Moving Image & Photography

This week was the turn of Moving Image & Photography – a pathway that I am considering for Part 2 of Foundation. I was really looking forward to creating an animation as I’ve done a bit of animating before but not in great detail. However, the first task of the week was to create a photo narrative where 12 photos would be used to tell a story. The theme of the narrative was Change and we decided to tell the story of a teddy bear who was thrown away and damaged.

 

I think our final outcome was successful with a variety of camera angles, and the story was clearly understood by everyone. However, our final piece had 13 photos rather than 12, and the last two photos were very similar. If we were to continue with the project, we would have needed to solve that small editing issue, which would also have improved the final layout by making it a neat grid. From our photography project, we were recommended to look at the work of Martin Parr and Anna Fox, due to the bright colours and objects we used in our work.

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The next task of the week was to create a short animation morphing from one object into another using in-between animation. To gain inspiration for the task, we watched several examples of animation:

MUTO, a wall painted animation by BLU

Love & Theft by Andreas Hykade

Your Face by Bill Plympton

http://tu.tv/videos/bill-plympton-your-face-short-fi

My chosen object was a teacup which I had to morph into a plug. I chose to animate the plug breaking through the teacup and shattering it.

After drawing the key frames of the start image – the teacup – and the end image – the plug – I drew the in-between frame. I then drew the frame in between the first image and the middle image, and the frame in between the middle image and the last image, and so on… After drawing 19 frames, I had a complete and smooth animation. When my animation was combined with the other members of my group, we had a finished, successful animation.

Fine Art

This week, I began the Fine Art rotation of my Foundation course. The project set was to create work around the theme of ‘Traces’.

I decided to create work around the theme of Internet Privacy and looked into the idea of being able to trace any information about any person online. I collected information about myself which could be found online: photos, my Facebook profile, emails, bank statements, order history, etc.

 

To add a twist to this collection of items, I decided to pixelate and delete key bits of information. I wanted to explore the idea of how people wouldn’t give out private information in public but would freely put it up on the Internet where anyone could see it.

My final piece for the project was an installation using these pieces of information. At the centre of the piece was a broken laptop surrounded by the information in a sort of diagram.

I was really pleased with the outcome of my final piece as it had quite a dark, clinical tone to it which matched the theme and subject well. The word ‘traces’ was reflected in the use of string which linked the information and its origins.

I enjoyed my first rotation subject even though I found it quite difficult to generate ideas in a subject that is so free. Also, as I am used to a more specific, functional design brief, I found it more tricky to create a piece of art rather than a piece of design.