#group tutorial

Jim Kemmy Remembered / Exhibition

Friday/11/Nov

Today we went to the City Gallery by People’s Park.

We were given freedom to enjoy the gallery and a task to pay attention to the lighting in the gallery space and how the exhibition has been displayed. Our tutors encouraged us to make sketches and take pictures of anything that we found interesting.

On the main floor they had the exhibition Jim Kemmy Remembered. There, I was the most fascinated by the landscape paintings.

Edward McGuire, Powescourt Waterfall

Why I found these so interesting was because these big landscapes had their little people in them and they’re fun to look at. I really enjoyed these small details.

Robert Carver, Landscape (1754)

I also really enjoyed the cast bronze sculpture ‘Finnbheal’ by Oliver Sheppard so I tried to capture it in my sketch.

In this gallery room the paintings were arranged in clear themes.

I noticed the back exit was framed by portrait.

One wall was dedicated to paintings depicting the culture around the docks of Limerick, starting the wall with a painting of ‘Arthur’s Quay’ by Charles Mills.

Painter not known, Old Thomond Bridge

‘Powescourt Waterfall’ and ‘Waves and Rocks, Bundoran’ were arranged on the same wall, both being capturing the movement of water.

Another wall was dedicated to religious pieces.

Today we had group feedbacks on our initial thumbnail ideas after explaining them to the group and

 Jack said- he liked the third idea with the screaming head- which would be a really good sound effect/ sound board for me to have fun and build up so I defiantly plan on adding that into mine. He also said it has the potential for more with the ball at the start bouncing around and then going into the head animation which I thought was a great point and I could go over the time limit and do the ball bouncing and transforming then speeding up and then the ball disappear then reappear as head.

Alexandra said she likes the freedom that the third idea potentially gives me which is a great point as that also goes hand in hand with experimentation as you really need freedom to be able to do it. The more I thought about all the feedback I got the more I wanted to do the third idea.

22nd of September 2017

Second Formative Assessment / group tutorial notes

‘ORT’, Moseley / Balsall Heath (potential locations for collaboration with Sarah).

Social clubs / working men’s clubs.

Bournville Social Club?

Group tutorial notes

Discussed more in-depth the potential collaborative work with Sarah: has now developed from a live performance to a filmed performance / short film. Video work, no sound?

Consider soundtrack, dialogue and possibly “foley”.

Potential areas to film:

Lens based media suite

Various locations around Birmingham (China Town etc.)

Build a set within the studio?

Book photography suite to test out ideas? Discuss with Sarah.

“An exploration of sensuality”, encompassing themes of eroticism, kitsch, tactile and visceral elements.

Fuji Velvia

Gregory Grewdson

James Richards

Group tutorial notes

SOI deadline: 24th February

Marvin Gaye Chetwind

Dance Exchange

Michael Clark

‘Blood and Roses’ video performance?

In our group tutorial we were advised that instead of colouring sheets we should work on making the display interactive. Therefore we refocused our ideas to creating a display that the audience could participate in. We ideally wanted to create a chest of draws with different archaeological objects or finds in each draw. However, we soon realized that this would be hard to accomplish in a week which was the time given to create our prototype. Therefore we downsized our idea to one that was more achievable which was to create a tub full of soil with objects we had created buried underneath for the audience to uncover. 

This morning we had a group tutorial with Timm to discuss our designs. Overall Timm was very happy with the work as no other group had any work to show. While speaking to him we adjusted some photographs to line up more and add certain little elements to link the pages together even more.