Need to borrow an audio recorder (edirol) to record ambient noises.
idea of creating a book as a potential outcome for this project, the idea of the found object.
look at:- Martin Parr (his collection. i.e watches of Saddam Hussein) 'Boring Postcards' book
- John Hinde
what makes a book?/keep fonts simple/ rhythm in book.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Friday, 26 October 2007
..?
I have really been contemplating going to liverpool to look more in depth into the places the images were taken. If i were to go by train it would take about 4.20 hours. ?? i would need to plan it properly, but it's something i could do next week. i like the idea of re-photographing these areas, as they are quite banal, seeing what has changed if anything, documenting my journey around liverpool as i try to find these places, the slides are tagged and stat where they are so it's not just guessing.
TUTORIAL with Gareth . . . 26/10/07
TUTORIAL: a podcast can be created using garageband. Difference between slide projection and digital, Filming the projection?
things to do: - get maps of the area depicted in the slides.
- go to liverpool and visit these places ? Re-photograph (audio tour)
use final cut pro (ideal for editing, phasing in and out,etc --> podcast
Use a cast, talkng about slides, fictionalise. (Lee and Tony) group of people talking like its them who took the images, went to these places,etc.
use a dictaphone > record the background/ambient noise then layer it with the 'talk' over the top to create layers.
things to do: - get maps of the area depicted in the slides.
- go to liverpool and visit these places ? Re-photograph (audio tour)
use final cut pro (ideal for editing, phasing in and out,etc --> podcast
Use a cast, talkng about slides, fictionalise. (Lee and Tony) group of people talking like its them who took the images, went to these places,etc.
use a dictaphone > record the background/ambient noise then layer it with the 'talk' over the top to create layers.
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Open Day 25/10/07
Open day:
This didn't relate to my project, but looking at digitial media through the use of projectors and video cameras allows ideas to be generated in how to create an installation and could be something i use in the future.
This didn't relate to my project, but looking at digitial media through the use of projectors and video cameras allows ideas to be generated in how to create an installation and could be something i use in the future.
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
'The Conversation' by Francis Ford Coppola
Extract from the 1974 film 'The Conversation' by F.F.Coppola. The idea of audio having such significance, interpreting different meanings by certain words obtained through surveiliance.
"Coppola has cited Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) as a key influence on his conceptualization of the film's themes, such as surveillance versus participation" (wikipedia.org)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2sNtH39bU
Interim Tutorial ... Mon 22nd Oct '07
Brad Butler 'Non Places' <--book (talked about in Nicky Hamylns work)
narrative of events telling a story (empty areas read things in an image void of text)
disparity in images, put into a narrative.
'Black Tower' John Smith < video and film works
-Fictional narrative - telling a story, make it up (people in images)
dscription/voice overs --> talking about elements in frame, particular detail.
-'Blow Up' (film) takes photographs in a park in one scene develops it a sees a body and a gun in the hedge, by blowing up the image to get a better view and detail.
final outcome/possibles? - slide projection/ or Ipod Video download.
The places/slides are quite banal, construct a meaning. e.g.
the park - rape or murder could have occured in these images
the road - hit and run, etc
'a picture contains a thousand words' an image can project different meaninga to different people.
22 slides in total that i have at the moment, need to construct a story around the slides, scripted.
narrative of events telling a story (empty areas read things in an image void of text)
disparity in images, put into a narrative.
'Black Tower' John Smith < video and film works
-Fictional narrative - telling a story, make it up (people in images)
dscription/voice overs --> talking about elements in frame, particular detail.
-'Blow Up' (film) takes photographs in a park in one scene develops it a sees a body and a gun in the hedge, by blowing up the image to get a better view and detail.
final outcome/possibles? - slide projection/ or Ipod Video download.
The places/slides are quite banal, construct a meaning. e.g.
the park - rape or murder could have occured in these images
the road - hit and run, etc
'a picture contains a thousand words' an image can project different meaninga to different people.
22 slides in total that i have at the moment, need to construct a story around the slides, scripted.
TUTORIAL with Gareth . . . 18/10/07
use www.youtube.com as a reference for videos, if i am unable to get them out of library.
John Smith VHS: Artist Film and Video 'The girl chewing gum'( narrating over filming) / 'The Black Tower'
-diegesis (diegetic [record video footage diegetic real time] and non diegetic [recording from yesterday])
'The Conversation' Directed by F.F.Coppola (plays with off-screen sound)
'Non places'
Voice objective description (no emotion) banal voice. Storybook (editing them together to get description/sound?)
John Smith VHS: Artist Film and Video 'The girl chewing gum'( narrating over filming) / 'The Black Tower'
-diegesis (diegetic [record video footage diegetic real time] and non diegetic [recording from yesterday])
'The Conversation' Directed by F.F.Coppola (plays with off-screen sound)
'Non places'
Voice objective description (no emotion) banal voice. Storybook (editing them together to get description/sound?)
Thursday, 18 October 2007
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Slides
titled 'Sefton Park'
An example of some of the slides which i had scanned into a computer at college, they were found at a charity/fleamarket place in Rochester some of them date back to the mid 60's and are from Liverpool as stated from the captions written in the slide covers. Questions relating to who took these images and why? as they are quite bland, but this in itself adds an interest to them, something that can be read into, the 'holiday photo souvenir' type image.
Tuesday 16th October 2007 --> About ideas...
