Showing posts with label PPD2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PPD2. Show all posts
5OUP & BEHANCE:
I created myself a 5oup profile today, a artist networking site that's very new. Similar to behance (which I already have an account with). It seems like a small but diverse community with some really talented people. I hope to use it to speak to other photographers and see what information I can get on working freelance. Lets get networking.
WHAT IS A LIVE PROJECT:
"Being a photographer is a great way to make a living. Sure it’s challenging, but anything worth doing is. Sure it takes talent and hard work, but anything worth doing does. But c’mon, I’m not saving the world here." Steve Buchanan.
I want to use this project to gain experience in working with clients. Not being entirely certain of my plan after my degree I want to explore as many paths as possible and that will be how I use this project. I want to gain experience as a freelance photographer. I work for myself and many of my projects are self directed, it will be interesting to have another input and also one of a musician as opposed to the artistic input I have from my piers.
I want to use this project to gain experience in working with clients. Not being entirely certain of my plan after my degree I want to explore as many paths as possible and that will be how I use this project. I want to gain experience as a freelance photographer. I work for myself and many of my projects are self directed, it will be interesting to have another input and also one of a musician as opposed to the artistic input I have from my piers.
VISUAL LANGUAGE EVALUATION:
This brief despite its potential I feel I haven’t excelled in as well as I thought. This was due to a number of reasons. Firstly that the brief was continued over Christmas and much went on where I wasn’t able to do any work. Secondly I felt very creatively stunted for the entire course of the brief, I felt it was hard for me to come up with a subject I was passionate about, and I went down many more avenues than I normally do. Through this I learnt a lot that could work for me in other briefs when I feel the time is right however it wasn’t appropriate this time and because of that I wasted a lot of time looking around for inspiration. My time was managed badly as I mention in many of my evaluations and I feel that this is something I definitely need to work on, and will make a conscious effort to.
I felt my research methods have improved and I am now more motivated to get on with looking into things and learning about the world. Earlier this week I read a quote from a small time graphic designer in which he said that his best way of getting ideas was to read and learn about things and be doing this all the time, whether they be graphic design based or not. I feel my work will definitely benefit from this.
I am happy with the context of my work and I feel this is one of my strengths, I think there is a lot of meaning behind the pieces that I have done for this brief and much meaning that can also be determined as questions, I hope that people have looked at my work in the exhibition and questioned it and maybe even themselves.
This brief didn’t go the way I had wished it would, and ideally I could have come up with my final idea much earlier on and therefore saved myself a lot of wasted time. However I feel I did the best I could in the time I was given and I would like to work with these pieces much more to make them worthy of portfolio work. I learnt how to bookbind and how to use indesign in this brief and I will find that very useful for more of my briefs. I will definitely be making books again as it is something I have wanted to do for a while but never had the experience.
Overall this brief taught me a lot, much of which was practical for my work and the experience of having an exhibition was excellent as the last time I had one was at GCSE level. I hope to make more of having my work exhibited next time and try to get more pieces up. This brief has also taught me a lot about myself, I could never really say I’ve had creative block however now I am able to as I experienced it through so much of the beginning of this brief, this has taught me ways to prevent this from happening and the keep my mind working and engaged with the world all the time.
I felt my research methods have improved and I am now more motivated to get on with looking into things and learning about the world. Earlier this week I read a quote from a small time graphic designer in which he said that his best way of getting ideas was to read and learn about things and be doing this all the time, whether they be graphic design based or not. I feel my work will definitely benefit from this.
I am happy with the context of my work and I feel this is one of my strengths, I think there is a lot of meaning behind the pieces that I have done for this brief and much meaning that can also be determined as questions, I hope that people have looked at my work in the exhibition and questioned it and maybe even themselves.
This brief didn’t go the way I had wished it would, and ideally I could have come up with my final idea much earlier on and therefore saved myself a lot of wasted time. However I feel I did the best I could in the time I was given and I would like to work with these pieces much more to make them worthy of portfolio work. I learnt how to bookbind and how to use indesign in this brief and I will find that very useful for more of my briefs. I will definitely be making books again as it is something I have wanted to do for a while but never had the experience.
