Decaying flower
Created with Stop Motion Studio, I began taking pictures of my flower once every two days, showing the effect of the flowers slowly dying. For the experiment I had taken the picture for three weeks to show the development of decay
Eadweard Muybridge.
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in photography and motion during the late 1800’s.
Eadweard created the zoopraxiscope a process of projecting animated versions of his photographs as short moving sequences which creates a cinematic theater that developed history of cinema.
looking at the photography of Eadweard Muybridge you can see the evolution of the camera and how far it has come. in 1950’s Muybridge pushed the creation of the camera presenting films. static imagery in movement, of animals and humans.
Looking at the movement of his work it reminds me of Duane Michals due to the black and white antique imagery, the way the photographs are placed to indicate the understanding of how they move due to the structure of the object, animal or person.
this one is rather interesting to me as i like the change of the person. As shes a bigger shape than the other people he worked with i can imagine the movement of the body, how she would walk and the way her body moves.
Bruce Nauman
Born 1940’s Bruce Nauman is an American artist who’s practice broadens in photography, sculpture, neon and video making.
As Bruce works in 3D form as well as video you can see the change of style depending on what media he uses. Although his style may change he always articulates meaningful pieces of work.
Looking at his neon pieces i love how he uses erotic poses, sexual body parts and aggressive stances to construct the audience, making them wonder why he did it, the purpose of the work.
from the exhibition sex, death by murder and suicide in 1985 Bruce created this neon light of static imagery. As the images seen is rather inappropriate i like how he interpreter’s movement into the neon lights to create more of an effective image. This involves animation just like Duane Michals work, as Duane uses darker shades such as grays, black and white, Bruce uses colour on a black background to make the piece stand out, more of an eye catching, vivid imagery.
This video of his exhibition gives you an incite of the images in movement. Watching this video made me think of why he made this exhibition and what inspired him. Using colours such as red, green blues and pink gave me the impression it represents the emotion of the work. As colours can interpret emotion they fit well with the exhibition “sex, death by murder and suicide”.
One piece that intrigued me by Bruce is the “words don’t come easily” looking at this piece it put his work into perspective, real events, emotions and situations of life, in a negative and positive way.
Duane Michals
born in 1930’s American photographer Duane Michals creates narratives within a series, blending image with text in a format similar to cinematic sequences. Duane uses photographs to explain his self experiences, catches the moment in a photo to remember the experience in personal depth. His first solo exhibition was held at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 1970.
i love how Duane uses photography to explain a situation. Looking at The Fallen Angel made it 1968 is really emotionally effective, clearly seeing the story illustrated makes the audience think in depth about the story behind the photos. The use of dark colours intrigues the viewer to look deeper into detail at the surrealistic photos.
I believe this is influenced by stop motion by the static imagery, showing sections of still movement articulates how the images would fix together to create a stop motion. To explain further i made a stop motion of these images, illustrating the movement if it was a static movement. Doing this short video shows how the images click together illustrating what Duane means when he says “catches the moment in a photo to remember.
Looking at Duane’s work i realized he works in a similar style to Eadweard Muybridge, in the way of tonal colour, photography in black and white and also how he uses the process of static imagery to create the effect of movement.
Compare
looking into animation i researched two different companies that use animation as advertising.
the first company animation i researched was Honda “Paper”, viewing this video i automatically seen the different in what type of stop motion it is and the process used to create the static imagery.
in this video i love how Honda shown the hands in the imagery to show how the process was done, by taking a picture every second over movement, keeping the hands in the image made the shop clip more effective.
As they kept the hand movement in the video, proceeded the creators to add sound effect this built up an atmosphere of the movement of the paper and the transport.
the second company i researched was John Lewis, the Christmas advert “bare and the hare” watching the process of the video i could identify the difference between Honda. this video contains more editing skills compared to the Honda, as the they both use a lot of preparation this John Lewis advert contains practical skills in making props to use in the video, this has more of a 3D view compared to the Honda as it is 2D based with a lot of detailed drawing. even though John Lewis contains drawing you can see the differences in both work.
Listening to the soundtrack of the video it creates emotion to the whole story as the song the chose relates in a sweet way as it is emotional such as the video it’s self.
Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor, English filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. Sam’s work caught my eye when i saw the stop motion animation of the dead hare called ‘Little Death’. this video is really interesting to watch as she takes daily photos of the decaying hare, showing the change of decay throughout the film.
The making of this animation Sam explains the process of the still life and the decaying. She explains how the hare is a symbol of life and virility.
“The deathly heavy scenario came to life again, and then it evolved into a sort of slasher horror film version of Still Life. A Little Death was more violent. Still Life conveyed a grace in the decay but with A Little Death it was not only violent, but shockingly violent. The feeling of the transformation of life into death repeating itself over and over is so frightful.”
Unit 7 evaluation
For unit 7 I had to understand stop motion animation. To do this I began researching the processes for stop motion, looking up different ways stop motion is produced.
Looking up stop motion was rather interesting as I found a variety of videos that use this technique and artist, For example Honda paper animation, this was used to advertise the company in an intriguing way, catching the audience’s attention.
