In situ

These mockups show the animations presented on screens within the window of the space and surrounded by vinyl graphics. I would like to present my print work on acetate or perspex and hanged in a grid around the screens. I think this would play on the light from the window and the different colours coming through from the window graphics. This could also be lit up from below at night. I would also like to create an ad campaign which could be printed as newspaper or magazine ads and branded TV idents which would be displayed in a low glass case in front of this work.

Animation screengrabs

My FMP has changed significantly since I first pitched my idea. I would like to retitle it TURN A BLIND EYE and it will now predominantly look at aspects of today’s society and current news and their effect on the everyday person. The focus will be on world leaders and politicians who have a position of power and the work will hint at the flaws and abuses these powerful people can get away with, and how their decisions impact on the masses. Using black and white collage imagery juxtaposed with acid colour layers I hope to create visually stimulating and aesthetically pleasing work which on second glance reveals a darker message. It will be a mix of moving image work and then accented images from the animation presented as print work. The commercial aim of the work would be a TV/print ad campaign for a current affairs documentary series and so I would also like to present a series of idents and print ads to show the work in a real life situation.

 

 

The series of short animations would be accompanied by audio taken straight from news reports and interlaced with typography using key words which I have pulled out of the reports or which I feel represents a feeling from hearing or watching the news. The bomb shapes are made up from collages of vintage rose photography in order to add the feel of “beautiful versus deadly.”

FMP presentation

I would like to present my print work as small pieces rather than large format and in some sort of grid formation. Perhaps printed on acetate/perspex and lit from the back. 

FMP presentation

I have seriously started looking at how I am going to present my work at the show. 

This presentation of the Grace Jones promo by why not associates on a grid of small screens is beautiful and i think my moving image work would work well in this layout. I don't think the circuit board and raw feel suits my work or objectives. But i think the small screens could accentuate the animation and the contrast between the different elements playing on each one. 

I also like the idea of having a screen behind a laser cut screen which would allow the viewer to look at the animation but incorporate an extra level of shape, pattern through which they would see the moving image. I like these lantern sculptures by Mikyoung Kim Design. The laser cut stainless steel resembles a barcode and i love how the different colours shine through. 

Gallery visits

Today I went to Ikon to see Robert Orchardson's Endless Facade. I loved the shapes within Orchardson's sculptural pieces and the light and shade around the sculptures which changed as you walked around the pieces. I like the repeating quality of the shapes and the geometric patterns they create. I found this inspirational as i have been using geometric shapes within my work so far.

Then at BMAG I particularly liked this painting by Henri Fantin-Latour. I love the hues in this painting which are bright yet sad and almost funereal. The detail on the petals is amazing. I recognised this as the same artist which Peter Saville featured/reproduced on the cover for Power, Corruption and Lies. Saville used the classical and romantic painting and contrasted it with his modular, colourful coding.

I love the colours in this stained glass window by Henry Payne. I would like to use acetate to print some of my work and get these vivid and luscious tones. 

I was intrigued by these pencil drawings by Kenneth Martin which represent kinetic structures and investigate movement. A simple square has been transformed into a number of different permutations. 

Juxtaposing

Flower bomb

Horrible v Beautiful

I have started work on some beautiful imagery to juxtapose the more sinister animations. I have made some collage from old books using pieces of photographed roses which have a great vivid colour/tone quality and then placed them within even more abstract shapes which resemble bombs or explosions. These shapes still fit with the geometric shapes contained within my other animations so i think these will compliment them and add extra colour to the work. Next i need to work at animating these and combining them with my other animations.

More animation

More animation

Some more short animations and a crude test of how i would finally like it to look in a grid, the short pieces playing side by side.