Pascoe Macfarlane

This was mine and @sophiehulfillustration‘s response to a brief asking us to visualise some music of our choice. We stumbled across this piece by artist Bruce McLean which was interesting as his work is primarily painting and our initial ideas were focused hugely on his own concepts within his work, such as impermanence. We later changed direction and focussed our ideas on what the music evoked, and there we found this idea of a back and fourth scenario with me and Sophie playing two characters who reflect the high and low pitched voices in the music.

Although I haven't taken it completely literally, I stuck with the image making aspect of it, starting by making some collaged tiles as an alternative, then feeling that it was unsuccessful, I changed to creating something interactive, and made this set of lino stamps from which my intention was to offer this way of visualising recipes, possibly as an alternative to sets of crayons in restaurants as a way of engaging kids with cookery.

Noel Edmunds, get a haircut mate.

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To make these I digitalised my handwriting on Illustrator by tracing the letters, creating slightly softer edges, then transferred the words and arranged them on photoshop, before transferring them onto lino. I aimed to use a more analog process (which would have been much quicker) by using a bigger pen and writing straight onto the lino but it meant my handwriting changed and didn’t look as natural. 

I genuinely felt like a rogue propaganda printer for an activist group.

A clip from me and @huwrobertsillustration2 recording a spoof livestock olympics broadcast which he wrote for project on peoples attitude towards meat consumption. We also recorded another of his stories for another project at another time, where the story was intended to be read like a radio show or audiobook, soft voiced.

Really, I think the process of creating some form of literature came over the aims within the manifesto itself. In the end the links between my project and L’Atelier Populaire became closer, as I decided to linocut my manifesto and make a zine. Slowly but surely my bedroom began to look more like a factory for propaganda as I was making these zines.

I thought that combining these two very different concepts, an art movement, and an almost antiquated love story, could come together quite cleverly and create something satirical too by filming it in the style of a modern day documentary.

Unfortunately I thought I would learn more about cinematography and direction but I still learnt the basics of an entirely new program at the end of this module. This was made using After Effects to showcase what I had learnt, it may not look like much but I utilised almost all the skills I had been taught in session and learned a few myself to get my head round it. I hope to be able to showcase my skills in Premiere when I have completed filming my Text/Context project.