D+P Exhibition Brief

Proposal

For this project I am in charge of producing the labels for each piece of artwork. I aim to use my English skills to help others in the group formulate a concise and coherent written blurb to enable viewers to easily browse the work on display. By doing this I hope to improve my skills in InDesign as I am not confident using this application. When my job is in its less demanding phases I will do what I can to contribute to the organisation of the show, such as providing work for the show reel and helping the curators organise work. 

Responsibilities

For the collective exhibition I was in charge of producing the labels and blurbs for each piece of artwork. I worked with Jason who helped me produce a template for the labels on InDesign which was good as I was able to learn more about this software and practice using it. The proof reading was harder than I thought as some people’s blurbs needed quite a lot of correcting and it was difficult doing this without the piece of work in front of me as I didn’t know if my corrections would make sense next to the actual artwork. It definitely makes you realise how much changing the sentence structure and not necessarily the words really alters what a sentence is saying. Some people also gave me more than a concise paragraph so it was difficult to correct it and stick to the word limit as I didn't know which parts were the most important to include.

I collated all of the blurbs and titles I got sent sent in Word first and read through and corrected them in here. I then copied and pasted them into the InDesign template.

As I was working with indesign quite closely I learnt how to do a few things that I didn't know before like making paragraph and font presets, how to get the text to stop automatically hyphenating at the end of the line and how to add guides to a document. I also probably learnt other uses of InDesign without realising it but these are just some of them that stood out to me. These might seem like small and simple skills but they make all the difference when producing documents and will probably come in useful later on.

Physical works for the show

These were two prints I produced in the print making workshop and were the only pieces I chose to display physically in the exhibition. I displayed them this way as I thought that the trueness of the colours and the texures could only be properly appriciated by putting them in front of the viewers in their material form.

Works for show reel

For the show reel I submitted the final pieces for both the FOS project and the SOC project and displayed them this way for obvious reasons. I was proud of how much I learned in terms of animating using Photoshop and wanted to showcase this achievement. 

T, D+P "Sounds of the city"- making the final piece

To be honest at first I didn't really get how we would collate all the material we got into creating a final outcome. I was bit confused as to how it was going to look and how we would split up the different roles between us. One member of the group decided to animate the person walking and the other two (me included) set out to produce the background imagery for the moving image. I was a bit stressed out at the beginning of the week as I wasn't totally sure on what I was meant to be doing. We probably should have organised the jobs a bit better, making everyone clear on what they were supposed to be doing to progress the project. However as the days went on and I looked through the footage, the ideas started to develop and I felt we began to work much better as a group.

We split the film up into three sections: the person walking through the city, then a more suburban environment, into the park. I was in charge of producing the backgrounds for the more nature filled environments and began by painting a woodland image.

I put this together with one of the video footages we took and experimented with how I might animate this still image, syncing the movement with the sounds in the video. This was the end result:

I also wanted to work with drawing on top of a video layer and thought of making a leaf look like it was growing over my previous video of the leaves rustling in the wind.

I was quite please with the outcome of this as I thought the gradual growing of the leaves and the boiling affect that I made them have seemed to match the sirens in the background.