Last week Term 1

The last week started out pretty hectic, trying to finish off our assignments.
Monday consisted of printing the last of the Hockneys. We then made frames to stretch our maps assignments onto, this meant getting hands on in the woodwork room. After this we did final touch ups on the assignment and started printing them. At the same time we were all adding the finishing touches to our Fire proposals which had to be sent off by 2pm that day. I managed to finish and send my proposal off with about 15 minutes to spare.

On Tuesday night those selected to take part in the winter arts projection program went along to a meeting with Jenny and Ian De Gruchy. The few of us that went got a lot out of the night. Ian, has been kind enough to give his time every year to this project. He showed us a range of his own projection works from around Australia and the World, then gave us an idea of what sorts of works we need to produce. we were all given a CD with a template of the building to work off. Later i discovered that i was given a blank CD, but luckily Lauren will be able to give me the files on Thursday. Overall though it was a great night.

Thursday mornings class we got given our feedback from Jenny on our fire proposals. My feedback seemed pretty good, a few things i am changing but mostly she seemed to like my idea and thinks it would work well as an installation as well as the stand alone video at Federation Square and in Dandenong. /New, re-sized pieces of wood for frames for the maps assignment were given out, not mine though so David printed my image again on Friday at Dandy.
The rest of the day we finished off our after effects videos, and rendered them out. mine was quite simple with hearts beating and moving around to the music. I'm still finding After Effects a little confusing, but I've never used any kind of video software before.

On Friday we worked on  a project we were given by Simon about emotions the previous week. My idea is based around togetherness. My design is of two trees growing next to each other who have grown together, their branches entwining. I'm nearly finished, just gonna add more branches, and change the colours of the trees. Then i think i might try a different concept that might be quick to have a go at.

After all that we have a bunch of things to work on throughout the holidays, including a video essay with a theme of our choice. should be interesting.

Maps Assignment

For the first few weeks we had to do the maps assignment i pretty much clueless of what we were meant to do for it. After a while and many more explanations i started to come up with some ideas, but none i really liked or could get to work. Then i just started putting layers together starting with an old map. My idea then turned towards faces, which then lead to my grandpa, the photos are of him, and there is also a daffodil and cancer ribbon in it. as he died of cancer a few years ago. As interpretation by others goes, i don't mind if they don't fully understand it, yet they may be able to connect in someway, others wont but they will still get something out of the image.
This is my finished product :)

"Pa"