Overall this brief taught me a lot, much of which was practical for my work and the experience of having an exhibition was excellent as the last time I had one was at GCSE level. I hope to make more of having my work exhibited next time and try to get more pieces up. This brief has also taught me a lot about myself, I could never really say I’ve had creative block however now I am able to as I experienced it through so much of the beginning of this brief, this has taught me ways to prevent this from happening and the keep my mind working and engaged with the world all the time.
THE EXHIBITION:
The exhibition went really well and I had a lot of fun. I had some of my piers interested in my work which was good. And all in all I felt it was a real success for the whole of viscom.
COMTECH EVALUATION:
Unlike most students in Year 2 Visual Communication this was my first Communication Technology brief. Having moved from advertising I hadn’t experimented with much technology so far. My main interest has always been photography however at the start of this year I became intrigued by the video production process. This then became my main group for this brief. I hadn’t used video in a few years and therefore felt that I needed to renew my existing skills and built some new ones too.
I initially chose to go down a documentary route and collaborated with other students in my group to create a short film with a subject matter that we were all interested in. The IOU campaign was something that effected me as a student and this was important to my work as I had a strong interest in the project. I have learnt from this brief that when creating self-directed projects I must choose something I am very interested in as I will loose attention quickly. Unfortunately this project seemed initially to grab me however the technical aspects of it were not what I wanted to be experimenting in.
After feeling quite lost from my interest in the technical side of documentary film making becoming obsolete I decided to take on Christian’s idea of ‘How to make a cup of tea’. This was not one of my own ideas however I feel I created something that represented some of my interests in the editing process. I was able to learn filters used within Final Cut Pro and about frame rates, all of which will help me in future projects.
Much of what I learnt in this brief was not centered around the tutorials I attended but more interaction with computer technicians. For instance throughout this entire assignment I have received much help from Matt in the AV suite and have learnt Final Cut Pro, After Effects and filming techniques, which is much more than I leartnt in the Photoshop or Final Cut Express tutorials I attended.
Filming itself on this brief came back to me very fast as I have used DV and AV cameras before. However the most trouble I had was getting to grips with the software involved. From this I have learnt that a main factor in a brief where you will be literally throwing yourself into things you’ve never done before is to use time management effectively. This is something I have always struggled with, this brief proves that as my final piece wasn’t at the standard I would have wanted it. I feel I underestimated the lengthy processes when using advanced software like After Effects.
Within this brief I was able to play around with other areas of technology like the use of the different lenses available on still film cameras and very basic web design. The web design came as a out of college brief. I set myself to create a homepage for my blogs however when I realised how much I had learnt from it I though it appropriate to connect back to the Comm Tech brief.
Research within this brief was extremely helpful and as a person who has always disliked this aspect of a project I found that researching around self-directed briefs was much more interesting as I was obviously already involved in these ideas. I felt learning was almost sub-conscious as the briefs I set myself were centred around my interests already.
Within each of my briefs that I set myself I got something wrong and at times it could be quite frustrating, however earlier into the project I was able to go back and correct myself. Although as my time management skills were not nearly up to scratch the last week or so before the deadline I found myself making big mistakes that would involve much work to correct, work that I didn’t have enough time to do. Therefore unfortunately I am not at all happy with my final piece, the idea was changed a lot and was only filmed a week before the deadline, I’m glad that I waited long enough to get the idea and storyboard perfect as this meant that the filming went much smoother. However I had completely underestimated the time consuming editing process. Having not used After Effects before I would leave myself much more time for such an intricate program in the future. Despite all these disappointing experiences of slipping up and getting things wrong I have learnt not to make the same mistakes again, which I think was I fundamental learning curve in this brief for me.
I feel much more educated in the field I chose and am able to understand the processes of many things much better. This has been a very helpful brief in learning things. When I started this assignment I felt I would have things to put in my portfolio at the end, this unfortunately did not happen and I feel that the final pieces created in the Comm Tech brief are not up to the standards I wish them to be. However what I have gained from this is much more important that a final piece as I am able to, in my own time, bring my ideas to life through the medium of video and this, in my opinion, is a much valued talent. Overall with the disappointment of my final pieces I am happy that I am now competent enough to go back and do what I need to do to make them portfolio pieces.
