Labels (Vanessa)

After our Unit X lecture, I have been thinking that we should introduce some more generic labels to our blog, for easier access to blog posts.

For example how about condensing our current labels to:

• Visual Research
• Events
• Lectures
• Ideas for Group

Perhaps we could add/change these labels on our current blog posts? Just a suggestion, if there are any other ideas for labels put them on here!

Vanessa

DIGITAL VIDEO - IWT

We did a workshop with Mary Stark, an artist who did a degree in Embroidery at MMU, and then moved on to an MA in Photography, working with analogue techniques and combining them with aspects or processes of textiles, about how we can move our work into a more exciting or unexpected place, by using digital software and video. We got shown various types of videos,  advertising using stop motion animation, art fashion show videos, and video artist practitioners videos, showing the large variety of videos that can be shot. We were then taught about the various techniques that are utilised, such as various lengths of shot, (close up's, point of view, long shot) and camera movements like a pan across the screen. We also learnt about storyboards and how they are used to give an idea of what each shot will look like of the video, and we were then asked to create a storyboard for a video we would film in a few days.

We had a theme, which was just to film a certain place, the idea being it was to get us to link it to the general place and arrival theme of Living It groups tasks and also as a simple way of introducing us into video as a format. This was a useful task, as it meant that we are more capable of being able to work with what will be the final outcome for this project, a digital proposal for a piece of work for the new build, be it photography, a maquette or model which is then photographed, or as we've been shown even a video.