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Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artists, who's work Predicted the Pop art movement. I started looking through Rauschenberg's prints and noticed that most of the ones i was looking at were, Lithographs. I could not remember what they were, and for fear of looking at something that was not a print, i looked it up on the Tate.org. Lithography is a printing process that is based on the fact that grease and water repel one and other. I looked into it and found it very interesting! I wont ramble on about how to do a lithograph but all the information i found was here -  http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/l/lithography  I also found a great youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc The first Print of Rauschenberg that i was really interested in is this: Water Stop- Lithograph -1968 Every time i look at different printmakers work i always find myself surprised and a lot of the time taken back by t...

I wanted to write a post about my reflection homework for photography, simple because i found things along the way while taking photo's and wanted to write down my thoughts/ have a conversation with myself. I find when taking photo with a theme, i over thinking it... and it leads to fear of taking photos, so i just let go. Any reflection i looked at i took a photo of and then could ask questions later, it was a great way of reflecting my day as well. Last year i did a 10 hour exam on the theme of reflections and i got to learn a lot about how reflections work. I wanted this time to think about other things, to take this opportunity to think about line, shape and composition. How strong dose the reflection need to be? Dose everything need to be so obvious ? Can i say what i am trying to say without shouting it? can it be a whisper? Colour. I tend to use black and white it most of my images, truthfully? because i am scared of colour, sounds ridiculous but i d...

The unit overall i found very fun, although i did feel very anxious about my chosen practice - Film. The theme i chose was fear, i felt it would be easier to use this theme because i use this in a lot of my work already. I started with the basic idea of film, moving image, and how it was originally used in film and moved along looking at sound, composition, movement, mood, concept, speed and green screen. I found Composition very close to what i learned in photography, and also about experiment, knowing the rules to break them. i like the way the camera moves around, sometimes with photography i always thought of it as a scene, as in what will they see next? and now with film i can express that. I found that sound is half the battle, it effects the mood and the way you perceive what is going on, it could be a shot of a door but with sinister sound it changes how you view it. It helps you say what you are trying to say. I found it very daunting at first because it is in itself somet...

I decided for my exproring specialist techniques, i would look at using a green screen. I first took a quick video of me in front of a green screen. Just as an experiment. It felt a bit strange filming myself something i am not used to but i can see myself getting used to it and getting more comfortable.  It is difficult to use on the editing software i have at the college, and it looked pretty bad, so i decided if i can't make it look good, make it all bad... I decided for the background at this point it wasn't very important because it was just an experiment and thought it would be funny to use one from venice... The options on Imove ( the old version ) are a bit limited. but i found out you can play around a bit with it, cropping, softness, colour, effect, sound. I decided to add some sound to it ( something a bit silly to match the silliness of it all ) and this is what the end result is:

I wanted to create a blog post with some the photography i did for this unit so far that is not in my sketch book.

I wanted to continue my unit by looking at some more artists that use film, i wanted to make a list and comment on some works that i enjoyed/ connected with from a CD of experimental film. rainer gamsjaeger - state of flux ( http://rainergamsjaeger.com/ ) I really liked the videoseries "state of flux". This video, to me, is about the crazy nature of water, the water is flowing but changing and in a water system making it appear abstracted and almost alien. When i first saw this video i thought of wool in a rotating machine, it did not seem like water to me. I did not think it was a machine i thought it was edited! I get a huge sense of power from this but i also find it very relaxing and beautiful. So simple but complex. Juste le temps - R obert Cahen ( http://robertcahen.com/) This short film i think tells the story of two people who are about to cross paths, i like the jump between landscape and interior and between being asleep and being awake.....

I wanted to take some time to look at sound ... Unlike my film I made before I should pay as much attention to sound as i do to the images... Why should I use sound? a silly question probably but sound never even crossed my mind when I decided to look into film. Sound and film go hand in hand I know I can use sound to help show where and when the film is set, draw attention to  things in the film, create an atmosphere or set a mood, depict a character, warn that something is about to happen... I found these tips online :  ( http://learnaboutfilm.com/making-a-film/film-sound-basics/ ) If you can’t record good live sound, fake the sound.  It’s better to put your soundtrack together on the computer when you edit rather than have bad sound. Use a separate microphone.  You could use a directional microphone or a tieclip (‘lavalier’) microphone. Or you could use a separate audio recorder and sync the sound up afterwards. If you have to use an in-camera or ...