Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Feedback Tutorial
Today I had my feedback tutorial with Will, which I thought went well. When marking myself I didn't have a clue as to what level I was up to and also felt quite flustered as I had just done my Assessment and spoke about my work. I found the feed back very usual and definitely have some leads to continue with. My goals for the next few weeks are to research new artists suggested to me and carry on with the idea of video portraits, but in different situations. I think this is quite tricky because the main element of the portraits I want to make is to be unconscious of the camera, but this is hard to do so, as it is myself initially making them. I also need to begin to make plans for networking for next term.
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Review Show and Assessment
When putting up my piece I decided to project it onto the wall and have headphones so that the viewer could listen to it if they wanted to. With it being exhibited in the Link Gallery I knew there would be a lot of passers by and the chances of them to stop and watch the video for too long were quite slim, but I didn't really care about that.
When putting up the piece and projecting it onto white card, I got feedback from people that when I was sat still it looked like a photograph or painting and was quite surprising when I start moving in it. Also people said when they began to listen to the footage they were drawn in and wanted to carry on listening. These were all new comments to me, and I liked how from watching it on my laptop to portraying it in an exhibition changed the perception of the piece. When first watching the footage, I found it really uncomfortable and hard to watch, but looking back from that I like that, and I think it's quite brave of me to put that footage out in public, it has bizarrely made me feel more confident.
I left the footage raw and unedited at one hour, but did experiment with a 2 minute cut version. I didn't think it worked well at all, because what I was experimenting with was how I unfolded and acted in front of a camera, not necessarily the contrast between the two halves of footage.
In my Assessment I found that 5 minutes was not enough and I had so much more to talk about. I thought I spoke about my work clearly though and got some good feedback.
When putting up the piece and projecting it onto white card, I got feedback from people that when I was sat still it looked like a photograph or painting and was quite surprising when I start moving in it. Also people said when they began to listen to the footage they were drawn in and wanted to carry on listening. These were all new comments to me, and I liked how from watching it on my laptop to portraying it in an exhibition changed the perception of the piece. When first watching the footage, I found it really uncomfortable and hard to watch, but looking back from that I like that, and I think it's quite brave of me to put that footage out in public, it has bizarrely made me feel more confident.
I left the footage raw and unedited at one hour, but did experiment with a 2 minute cut version. I didn't think it worked well at all, because what I was experimenting with was how I unfolded and acted in front of a camera, not necessarily the contrast between the two halves of footage.
In my Assessment I found that 5 minutes was not enough and I had so much more to talk about. I thought I spoke about my work clearly though and got some good feedback.
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