Media Pathway

For the media pathway we went into the TV studio with Jamie. We were told that we had to make a collaborative, confessional video in response to a artist named Gillian Wearing who produced ‘confess all on video’. She posted this ad… ‘confess all on video. Don’t worry you’ll be in disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian.’In the times magazine back in 1994. She was unaware of the response she would receive, but it turned out well.

Jamie wanted us to have a basic understanding of the media pathway without us having to sit there for the session taking notes and just looking at equipment. So, we had a quick look around the facility and was shown the sound room and controls. We had a talk about The potential of the space we had to work with, how the black back drop made it look like we where in infinite space and transformed the area from looking like a warehouse to creating meaning. Lighting is a very important feature in media, as where the light is placed can create moods and emotions. We disgused the history of the painter named Caravaggio, who uses the idea of chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) who brought this idea into his pieces.

We took a 15 minute break to think of our confession and then returned ready to shoot. Each time someone confessed we needed a director, camera man and juxtaposing hand to cover the presenters face as a disguise, the juxtaposition would be that the hand looked/said a different message than the person behind it. The director was the boss and had the authority of when the filming would begin. The sequence went like this… Director: ‘quiet on set please’ (to which everyone would be silent) ‘everybody ready?’ (Everyone should reply yes or state that they aren’t) ‘roll tape’ Camera man: ‘tape rolling’ Director: ‘5,4,3,2,1 que presenter…’ (Small pause) then the presenter would confess!

The film was a success, however some shots worked better than other and same with the juxtaposing hand effect. Here is the FAD 16 confession film… 

3D pathway

Today we began the roundabout sessions. We have been given 3 weeks to try 6 different pathways in art and design too get a feeling for all aspects of the course. My first session was with Kim in the 3D pathway. The project was to create our own interpretation of a wire drawing by reproducing a primary source. The outcome could be a 2D piece, relief panel or a 3D sculpture. My primary source was a photograph of the mosaic ceiling at the Park Guell in Barcelona.

Photograph shown below.

I visited the park over the summer and was amazed by the unique qualities of Antoni Guadi’s architecture. This was my inspiration for my sculpture as I felt it would look ornamental and organic just like his creations are. I was drawn too use free flowing geometric shapes as this would keep it free from rigidity and have a liberty about it.  Too begin, the group had a briefing on how to use the spot welder so that we knew the hazards and safety precautions. Then I had my photograph printed out at a larger scale so that I could draw more detailed shapes from it too start moulding the wire. The wire was easily manipulated into the shapes desired.

As I began to piece my wire structure together, it acquired a gentle curve which I thought gave it some fluidity. Given the time limit we had to complete our pieces (9:30am-12:00pm), I wanted to keep things small. Within the session I completed the wire frame, however I felt that it looked bare, cold and wasn’t very aesthetically pleasing. I wanted to incorporate some form of textiles into my structure to give it some vibrancy as well as soften the strong metal form.

 

I decided on using yarn due to its delicate qualities. I used colours that I extracted from the mosaic ceiling because they are rich and would bring the piece to life a little more. As I started to weave the yarn through the wire, I noticed that it was creating more geometric shapes. This wasn’t planned but I was really pleased with the outcome. When I looked at my piece, the different coloured yarns all interweaving with each other reminded me of the roads/routes on a map. This has given me inspiration to begin further research for this as well as look into artists/designers whom work with wire structures and textile materials.

 

These are photographs of the finished sculpture. I used invisible wire too hang the piece up and small lights to create the shadow effect. I feel that I should have used one more vibrant colour to create a balance as the grey, pink and white take a back seat. Looking back at the Park Güell photo I could of incorporated a yellow or rusty red too equal out the blue.