Specialising in Mixed Media - Week Two

Second week is when I began going out and recording everyday noises such as: busking, stores, cafes etc. I then started asking friends and families where they thought I was when recording these sounds. The responses were amazing. this instantly made sense on how you need music and dance together to show something because without one of them, the concept instantly changes.

I then developed this more and started watching the show The Voice. The programme is about members of the public singing for judges while the judges cannot see them. So, I set myself to be in the judge’s shoes and draw what I thought the person looks like before I saw them. Some outcomes were not as expected.

I did this experiment to show that you need music in dance to complement each other. one with out the together simply does not link or fit well.

On this sample, I looked at a music box with a tiny little ballerina inside. From this, I developed it further by recording just the sound in one. And another clip recording the ballerina dancing without the music. To conclude the sample, I included both of these media; how you usually see it. I asked friends and family what they thought of the recording just with the music, they allegedly thought I was recording something from a scary movie. When I showed them the video with the ballerina dancing without music, they thought it was a bit strange; I toy spinning on the spot. 

At the beginning of this rotation, I targeted myself to plan out day to day work and at what time and for how long I will be working on the project. So, during the first week I called into schools and college arranging when I could come in and take pictures of dance.

The Oldham Academy North

In Mixed Media I found that peer reviews are really helpful. When I was presenting my work, I suggested that I could possibly look at animation because movement is really difficult to capture and to draw. This idea was developed by looking at choreographed dance moves on YouTube. The different dance moves to create a dance was shown there so I immediately thought of animation. So this is how I reflected on my idea.

After a CP lecture, John who was in charge of the resource centre came in to do a talk about slides. This was instantly another sample that I could look at. So I arranged a time to go in and pick some slides out. There were less than few slides available on dance as it was something that would have been difficult to capture in an image.

After further research I found that what my intention was to work on was called Zoetrope.

Friday Drawing Day:

Drawing day was unusual as we were told to bring in Kinder Eggs. After explaining what we were set to do it all made sense. So this is what I did from the toys inside and tried relating it to my project.

Both of my toys were the same so I was stuck. I started playing around with the butterfly wings and created multiple wings from paper and began stacking them on top of each other to create this structure. i found this really interesting and I feel as though this could be developed  using my primary images.

                  

After my tutors review on my work so far, she suggested Eadweard Muybridge who is an animation artist. After research, this artists work is very simplistic which is something that I would definitely want to carry on further.

At this point in time, I am thinking about animation