video installation pre production

Equipment list

- A solo light/, which can be moved around.

- Gel light sheets/, which can be put onto the light creating different colours.

- Access to the TV studio to shoot, where it is dark and the light is more effective.

- One cannon HD DSLR to shoot by feature with.

- Charger for the cannon batteries.

- SD cards for the Cannon camera.

- Final cut pro to edit footage on.

video installation pre production

video instalation

Video Instalation Gell lights

  

Three visual Artists

Three different artists

Sam Taylor wood

Samantha Taylor Wood born 4^th march 1957 and born in England is known for being a very successful filmmaker, visual artist and photographer. Her first attempt was a major flop called the nowhere boy, which was a film based on the background and childhood of each member of the famous world known band the Beatles. But she became successful through her visual art the two standout pieces are the rotting fruit and the rotting rabbit corpse. These pieces of art both display the decay of a rabbits deceased body and also the decay of fruit which has been left for months to rot, this art is in video form and very interesting and disturbing. The fruit art is called a still life and the decaying rabbit is call a small death. i believe by using an actual rabbits corpse could be seen as controversial because animal rights campaigners could find this cruel and very inappropriate using a previously living body for art.

Bill viola

Bill Viola was born January 5^th 1981 and is a contemporary video artist, and his art focuses on fundamental human experiences such as birth and death. Bill violas art mainly consists of water featured pieces, e.g. one of his work of arts is of a man being pulled out of a well which is full of water, he is pale and looks almost dead and he has no movement in this lifeless body, This piece of art was inspired by a picture of Jesus Christ but he says that his piece of art has nothing to do with religion. So bill violas art is a very specific and different type of video instillation because almost every single piece of art consists of water which relates to a child memory and experience which encouraged him to involve water in his work so often. The image of using a picture which is so similar to jesus christ is very controversial because people are religious predominately christian could see this as a direct insult and this could cause an uproar agains bill viola and his works of art.

Mathew Barney

Matthew Barney was born march 25th 1996 he is an American artist who’s work involves being sculpture, photographer, an artist and a film maker. He shot to fame when he created a feature called the Cremaster cycle in the years 1994 – 2004 this was a series of five feature films described by many as the most impressive pieces of art ever made. This pieces of art mainly explore the cycle of creation and this consisted of sculptures, drawings and photographs which all came into visual effect very successfully. Matthew Barney art is very sensual and sexual this could be seen as controversial if a child or young adult saw this they could be influenced of effected by it as a result making allot of parents and guardians angry.

buildings and flats evaluation

Pictures of flats and estates evaluation

INTRODUCTION

I found this task difficult to complete due the fact that I had to find my own personal time to go out into the city and find suitable flats and apartments to snap. I never found the actual task difficult of taking picture of nice suitable flats but what I did find difficult of the expectation to go out in my own time and not college work time to find the perfect pictures to take. But when I finally did find my pictures and took them I was very happy with them and relieved. The process leading up to taking the pictures was not very difficult or time consuming. Pre planning what my pictures are going to be of, how I expect them to look and also why I want to take these particular pictures was reasonably straight forward for me cause I am interested in what I was doing which made it and enjoyable task for me to be involved in and complete. Finding my pictures was easy because I had a good idea of exactly what I wanted to do before I went out to take the pictures, deciding which angle to shoot the building from was a hard task in itself.

At first we had to draw up a brainstorm which consists of the type of camera we where planning to use, what we want our pictures to be off, an explanation of why we are interested in taking these photos and where was the most likely place for these pictures to be seen in the working world. This part of the pre production task was simple and easy to complete on time successfully. After we had drawn this brainstorm we posted the completed task on our blog. Our next step in this pre production stage of our work was to create a mood board which consists of images taken from the internet, the pictures had to be of the selected topic of pictures we chose so my mood board was of famous estates, flats and buildings from around London and this is the mood board I was hoping to create with my own taken pictures. After we had completed our mood board we had to post it on our blog page. 

in order to make my pictures as professional as i possibly could i gave them a raw look to them by using no editing and shooting them in there actual looking surroundings as you would see in the properties and estate agencies and magazines, i also scoped different areas which i found nice looking estates and tower blocks i had to have abit of range in the quality of flats and areas so i went to rich areas such as Maida Vaile and Kensal Rise i also took shots in areas such as south Kilburn and Labroke grove these are all located in different types of London. for the more higher distance tower blocks i used long depth of field such as the labroke grove K9 building. by visiting different places i felt that i could achieve more of a professional portfolio. I would compare my work to the likes of professional photographers in the same business because i use a cannon DSLR such as they do i also use a shallow depth of field to catch a nicer image of a tall structure. however i feel that i could improve to the levels of a professional by maybe taking more of a variety of photos of the same structure maybe a shot of the hallways and rooms etc i could also change the IOS to capture more varieties of shots of the buildings      

CONCLUSION

I conclude that this task was enjoyable for me and that I had fun completing it but the only part of the task which I found difficult and time consuming was finding the time to go out into the city in my own time to the different locations which my buildings and flats where located. Apart from that small difficulty which I overcame in the end to complete my work.

flats and estates