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Because we shot all the footage in one day, the lighting became inconsistent as limited time pressured us to be less careful when setting up lighting for each shot. However, in post production, we manages to colour correct each seen, changing tones, adding in green tones to take out the pinkish tones in some of the shots. As well as this we upped the exposure and reduced the whites to create a more balanced image. We also included some metallic noises to add to the scrunching and unravelling of the wire ball.

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Some of our visual research included Alexander Calder and William Kentridge. In particular William Kentridge’s material of reversed videos and imagery were a huge inspiration to our work. We realised that by crushing wire models we had already made and playing that footage forward and backwards made a less time consuming and easier way to making our footage. Our final storyboard consisted of a ball of chaos that Figaro and Susanna attempt to break out of, in the end they do break free and the last image is them spinning around and dancing and then standing next to each other holding hands. 

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At first we wished to explore the relationship between the characters Figaro, Susanna and The Count, particularly the Count’s attempts to seduce Susanna, and his exploitation of his power, since both Figaro and Susanna are servants to the Count. At this time we also were experimenting using an overhead projector, and placing various materials on the projector screen as well as on the wall. We represented the Count in a shadow that was projected onto the wall, over metal wire, and appeared to be much larger than other characters. 

We went through various storyboards, and intended on using various materials together to tell the story, however we were given feedback that using multiple materials made the imagery confusing and hard to understand the storyline, so we decided to refine our materials down to only using wire. 

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The Marriage of Figaro is the opera given to our group for the Royal Opera House project. At the beginning of our research we were interested in the way music correlated with the hand movements of the conductor of the orchestra, and also the jolting movements of the other sections of the orchestra.

After researching the story line of The Marriage of Figaro, we discovered that the opera all takes place across the course of 1 day, which exemplified the chaos that takes place throughout the story line. We discovered the main themes we wished to explore were status, chaos and humour. 

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Here is my outcome for the Saturation project on the correlation of domestic abuse and England’s performance in the World Cup. 

As the nature of the content of the video is very upsetting, I wanted to approach the project with a sensitive tone, which I believe hand drawn animation contains. The type was influenced by artist Barbara Kruger, and intended to look like newspaper headlines. 

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The Saturation Project Brief was an attempt to re-present an issue that came up in the news during the past summer, but was also an issue that we felt perhaps wasn’t given enough attention, or had saturated quickly, and then forgotten about. A topic I felt strongly about during the world cup was the statistics that came out around the subject of Domestic Abuse and the correlation between domestic violence towards women and the standard that England played to in the World Cup 2018... e.g domestic abuse rose by 26% when England played and by 38% when England lost. In the chaos and excitement around the world cup, I feel as though this vital reflection on society was swept under the carpet, so I wish to move it under the spotlight once again as a reiteration. The brief also explained that we were not expected to propose a solution to a problem, but to simply display the issue as a problem that needed attention and potentially a solution.

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Story board no.2 

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Here is the first storyboard for our Authorial animation. The idea is that the character, Sally, is attempting to send letters in various forms such as a paper aeroplane, a letter in a bottle and a letter tied to a balloon, as an attempt to contact someone who can offer her advice on looking after her brother with a learning difficulty. 

However, after some consideration, we decided to cut back the storyboard to one method of communication, the message in the bottle. A woman isolated on an island with a vast sea around her, sending messages in bottles hoping for a response, became a metaphor for someone attempting to contact someone online on a vast forum and hoping for a response. 

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Some character development from my Authorial Project. 

Myself and Sorrel have been commissioned to make an animation for the charity Mencap, as a promotion for their online forum; Mencap Family Hub. 

We knew that we wanted to work with paper cut outs, so I began by cutting out shapes of heads at different angles and playing with facial features and textures in photoshop. However, after assessing the storyboard, we felt that a more naturalistic style for our characters would be more appropriate, since the backgrounds are cut from coloured paper.

We also wanted to keep these brushstroke textures on the cheeks of our characters, however after testing, it looked awkward against the simple cut out backgrounds, and we thought the characters would look better if they also looked as though they were cut from paper. So, the characters became minimal in outline.

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TALKING HEADS- COLLABORATION.

