Chance or Fate

Book Project - The Final Product

Here are a few spreads from my final portfolio book for Year 1 Graphics

Initial Book Spreads

spread 4-6
spread 10-14
spread 24
spread 30
14 pages

Project 25 - Type Battle - stage 1

3 pages from the type battle project - stage 1
Photocopies hand cut and stuck on cartridge paper.

build the robots

Guthman musical instrument competition

The guys over at Guthman held a competition for new and inventive instruments today.
I wonder if our project has anything to do with this annual competition

edit---
the winner is

Quote by Ira Glass

Project 23 - Final piece

Project 23 - Test shots

(uploading at time of post, video may not show)

test shots with canon 550d + magic lantern
lenses: 50mm f1.8 (the plastic fantastic), 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM
PremierPro CS5.5 and AfterEffects CS5.5

Test shot list:
Tripod as crane shot
Tripod as sweep shot (very shaky)
On shoulder pan left (needs work)
On shoulder pan right
Digital lens flare coming into shot
Digital lens flare moving through frame
In camera lens flare combined with Digital flare + more complex move
Tripod as crane - lean in + digital flare
+Basic colour grading on all shots (small variations between shots)

Script outline:

8 year old girl sits at a table colouring. She sits back in the chair, looks straight at camera and says “I can be whatever I want to be... but what do I want to be?”. She leans back in and continues to colour in.

ALT – “When I grow up, I want to be famous! I'm gunna be a famous singer on xfactor. Just you wait and see”

12 year old girl sat watching kids TV alone. She turns to the camera “I could be famous one day. I could be on TV or in Films or anything. Just look at all the pretty girls, [points at TV] I could be one of those one day.” She turns back to the TV and changes channel. “I wont be though now will I... I'm not pretty enough” [crosses arms and brings up legs]

ALT – “these girls have no talent. I can sing (dance/act) better than them[!] they're only on here because they're skinny and cute...”

16 year old girl reading a magazine (ok, hello or similar). “I want all these clothes! not that I could ever afford half of them... [page turn] I like these shorts, they'd make my legs look so long. They're a bit short though, got to be careful in these” [gives a glance and a grin at the camera]

ALT – “ugly, ugly, gross, nasty, ooh thats nice, nope, ugh.... oh whats the point, I'll never fit into any of these clothes anyway” – notable irony in that

18-20 year old woman walks in to a house looking a bit of a state. Stumbles to her bedroom and falls onto her bed. Still for a moment. Slurs, “what a good night. Got LOTS of attention if you know what I mean.” she rolls over and reaches for a glass that isn't there. “A few went too far but I sorted them out”

ALT – “I'm sick of guys staring at me like I'm a piece of meat. I just want a good night out but all I get is creepy guys groping me while I dance...”

25 year old woman sat watching TV on a sofa. “I'm sick and tired of seeing all these girls wasting their life on all these futile endeavours. Trying to get guys in these awful ways in these horrible places. I just don't understand how it got this way. How did it get this bad? What happened to everybody?”

ALT – “why do these girls think it's ok to be like this? When did it all go so wrong? Can't they understand that it doesn't have to be like this?”

Project 23 - Blazing biographies

Jenny Saville

A british painter from Cambridge.
she studied in glasgow with her final show in london which she couldn't get to. Despite this, she sold all her work at the show.

Saatchi bought several of her painting on her leaving university and set her a challenge to fill his gallery with her work in 2 years.

She went to new york for 6 month where she looked in on many plastic surgeries and liposuctions. this is where she learned about the human body and peoples attitudes to their own.

Her more recent work explores gender roles and trans-genders with her trademark monolith sized paintings and freeform paint heavy strokes.

She is a very private person with no intent of marriage or children (despite being in a long term relationship with fellow artist Paul McPhail)

"The tyranny of thinness" - Dawn French

A few ideas
Interviews with women; Why might you get cosmetic surgery? What would you have changed, why? What are your opinions of cosmetic surgery

Interviews with post surgery women: What did you have done? Why did you have it? Are you happy with the results? Would you get any more done? What would you say to anyone thinking about getting cosmetic surgery?

Create an interactive publication (or ePub) about plastic surgery and what it really involves.

Explore how the media portrays the female image. Is it accurate? What's been changed? Does it even affect how people think about themselves? Do people compare themselves to altered images?
Is it any different for the male form? What is changed with images of men? Are men affected as much? – use a combination of photography, drawing and video in an ePub.

Marshall McLuhan - quotes

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us

The medium is the message

Art is anything you can get away with

Holiday Havoc

Do something you've never done before.

I have never been on a film set / crew. Dan invited me to be part of the film crew for one of his projects. My job was to record the camera settings and operate the clapper board. It was a very informing day as I didn't realise quite how much work goes into filming things properly.

Gaby was also on set as a photographer and a runner. I lent her my camera for the day and she returned with lots of loverly shots. Here are just a few of them.

Project 20 and 22 - too sweet and I'm game

Digital versions
I remade the too sweet drawing as a vector illustration.
My board game is based off of monopoly but typefaces as game spaces. drawn from scratch in Illustrator.

Project 22 - Too sweet

Design a new sweet or chocolate and it's packaging
Peanut butter and jam flavour boiled sweets (like rhubarb and custards)

Project 19 - Goal Scorer

Project 17 - joke shop

Animation project
"rub a dub dub, three men in a pub. 10 pints of larger and on to a club"

Project 16 - Haymakers

Haymakers Project: get up at 3:45am on 3 consecutive days and make art.

Day 1


Day 2


Day 3

Gig filming

I filmed a 'Absent me' and 'the new root' gig on friday night.
Roaming cam is so much fun, quite dangerous though ... lovely shots but being tethered almost got me killed! need to figure out a way of getting live footage on screens without 2 clumsy cables

I'll try and get one of the edited tracks up here when they finnish it.

Project 14 - Konigsberg's Oeuvre - Midnight In London

we watched woody Allan's (AKA Allan Konigsberg) new film Midnight In Paris and had 2:30 hours to make and edit a 1 minute version of the film.
this is my groups result:

I was camera man and editor

Project 13 - farm to market