The Girl on the bridge.
Angel-A
These are 2 French films i have seen recently. Oddly they are both very similar.
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Monday, 31 May 2010
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
.A round up of what i have been up to over the second year.
MADE A BOOK
I made my first book using blurb.com. The website was recommended by a friend on the course. The soft wear is all free and very easy to use. I loved the process of making the book, i got to use new soft wear and i got to make all the decisions. The book is a selection of photos i took at a Foreign Bird sale organised by my Dad.
I have been Kean to capture such an event since i came across some pictures in a magazine i used to get called +1. It has stopped now but still has a website with the back issues. The Photographers name is Christopher Brazel, he takes photos of bmxing and generally anything that looks interesting. It seems his photos are of things that he and us don't see everyday. His photographic style reminds me of travel photography. They are on here http://www.plus1mag.com/up-content/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdfcontent/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdf.plus1mag.com/up-content/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdfcontent/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdf and are on pages 47-49. I think they are great documentation of an event and also a small culture. I particularly like the photos of the people with their birds says a lot about their passion and pride to be doing what they are doing. Reminds me of when i was doing GCSE art and i took photos of people with their sheds.
DESIGNED A BUSINESS CARD
ALBUM ARTWORK
I am friends with a guy who produces music for people. He happens to have taken a shine to a local band and has designed their website and is kind of managing them a bit. He needed some artwork for their single and for the website. I had a think of what i could do for an indie/rock/pop band and thought about concerts/gigs i had been to. It wasn't long ago i went to see Beyonce which is why she sprung to mind first. I then rememberd this photo i took on the way back from the show. The photo is of my girlfriends ripped tights when we were on the tube back to the hotel. It took me a while to find it and when i did it seemed to be just right. I edited it a bit on photo shop as it was very dark. I remember thinking at the time this would make a good album cover. It is gritty, dark and i guess i feel people can relate to it. Due to it not being set up it could be anyone anywhere. I like the fact it looks like the end of a good night which is just fitting for a live band.
DJING A CHARITY EVENT
I offered to dj a charity event for my friend Harriot. She has entered a modeling competition involving heart FM so i guess a charity event for their charity must look really good. It was in her local pub called the Otter. I had to play charts stuff which was interesting and a bit of a different experience. I used all my own equipment which was great because that's why i have it all...not just to practice on but the speakers filled the pub really well and everything went fine. We raised about £300 which was brilliant.
BLOG
I have started a blog which is more to do with this last term. I like having a blog because it is sometimes just nice to have your thoughts on things on a screen rather than just scribbled down in a book. It has helped me log information and show people what i do and why i do it.
LARAS FILM
My sister is on a film course and is regularly filming for it. I often help her with ideas for films. I like juxtaposing different ages against one another and you can see that in my work. At the point when she needed help deciding on an idea i was doing about b-movies which lead me into watching grind house trailers ect. Me and my sister sat down and tried to come up with something and eventually did. The idea for the film ends up being a female character who changes genre/style as the conventions change. She starts off as a grind house character working in a bar. She finds herself in a situation where a male character is trying to get her to bend over. They argue and because she is a grind house female exploitation styled character she punches him and he leaves. She then goes home and on the way is raped. The female character then turns into what is known as the last girl when she is at home on her own therefore genre changes to horror. She then turns noir when she wants to get her own back.
MORE MAKEUP PHOTOS
More recently i have taken some more makeup photos for a makeup artists portfolio. My sister was the model this time and was made up to look like a gaiesher. The other girl was made up to look like a pin up girl.
MADE A BOOK
I made my first book using blurb.com. The website was recommended by a friend on the course. The soft wear is all free and very easy to use. I loved the process of making the book, i got to use new soft wear and i got to make all the decisions. The book is a selection of photos i took at a Foreign Bird sale organised by my Dad.
I have been Kean to capture such an event since i came across some pictures in a magazine i used to get called +1. It has stopped now but still has a website with the back issues. The Photographers name is Christopher Brazel, he takes photos of bmxing and generally anything that looks interesting. It seems his photos are of things that he and us don't see everyday. His photographic style reminds me of travel photography. They are on here http://www.plus1mag.com/up-content/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdfcontent/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdf.plus1mag.com/up-content/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdfcontent/themes/plus1mag/pdfs/issue14.pdf and are on pages 47-49. I think they are great documentation of an event and also a small culture. I particularly like the photos of the people with their birds says a lot about their passion and pride to be doing what they are doing. Reminds me of when i was doing GCSE art and i took photos of people with their sheds.
DESIGNED A BUSINESS CARD
This is an example of a photo i took for a make up artist. I learnt a lot by doing this shoot because the lighting was SO bad. I think the picture above is too light may have been because of the flash. The purpose of the photos i was taking were for a business card and some maybe for a makeup portfolio.