Mitch Miller was interesting to listen to as he is an illustrator who made maps according to who lives and works in the location. The “Dialectogram” is what he has named them, which is a completely made up word. He draws dialectograms of various locations, such as libraries, galleries and it is a form of communication. He finds drawing maps from a bird’s eye view interesting as it is taken from a perspective that distances the audience from the problem or issue. 

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TALKING HEADS

Since my groups talk was around the subject of Education, our group has decided to design our double page spread in the format of a children’s colouring book. The pages will include a dot to dot, stickers, a word search and spot the difference. Each side of the page will be about either Yeni Kim, or Matt Booker, the two artists who spoke about their educational experiences. The main factor that we found most interesting in both of their talks was their experience of education in different countries. 

Yeni had studied her BA in South Korea, and explained how she felt she found her own personal way of working and interests once she had begun studying in the UK doing her MA in illustration and storytelling.

Matt had worked in India as a teacher on a drawing course after graduating, and he explained how “good” art in India is the art that is most representative of what we see. Whilst he was teaching, he enjoyed opening the students’ minds and slowly demonstrating to them that perhaps representation wasn’t the most important part of image making. 

So... in the format of a children’s exercise book, we will demonstrate the the viewer the different experiences of education that both Matt and Yeni had compared to that of the UK. For example, the viewer is encouraged to make a collage out of the stickers provided, collage being one of Yeni’s preferred ways of image making when living in South Korea, and quickly becoming tired of it once moving to the UK and seeing it everywhere. 

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TROUBLE IN PARADISE EXHIBITION

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HIVE MIND

When asking myself what a ‘Hive mind’ meant to me, I was quickly attracted to the idea of collections, keeping things close to you because they seem important to keep, to achieve an ultimate goal, but in reality have no purpose to you anymore. I was interested in how people can subconsciously collect a lot of material without even realising... such as the mountain of receipts you find in your pocket to or purse. 

I wanted to compare this subconscious collecting to the collection of precious items that hold value. I went to the Horniman Museum to do some location drawings, and record the collections of rare, extinct and beautiful animals. 

When looking at these two ideas next to each other, I realised a visual way of demonstrating this subconscious collecting of unnecessary items that people doing unknowingly on a day to day basis, would be to make these precious items that I saw at the Horniman Museum out of found items in friends jacket pockets. Making something overlooked, yet kept because at one point deemed necessary, into something precious. 

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LOCATION DRAWING

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Trouble In Paradise.

Our response to trouble in paradise, is intended to infer to the viewer the rising levels of plastic in the oceans. By making sea creatures entirely our of plastic, visually this idea is transferred quickly. We intend to create a dinner table setting as an installation in the exhibition, where a restaurant table will be set beautifully, whilst a mound of plastic fish sits in the middle of the table, so copious that it floods onto the floor.  In doing so, we hope to comment on human greed, and obsessive consumption of fish, even though we consume plastic through eating fish, this doesn’t stop our consumption. 

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TALKING HEADS with Alice Moloney

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TALKING HEADS with Matt Booker and Yeni Kim.

This weeks talking heads focused on the topic of Education.

After graduating from Kingston, Matt was able to work in the university as a print technician, however quickly found himself working as an artist in various residencies. His project Stomping Grounds focused on the juxtaposition of shopping centres  with a local artist community in an allotment, funded by the Metal Arts Organisation. Matt has also experienced teaching abroad after graduating a postgraduate course in drawing. 

Yeni studied her degree in South Korea, and after graduating worker as a UX designer. After becoming tired and “bored”, she decided to move to the UK to study her MA in illustrating and storytelling. Yeni worked multiple jobs as a freelance illustrator, becoming an assistant teacher in South Korea and working with Orla Kieler as a designer. Yeni is now studying a PHD and explained how she easily becomes bored of one job, and wants to begin a new journey and something new. 

As a group we were interested in how Matt and Yeni both had experience in teaching/learning in different countries and cultures and wanted to know how teaching methods or their learning experiences changed depending on the country. Matt explained how working with children inspired him, since they had such raw energy, that he “wished he still had”. He also explained how when teaching in India, the culture’s view on “good” art was very representational. He enjoyed subtly introducing to the students that representation isn’t the only point to image making, as it opened their eyes to a whole new world of art. Yeni explained that when studying in South Korea she was unable to find her niche, and felt as though she didn’t have the freedom to fully explore her own interests.