Looking more at the transitional/language aspect of what i have researched so far. (Codes/symbols found within an art piece)
Going back to the slides i found in charity shop (hopefully finding more, i have about 16 at the moment or is this enough?)
IDEA: Having the slides through a projector (to what scale, small or enlarged i quite like the idea of the smaller image almost the same size as the 35mm neg, the viewer would have to get close to the image to view details.) <--something to think about. Audio description ---> slides (e.g "Slide 1, within this slide the building takes up most if the frame, colours/weather, etc what is thought about the slide) but having the audio description not in a particular order, so it doesnt match the projection, adds a pyschological aspect to the work, would people believe what they see or what they are told? Link to mind games played on people e.g;
" 3 lines of different sizes are drawn on a classroom board, one being obviously longer then the other 2, one person goes out of the room and the remaining people point to a line that is not the longest when the person returns do they submit to peer pressure and take it at face value that the line they are pointing at is the longest ( even if it is not) or do they question it?)"
Have the audio in quite a banal voice and listened through walkman headsets, so as the person moves around or pauses the tape for whatever reason they affect what they hear and when.
Suggestion 2- put copies of the slides around college and have a check of sheet people can use to see whether they have found them all.
RESEARCH: Fiona Banner 'The Nam'
Joseph Kosuth ' One and 3 chairs'
Martha Rosler 'The bowery as too inadicate a description' looks at problems in photography the person, links images related to the homeless around this area in new york in the 80's e.g a beer can on steps and has a projection if text relating to drunk e.g 'squiffy/comotose' as seen in the images below:
Also look at 2 Ronnie's mastermind sketch as a point of reference. And Epson Printer advert that was present in the London underground.
Going back to the slides i found in charity shop (hopefully finding more, i have about 16 at the moment or is this enough?)
IDEA: Having the slides through a projector (to what scale, small or enlarged i quite like the idea of the smaller image almost the same size as the 35mm neg, the viewer would have to get close to the image to view details.) <--something to think about. Audio description ---> slides (e.g "Slide 1, within this slide the building takes up most if the frame, colours/weather, etc what is thought about the slide) but having the audio description not in a particular order, so it doesnt match the projection, adds a pyschological aspect to the work, would people believe what they see or what they are told? Link to mind games played on people e.g;
" 3 lines of different sizes are drawn on a classroom board, one being obviously longer then the other 2, one person goes out of the room and the remaining people point to a line that is not the longest when the person returns do they submit to peer pressure and take it at face value that the line they are pointing at is the longest ( even if it is not) or do they question it?)"
Have the audio in quite a banal voice and listened through walkman headsets, so as the person moves around or pauses the tape for whatever reason they affect what they hear and when.
Suggestion 2- put copies of the slides around college and have a check of sheet people can use to see whether they have found them all.
RESEARCH: Fiona Banner 'The Nam'
Joseph Kosuth ' One and 3 chairs'
Martha Rosler 'The bowery as too inadicate a description' looks at problems in photography the person, links images related to the homeless around this area in new york in the 80's e.g a beer can on steps and has a projection if text relating to drunk e.g 'squiffy/comotose' as seen in the images below:
Also look at 2 Ronnie's mastermind sketch as a point of reference. And Epson Printer advert that was present in the London underground.
Friday, 12 October 2007
Questions to think about...
What are your recollections of early computers?
What does the HTML code mean to you?
What does the HTML code mean to you?
TUTORIAL 2 .... 11/10/07
Notes:
Set up a discussion through the blog (Information gathering, encouraging people to add their views.) www.yougov.org engages people by offering an incentive in the case of the website mentioned money is accumulated over time by the person filling in political questionnaires/surveys.
How can i attract people to visit my website? <-- create cards place them around town, incentive??
I'm quite interested in the language used to set up the website the HTML code, i plan to e-mail companies that use this language and invite them to blog...Get them to take photo of work environment--> with computer screen?
(UCCA MA in computer game design)
Look at the shifting of technology, codes/smbols/translation necessary in the programming of computers and the internet. Look at history of computers, i was interest in going back and studying the beginnings of this type of technology. Perhaps printing out the HTML code and producing it into a book as one example of an outlet for my work.
Research more into content.
Set up a discussion through the blog (Information gathering, encouraging people to add their views.) www.yougov.org engages people by offering an incentive in the case of the website mentioned money is accumulated over time by the person filling in political questionnaires/surveys.
How can i attract people to visit my website? <-- create cards place them around town, incentive??
I'm quite interested in the language used to set up the website the HTML code, i plan to e-mail companies that use this language and invite them to blog...Get them to take photo of work environment--> with computer screen?
(UCCA MA in computer game design)
Look at the shifting of technology, codes/smbols/translation necessary in the programming of computers and the internet. Look at history of computers, i was interest in going back and studying the beginnings of this type of technology. Perhaps printing out the HTML code and producing it into a book as one example of an outlet for my work.
Research more into content.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Sunday, 7 October 2007
These images were taken with a mobile phone. The mobile phone's camera allows photos to be taken without care of the end product it is about perserving the memory in a compact way. An idea was to incorparate images sent from people's mobiles onto the blog, as each image would be selected by the sender for their own personal reasons, yet the image would mean something else to someone else. I like the effect given by the low resolution.
Friday, 5 October 2007
Project Blog
This project was set up as part of my Year 2 photography project. This site allows contributions in the form of mobile phone images and videos, digital photographs, add anything. Thank you.
Anything added can be done so anonymously.
Anything added can be done so anonymously.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)