The image above was what we decided to go with. I put it on photo shop and edited it a bit. I changed this like contrast and also created a black gradient to put over the hair so that we could add white text. I love the colours, the pinks and fleshy tones make it seem very fresh...reminds me of the saying fresh faced.
ALBUM ARTWORK
I am friends with a guy who produces music for people. He happens to have taken a shine to a local band and has designed their website and is kind of managing them a bit. He needed some artwork for their single and for the website. I had a think of what i could do for an indie/rock/pop band and thought about concerts/gigs i had been to. It wasn't long ago i went to see Beyonce which is why she sprung to mind first. I then rememberd this photo i took on the way back from the show. The photo is of my girlfriends ripped tights when we were on the tube back to the hotel. It took me a while to find it and when i did it seemed to be just right. I edited it a bit on photo shop as it was very dark. I remember thinking at the time this would make a good album cover. It is gritty, dark and i guess i feel people can relate to it. Due to it not being set up it could be anyone anywhere. I like the fact it looks like the end of a good night which is just fitting for a live band.
click on the picture to get linked to their site.
DJING A CHARITY EVENT
I offered to dj a charity event for my friend Harriot. She has entered a modeling competition involving heart FM so i guess a charity event for their charity must look really good. It was in her local pub called the Otter. I had to play charts stuff which was interesting and a bit of a different experience. I used all my own equipment which was great because that's why i have it all...not just to practice on but the speakers filled the pub really well and everything went fine. We raised about £300 which was brilliant.
BLOG
I have started a blog which is more to do with this last term. I like having a blog because it is sometimes just nice to have your thoughts on things on a screen rather than just scribbled down in a book. It has helped me log information and show people what i do and why i do it.
LARAS FILM
My sister is on a film course and is regularly filming for it. I often help her with ideas for films. I like juxtaposing different ages against one another and you can see that in my work. At the point when she needed help deciding on an idea i was doing about b-movies which lead me into watching grind house trailers ect. Me and my sister sat down and tried to come up with something and eventually did. The idea for the film ends up being a female character who changes genre/style as the conventions change. She starts off as a grind house character working in a bar. She finds herself in a situation where a male character is trying to get her to bend over. They argue and because she is a grind house female exploitation styled character she punches him and he leaves. She then goes home and on the way is raped. The female character then turns into what is known as the last girl when she is at home on her own therefore genre changes to horror. She then turns noir when she wants to get her own back.
MORE MAKEUP PHOTOS
More recently i have taken some more makeup photos for a makeup artists portfolio. My sister was the model this time and was made up to look like a gaiesher. The other girl was made up to look like a pin up girl.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Some new work I'm working on.
This is my first attempts at a piece of work investigating 'the third part' (its a work in progress). I have come to be interested in this since i had a talk and was asked to consider
how the third space in a work is used and what it does. for instants if you have something behind you and something in front then you are the middle making three pieces. What therefore is your role?
The pieces above are moving image and are from a film called 'the notebook'. I was interested in the kissing scenes ... one reason being people always say i only use horror type films ... and two 'the kiss scene' is often inevitable and is often used in cinema and television. It plays a big part in the narrative of a film, so is therefore important. Due to it being used so much we can tell it is going to happen and this work proves we can still tell it is happening even though we cant see the lips impact. I don't want to go too deeply into kissing but it does beg the question is a kiss just to lips meeting or is it in fact everything that goes with that? is there more to what a kiss is?
For this work you can therefore see i have created a third part that isn't even there. You are in fact creating that middle part ('third part') by pondering on why it isn't there or by imagining what should be there.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
I have started a facebook page caled upload battles. I started it because i noticed that people often upload songs onto facebook via youtube and it is like they almost compete to show people they know a better song than them. ''For those that love their sounds, this should be a wicked chance to spread and hear new music. Once you have requested a battle you will be given a time and date which you must log in for. Those that do not make their allocated log in automatically for-fit their duel. Once both opponents are logged in, the battle will commence. The battles consist of three rounds. Each round will have a category, selected by the judges. For instance, the judges may declare the first round 'the remix round' and so the challengers will be required to select a remix. In the next round the judges may decide ‘something from the ‘90s‘ or ‘female vocal round‘ so on and so forth.The three selected judges will show appreciation for their favoured record by selecting the ‘Like‘ option (with their trigger finger of course) and others are welcome to join in the selectah! Feel free to request a position on the judges panel. Keep checking the page to see which soundboy/girls are lined up and what time battles are happening. Battles will begin when we have twenty plus friends...''
I had a friend write this for me as he is good at writing creativly where as im not good at writing at all. The page has now got 33 friends and has been great fun. I don't compete or judge i just over see everything and post what needs to be posted.
These images were taken in the under pass at Grapes Hill. I have stuck
intimidating gang pictures up from 'The city of god' and 'The Warriors'.
One image is on the left side of the under pass and the other image on the right. You then find yourself in between them looking one way and then the other as though you are stuck in the
middle of a gang conflict. This is the same position that some of the characters in the
films find themselves.
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