u1 w20
January 31, 2008
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project proposal
January 27, 2008
u1 project proposal
January 6, 2008
Working Title:
Everyday movements as portraits
Aim:
My aim is to create videos/still photographed portraits through using sequences of filmed or photographed common everyday movements such as walking, turning, bending ,reaching etc.
Objectives:
To consider the place and part these unconsidered everyday movements have in building and reflecting our identities as individuals.
Rationale:
Throughout he project I wish to research the link between our movements and identities as individuals.
From birth we begin to learn through spacial information that helps us to place ourselves in the world and our relationships. We learn through our bodies. This process continues throughout our lives and relationships.
I am becoming interested in how this process may or may not be affected in situations such as those that take place on this course where many of us will communicate with out ever physically meeting or seeing each-other.
Does this change our experiences,our understandings, what do we do without the usual physical signal we rely on when meeting face to face
Is there a chance that subtly over time as we have maybe less face to face contact and more on line that our communication structures and even identities will change?
Outcomes:
By the end of the project I hope to create a video piece,possibly if time is allowing, an installation.
Media:
Digital camcorder such as Handycam
Softwear such as Adobe CS3
Video editing soft wear such as Adobe Premiere.
Methodologies:
I wish to use the model of action research and create several projects to undertake over the period of the course. For example:
1) an online ongoing sketch book
2) a collaborative video piece of 30 second films taken by the MADA group of them selves moving which would be edited by all those choosing to take part. This could provide a way to explore how we ’see’ and experience each-other in the digital world.
3) Further explore video making techniques.
4) Aim to photograph/video for a year visiting a particular location. Use this to examine the part that connection with an environment plays in the idea of the development of the self.
5) Try videoing self when interacting face to face and when on-line. Is there a difference?
Risk Assessment:
Each project may require different risk assessment and practice, so I will aim to follow good practice guideline for each situation. These could include
1) following safe practice guidelines when filming in bad weather, at night or busy environments.
2) Getting permission to film in certain situations.
3) in final piece checking that all equipment meets safety guidelines.
4) Following good practice guidelines while working at the computer etc.
Timetable:
The time table will be shaped by the 2 year period of the MADA course.
So to date these past 15 weeks have been spent in basic research into ideas, context and methods. These ideas will be refined over the next 7 months through the methodologies listed above and further developed in to a final piece.
u1 w14
December 16, 2007
Reflecting on the progress of the project proposal is interesting as the essay is something I struggle with. It is very easy to be distracted and taken away from the task by other events.
I have put together a small list of books. They seem to always open off in to other books and ideas making it hard to really know where to focus research. Working in this way requires more time than I really have and skills I know I am lacking in so I kept the list brief. It would be good to create a book log on this blog so as to be able to refer back to them.
That brings me to organization, another weak area for me. I was really impressed by Ayhan’s blog. It is wonderfully laid out. I am still trying to figure out how to move images around this editing space which I find pitifully small to work in.
I realised as well we are meant to be keeping a copy of this blog…so there is another thing to add to the must do list.
That really brings me back to the start that I realise working on the essay proposal that there is still a lot of ground to cover.