I initially chose to go down a documentary route and collaborated with other students in my group to create a short film with a subject matter that we were all interested in. The IOU campaign was something that effected me as a student and this was important to my work as I had a strong interest in the project. I have learnt from this brief that when creating self-directed projects I must choose something I am very interested in as I will loose attention quickly. Unfortunately this project seemed initially to grab me however the technical aspects of it were not what I wanted to be experimenting in.
After feeling quite lost from my interest in the technical side of documentary film making becoming obsolete I decided to take on Christian’s idea of ‘How to make a cup of tea’. This was not one of my own ideas however I feel I created something that represented some of my interests in the editing process. I was able to learn filters used within Final Cut Pro and about frame rates, all of which will help me in future projects.
Much of what I learnt in this brief was not centered around the tutorials I attended but more interaction with computer technicians. For instance throughout this entire assignment I have received much help from Matt in the AV suite and have learnt Final Cut Pro, After Effects and filming techniques, which is much more than I leartnt in the Photoshop or Final Cut Express tutorials I attended.
Filming itself on this brief came back to me very fast as I have used DV and AV cameras before. However the most trouble I had was getting to grips with the software involved. From this I have learnt that a main factor in a brief where you will be literally throwing yourself into things you’ve never done before is to use time management effectively. This is something I have always struggled with, this brief proves that as my final piece wasn’t at the standard I would have wanted it. I feel I underestimated the lengthy processes when using advanced software like After Effects.
Within this brief I was able to play around with other areas of technology like the use of the different lenses available on still film cameras and very basic web design. The web design came as a out of college brief. I set myself to create a homepage for my blogs however when I realised how much I had learnt from it I though it appropriate to connect back to the Comm Tech brief.
Research within this brief was extremely helpful and as a person who has always disliked this aspect of a project I found that researching around self-directed briefs was much more interesting as I was obviously already involved in these ideas. I felt learning was almost sub-conscious as the briefs I set myself were centred around my interests already.
Within each of my briefs that I set myself I got something wrong and at times it could be quite frustrating, however earlier into the project I was able to go back and correct myself. Although as my time management skills were not nearly up to scratch the last week or so before the deadline I found myself making big mistakes that would involve much work to correct, work that I didn’t have enough time to do. Therefore unfortunately I am not at all happy with my final piece, the idea was changed a lot and was only filmed a week before the deadline, I’m glad that I waited long enough to get the idea and storyboard perfect as this meant that the filming went much smoother. However I had completely underestimated the time consuming editing process. Having not used After Effects before I would leave myself much more time for such an intricate program in the future. Despite all these disappointing experiences of slipping up and getting things wrong I have learnt not to make the same mistakes again, which I think was I fundamental learning curve in this brief for me.
I feel much more educated in the field I chose and am able to understand the processes of many things much better. This has been a very helpful brief in learning things. When I started this assignment I felt I would have things to put in my portfolio at the end, this unfortunately did not happen and I feel that the final pieces created in the Comm Tech brief are not up to the standards I wish them to be. However what I have gained from this is much more important that a final piece as I am able to, in my own time, bring my ideas to life through the medium of video and this, in my opinion, is a much valued talent. Overall with the disappointment of my final pieces I am happy that I am now competent enough to go back and do what I need to do to make them portfolio pieces.
HOMEPAGE FOR MY BLOG:
With all the separate lessons we have been taking part in and all the blogs we have been asked to create for each of these subjects, including the work that I do outside of college I decided to set up a homepage for all of my blogs with links to each of these separate blogs therefore you are able to access one page and through that all of my degree work.
I considered different blog hosting sites to do it on such as wordpress and tumblr however having learnt blogging on blogspot and it was one of the most simple i decided to use that site. I then had to decided how to set out my blog page. I chose to have a main image and links underneath this, these links are put into an untitled post as to set them out on the page neatly.
The heading image I used:
I considered different blog hosting sites to do it on such as wordpress and tumblr however having learnt blogging on blogspot and it was one of the most simple i decided to use that site. I then had to decided how to set out my blog page. I chose to have a main image and links underneath this, these links are put into an untitled post as to set them out on the page neatly.
The heading image I used:
By having the image without a blogger border meant that the whole page flowed much better.
I then went online to look up html that would allow me to hide the blogger header and change the page icon from a blogger one to my own image.