Researching Tim Burton as he is well known for his family cartoon stop motion movies. researching Honda and Tim burton made me think of how the artist reached out to the audience in an emotional way, due to this I interpreted this in to my work, for example my life after death animation of the flower and fairy, this had a meaningful personal message behind the video, which is the equivalent to the Honda and Tim burton films. I think my stop motion ‘Life after death’ was well produced for my second example. I believe it took time as I had to draw the flower and fairy for every movement, if I worked faster I believe my stop motion would of been longer and had more of a story line to it. This idea came to me when I brain stormed the word ‘Spring’.
My first animation I did was with a fine line pain drawing another flower, I was happy with the outcome of the technique. Using the app stop motion studio was easier than expected but I believe my animation would have been better if my camera was stable in one place so my small movie didn’t shatter from the camera movement.
One other stop motion I did of a growing flower I found difficult as a drew the flower in sections in my sketch book. I struggled taking pictures I kept capturing parts of different sections of the stop motion. I would of done this better by measuring the paper accurately so I didn’t capture anything other than the main image.
as I didn’t keep up with the work set for the Unit 7 I did not end up doing the photo graph and observational drawing task. for this I had to take a picture of a flower or fruit every day for 3 weeks as well as drawing to illustrate the difference from the dying/ decaying fruit or flower. to finish the unit I will start the process of this technique for the full unit to be completed.
Over all evaluation
I could of read the brief more often to help me understand the project more but did not. This needs to become more of a habit to help understand the project and have a stronger outcome.
in this project i understood what i needed to do alot clearer than the last project as i paid more attention to my work and the task set. I also believe i could of done better by time keeping and doing the task step by step, being more organised. I think when it came to producing a final outcome i set myself enough time to develop ideas and create my final piece but not enough time to do the small task that help me get to the outcome.
I did not understand the Pass,Merit, distinction to the full extent as i didn’t fully identify the brief by looking back to see what was needed.
For primary research i developed my ideas and started to create sample pieces. Also i went to museums, stepped out of my comfort zone to try different techniques. I know i could of done more primary research such as looking in different museums and galleys, researching different objects relevant to my source.
I looked at secondary research such as videos of animation, different artist to get inspiration ect. I feel like i could of done better. But with the research i collected by artist such as Hepworth, Moore helped me design my final outcome by also looking back at the observational drawings in the museum. i tuck photos, searched the web, ask for peoples opinions and views.
I did not read the brief to check my progression. i did notice my progression by updating my blog, creating development and expanding my ideas. As i didn’t read through the brief thoroughly my work isn’t organised in the right units. For each units i knew the criteria but as my lacked time the outcome wasn’t strong enough to proceed.
throughout the project i planned what i wanted to do for my development and research by doing a next step list so i knew what was needed to do. I did primary and secondary research to expand my ideas and techniques, including artist design work. I did meaning annotation for example unit 7 animation ‘life and death’ i experimented with processes and media such as photo-grams, 3D problem solving and wire work. Doing this i created my final outcome using plaster inspired by my observational drawings, Hepworth and Moore research.
I asked for criticism off tutors and other tutors along with help, i could of done better by helping myself by putting more motive into my work. I listened to feedback from tutors and students, i feel the tutor feedback helped a lot more than the students as they understood what i was doing and hat was needed instead of just giving me a basic opinion.
I reviewed and refined my ideas to get my final outcome, doing this i got the best final outcome from the project by manipulating and changing my work.
i understand how to improve my grade by checking through thoroughly to keep the consistency. I annotated my work throughout each section to explain hat is it i have done.
I’m happy with my outcome, it holds great detail in what i was trying to evaluate and develop. But if i had the chance to improve my outcome i would do more plaster work pieces and experiment in the size.
When developing my outcome i looked back on the materials and techniques i used in a task that was set to carry through to my final project.
My lacked time organizing skills, not on my final outcome but for research and development. I believe this is due to my work load, i didn’t do enough at the right time so i needed to catch up.
I understood some processes carried out during the brief but as my time scale was to late i missed parts of the work i should of done. Due to this i recognized success an failures of the project so i’m able to identify what i need to do to achieve next time. Throughout my annotating i tried to use vocational language to explain my development and processes. This brief helped me make conclusions that i will carry through to the next brief such as time scale, development research.
For my presentation i made presentation boards to show my journey of development in a clear form and understanding. unfortunately i did not hand my work in on time due to the time scale and work load. Now i did this i have a clear understanding of time scale and work load to get the grade i ant to work towards. to do this i will look at the brief more often to understand what is needed so i leave nothing out.
Euan Uglow
British painter Euan Uglow, well known for his still life paintings such as one of his master pieces “nude” created in 1962. this beautiful piece shows the delicacy of a woman, she shows the fragile tonal colours contrastin with the shade how the woman is formed on the page. Uglow created beautiful yet simple line technique. Looking at his work he expands in all elements of techniques which creat stronger pieces of work. such as composition of visual elements and structure. The colour i his work is produced in a calm manner as well as it being bland and horizontal.
Uglow was very found of his oil paints as they created unique texture you can identify visually and through texture.
he created a peaceful atmosphere by using certain colours in his work.
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