Ruby Hintons pro practice

From a uni workshop we dis with George sanders Jackson, a bristol based animator. We were given a task to bring in an object of value to ourselves and create a narrative with it. I decided on bringing in my bracelet my boyfriend gave to me at boomtown festival in 2013. Using details from the bracelet, I zoomed in and created the night sky over the festival fields. I really enjoyed his workshop as I used to use charcoal quite a lot, and it helped me think more about narratives and a new perspective.

Prepping our haggis and other Scottish delights ready for the exhibition. Although it's the end of the deadline I will still blog about our collective and other exhibitions we will put on x

Our almost finished version of the poster for the exhibition, Sam and beth were the main designers, using a picture I took on the ale while we filmed the shadow play, we also used the type face I have used through out the videos I made for us, "Andes regular" on da font.com.

These are the posters for "burns night" performance made by Sam, she's work really hard on making the posters and bottles. Unfortunately we all made a group decision, the images on the pictures were too poor quality to use, so instead we all helped make a new one ready for the exhibition.

As well as finishing the exhibition space, I also finished and published the shadow collective website: Theshadowcollective.weebly.com I made sure my group new all the decisions I made for the layout of the pages, Emma, Beth and Sam were all happy with the outcome and so am I. I think making a website just makes it all look more professional as a collective and also helps tie everything together. I've added drop menus that can direct the viewer to our individual blogs and twitters, a home page and a page for the shadow play itself. Our group email is very obvious in our contact menu and we also have a message box people can write in on the same page. I'm very proud of this website!

£3 - mdc board for laser cutting

I did some research to help us plan for how much we should charge for the events and the average came in at £8 for the childrens showing and £15 for the adults showing as the food & beverage is included.

Exhibition space is now complete and ready for tomorrow! Even when it came to putting up our installation we still worked as a team, we all made sure we shared our thoughts on where this went, the layout at the end of it was the best outcome for sure. Below the monitor that plays out films displays our puppets made of mdf, because they are arm height, it's a signifier that you can pick them up and try them out. Our lighting behind out box works really well with the rest of the space and the curtain really helps take away lighting from the window. All in all its been a good few days!

Still working on our website, only 2 days to go until our exhibition t f block in use bower Ashton. I just need to wait to publish it until tomorrow, I will then have the film ready to put on the website too!

a sound scape that I made at the very start of the project. I was obsessing over the phrase “dreich” a scottish words for glum weather. its funny that we based our project on a scottish poem (Tam O’shanter By Rubert Burns) just after i had created this, i fell like this helped me alot in editing and getting back into making music and sound.

Strengths: I believe my strengths are in problem solving, communication, oragisation, traditional print, filming and editing. To me, editing a film or video is therapeutic and so satisfying to do, when timing is done write, or when you find the perfect song to edit to, it all makes it worth it.

working has a team has definately made this experience easier, we’ve all worked to our strengths as well as helping eachother with our weaknesses. what i’ve learnt most about doing a group project is that communication is key, you need to always make sure youre telling everyone what you are doing and why you are doing it.  

Almost finished with video editing for film and making of the shadow collective promo. I'm also putting touches onto our website that also links into our individual blogs and twitters!!!

First day of setting up the exhibition! we finally decided where everything is laid out, we're now just installing the frame for the curtain, putting up the monitor to show the film and more!