And finally on all my blogs that were linked I placed a widget box into which I inserted html to create a link back to the initial homepage, which you can see on this blog in the top right corner just after my heading image.
A few years ago I learnt quite a lot of html through using myspace and I think it's important how you present your work so I used my html knowledge and just adapted it to blogger and created my own homepage.
I then went online to look up html that would allow me to hide the blogger header and change the page icon from a blogger one to my own image.
And finally on all my blogs that were linked I placed a widget box into which I inserted html to create a link back to the initial homepage, which you can see on this blog in the top right corner just after my heading image.
A few years ago I learnt quite a lot of html through using myspace and I think it's important how you present your work so I used my html knowledge and just adapted it to blogger and created my own homepage.
A CUP OF TEA: FINAL
Finally uploaded to my blog.
This project taught me a lot of things. I know I was able to do basic editing, just cutting things together because of taking part in the Final Cut workshop. However cutting shots from different angles together was something I'd never done before on Final Cut, this turned out to be a relatively easy process once I leant how to zoom into the timeline and edit it frame by frame, so I was able to get the cuts perfect. Another thing I learnt about was all the effects that were put on the video, I learnt where to find them, what they did and how to use them for appropriate impact. And finally I learnt about exporting, specifically how to do it in different frame rates. This was a good project to set myself at this point as I had played around with Final Cut Pro but now I was able to familiarise myself with it completely as well as learning new effects and tricks that will become handy in the future.
FIRST THINGS FIRST:
These are genuinely some of the most intelligently written and inspiring pieces of text I've ever read.
They really allow me to understand why the send and receive brief is so important to who I am. After coming from advertising (a soulless form of creativity in my opinion) it's so refreshing to read what I have really been thinking for much of my adult life.
The concept that we, as visual communicators, could make a difference to the world is something that I have been waiting for someone to allow me to think. Caught up in a society that thrives on money I feel its time to sit back at take a look at what we have all become, a group of people that only care where the next burger king and topshop is going to be...and how we can cash in on it.
I want to make a difference that is real...fuck this industrialized, fast food world, take a look at what's right there infront of you, poverty, war, prejudice and people who don't give a shit.
No more am I this person who doesn't give a shit.
I give a shit and if I change the opinions of one person, that's one less casualty wounded by our civilization.
They really allow me to understand why the send and receive brief is so important to who I am. After coming from advertising (a soulless form of creativity in my opinion) it's so refreshing to read what I have really been thinking for much of my adult life.
The concept that we, as visual communicators, could make a difference to the world is something that I have been waiting for someone to allow me to think. Caught up in a society that thrives on money I feel its time to sit back at take a look at what we have all become, a group of people that only care where the next burger king and topshop is going to be...and how we can cash in on it.
I want to make a difference that is real...fuck this industrialized, fast food world, take a look at what's right there infront of you, poverty, war, prejudice and people who don't give a shit.
No more am I this person who doesn't give a shit.
I give a shit and if I change the opinions of one person, that's one less casualty wounded by our civilization.
PPD2 INTRO:
I have come to this course having missed the first year and currently have a media BTEC, half a year of an art foundation and a year of advertising behind me. An interesting mix, but are all relative to viscom. This year I want to learn 'what is my passion'. I know I am interested in photography, which I have been incorporating into my work for years now, I am also very interested in video, which I havn't done since my BTEC and would like to experiment and learn about much more. I would like to become much more educated in these two areas. I already have reasonable knowledge in them both however not nearly at a professional standard.
INTRO TO VISCOM:
A new year a new course.
My choice to change from advertising to visual communication was one that I feel will benifit me massively.
I always felt that the commercialism of advertising wasn't for me, and that ultimately I wanted to leave my degree and do something that meant something to the world...not selling jammie dodgers!
Having only been on this course for a week I feel that viscom will enable me to do this, I feel most of all that I have much more enthusiasm for viscom.
My choice to change from advertising to visual communication was one that I feel will benifit me massively.
I always felt that the commercialism of advertising wasn't for me, and that ultimately I wanted to leave my degree and do something that meant something to the world...not selling jammie dodgers!
Having only been on this course for a week I feel that viscom will enable me to do this, I feel most of all that I have much more enthusiasm for viscom.
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