confuses me, only using it when I have been off ill or needed to catch up with things. Strengths, weaknesses, where I fit in with ways of working. I definitely feel as if the art mind set in my weakness. I like working closer to a brief or being told who the final outcome is for than working on anything I want. The art project to me felt a little to open ended. Meaning I felt a bit lost in the creation during the initial stages. That being said I found working in the media and design projects to be much more enjoyable and playing to my strengths. Design being the obvious one, working to design something for an organisation that communicates something was much more defined in the areas I needed to hit. Making it easier to create something and like the final outcome. Even if my ideas did change partly during the creation stages, but that was mostly due to me over thinking it and believing I needed something more serious than my initial idea. Likewise media I decided on the v&a as my collection depicted the queen Victoria, making it an obvious link to create something for the museum. Leading to a much more graphic interpretation that could be placed on advertising. List some artists, designers and photographers that inspired you. Daniel Mackie was an artist who inspired me during the art project that lead me to the creation of the pattern print. He works in water colour initially, then scanning his creations in and making them a digital print. His work was playful, the name a parliament of owls being my favourite, and lead me to the further development of my piece as it lead me to research the other print makers in this project. He initially worked on photoshop and used 3D software, but needed to mix things up again 15 years into working as an illustrator, and so moved back to traditional methods. Which I think is very interesting, as you wouldn’t consider moving back to traditional as traditional is much harder than digital, but he found this reinvigorated him and leads to his highly detailed print creations. Eric nagel is my other favourite over all as his collage pieces lead to the creation of my media piece, which I really like the aesthetic of. He works primarily on card and collage and his works tend to be quite small. Really only using magazine photos and not getting much enlarged. His work is similarly bright, colourful and playful with its use of objects to replace the organic parts of his figures, something I found very interesting and fit in with my research of art nouveau and Art Deco. Seeming to express elements of them both. The future. I would like to move into the animation pathway as my ideal next step is the computer animation and design course at Bournemouth or the animation and design course at de montfort university.