finished Video

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Feed Back

Positive

Im glad people like the sound track of the project, it took me and tom a long time to find it.

People picked up on the speed of the project. it was made so fast because we had a time limit but we also wanted to show how people want to get there 'Art' done and leave before being seen.

people like the concept of out project .

Negative

Although most people liked the fast pace of the video others didn't.

most people don't like the zoom at the end so on reflection i would take it out if i had more time.

people thought it was too dark, again i would lighten the video with more time.

and also add a longer show of the finished work at the end.

Filming

We finaly found a wall to pint on. It’s a wall i knew about, and we went to see it earlier in the day, and went to ask the owner if we could use it. The wall is on the back of persons garage which backs onto an alley. This is what it looked like before we had done anything to it.



We went back to Long Road to get a camera, our paint and masking tape. It took about 20 minutes to drive from college to the wall so we didn't want to go back and forth too much.
We got back to the location with all the equipment and Toms Girlfriend to take pictures of us to use as evidence.





While we were filming putting the masking tape on the wall the camera had turned off. We thought we must have just forgotten to press record and the camera had turned its self off. But when we turned it back on to record again it came up with the message ‘Battery power low”. This was a problem and something we should have checked before we left college. This meant that we had to drive the 20 minutes back to Long. This took a big chunk out of our time and we had planned it so that we wouldn't loose to much light and there wouldn’t be many people walking in front of the camera or questioning us. With much bad luck we arrived back as the village school had finished and there was a lot of kids all over the place. Somehow we managed to do all the spray painting with no interruption which amazed me.
To let the paint dry we left it and went to the car. So when we put the camera back down, it was in a slightly different position. Hopefully this will not be too much of an issue because we sped the video up so much.
We made a Some mistakes which we really should have Avoided. I think the reason that we didn’t is because we were too focused on finding a wall to use and making sure we had enough time to do it.
This is the finished video.

Risk Task from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Today

Today i looked for a royalty free music source. As Tom was not here i could not do any editing for my final video. I could not find and free music that was suitable for our video.

So far we still need to find a music source. and edit the video.
We will complete this tomorrow.

Trying to find location

Me and tom went out today to buy some paint. as we were driving we kept an eye out for a suitable location to paint.
we found a wall on a side road linked to the side of a shop and asked inside if we could use the wall. The man said he did own the wall but wasn't prepared to let us 'Graffiti/vandalise' the wall.
i know of a wall we could use in Sawston we may be able to use. I will ask if we can today and we will film after college on thursday, leaving friday to edit and do anything else we need to finnish.

Trying to find permission

Me and tom phoned a few people to try and get permission to spray paint on a wall somewhere in cambridge. First we phones the cambridge city council to see if they had anywhere which was designated to people that want to do graffiti which there isnt. They said we need to find a wall then we have to find out who owns it and ask them for permission. We knew that there is a bridge on long road with graffiti on it already but we ruled it out as the guided bus way is under it. We found out from a quick google search that the County Council are contracting the guided bus way so we gave them a call to ask permission to use the bridge under long road. They said that unfortunately the hole guided bus way is a construction site and so we would not be aloud down there without hard hats and high vis jackets. They also said that they wouldn’t indorse the use of graffiti or vandalism in anyway.

Backup Plan

It has been raining allot the past few days so me and tom thought it would be a good idea to have a backup plan because we cant spray paint in the rain raining. Our back up plan in is to still make a big stencil but have to do it using felt pens rather than spray paint. Another option would be to ask Coleridge if they have a spare art room where we could use spray paint.

The weather is not supposed to be bad so we should not need to rely on either of these.

Video test

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This is a test for mine and Toms final video. because the peeling of the masking tape took so long we had to speed up the footage by 1500% so it would happen faster.

This shows us that on a bigger scale to fit it all in we will need to do alot of speed editing.

This is the final idea for our project.

Risk Trials

This is a digital and mini version of our final idea.

Digital version:

Mini version:

The digital version was created by Tom on photoshop wile i did the mini version on a printed picture of Graffiti. I blanked out the text with some masking tape and then drew a pattern over it, Then peeled off the tape to revile the text.

Today!

Today we did a second checkpoint in our sketchbook and a sheet about stuff we are going to need for our project.

Resource Requirements:

Technical Equipment:

HD Camera

Tripod

HD Tape

Mac at Cole

Final Cut

Fire Wire

Art Equipment:

Black spray paint

Thick masking tape

Ladder

Miscellaneous:

Spray Paintable Wall

This list was very helpful to put across the process of planning, Because nick got us to write it the asked what we had written. After reeding out the list nick said that we even need to put down the small things you wouldn't normally think about, for example Fire Wire.

pier

I have taken what Yaz has said and i am going to crate a post about every lesson we do.

i am also going to be posting a post researching risk.

mockup

This is the style me and tom were thinking about doing in the final video.

Another version or the same masking.

We arnt sure yet wether we wil just record the video and leave it as it is, or

edit with effects turning it into animation or changing colours.

we had an idea, which involved creating a template of a face and spraying it

in different locations. But decided against it because we could only rely spray

in one place because of time constraints and finding locations to legally spray

paint.

Homework: Experimental and Underground cinema

I rely liked This video. it over the top feel to it ether makes you laugh of want to be sick. wile watching it lulls you into a a seance of sicurity then

proceeds to cut his face multiple times.

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director,screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of the Film Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to film preservation and the prevention of the decaying of motion picture film stock.

Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, and violence. Scorsese is widely considered to be one of the most significant and influential American filmmakers of his era, directing landmark films such as Taxi Driver,Raging Bull and Goodfellas—all of which he collaborated on with actor Robert De Niro. He won theAcademy Award for Best Director for The Departed and earned an MFA in film directing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese)

The Big Shave is a 1967 six-minute short film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is also known as Viet '67.

Peter Bernuth stars as the recipient of the title shave, repeatedly shaving away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in theVietnam War, prompted by the film's alternative title. The music accompanying the film is Bunny Berigan's "I Can't Get Started", recorded in 1939. The film was produced at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for a film production class called Sight & Sound Film.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Shave)

Finished animation

Today we projected our picture of the 'Running Thing' on the board and traced it onto a pice of card.

we then took it out side so take a picture of every movement of the board along a wall. we first did not think the pictures came out properly out side so we also took some inside. wile editing the shots we could see the 'Running Thing' more clearly on the computer screen so we decided to use both.

Here is the finished video.

I rely enjoyed this task. seeing the picture slowly come to life from a flat cartoon to a running image on a piece of cardboard. i found this task very challenging and tiring but glad we did it.

Todays Animation lesson

Today we were given a task to create a moving Graffiti animation.

Steve showed us the one he made and told us that the animation had to loop.

This is what me and Tom ended up with.

The animation had to be at-least five frames long and had to be able to loop to give the illusion of continuos movement.

We found this task very had because we were told we could animate what ever we wanted and had almost no guidelines, and left us feeling lost for something to draw.

I enjoyed seeing my animation in motion.

Today at Coleridge we watched abstract films Pete thought were related to risk. We watched seven videos.Colourbox, Fuzzbox, La Region Centrale, Dog star man, Berlin Horse, Scorpio and Big Shave.

We were asked to find out what we can about two of the artists, me and tom had to do The big shave and La Region Centrale

here are the videos me and Tom had a look at.

I found this task veary usefull in understanding the point to our risk task and understanding what a creative risk was.

Graffiti Art History

planing

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9YVHiK7j3SQ/SMCdt5hIYWI/AAAAAAAACe0/bkpaGs28TDE/IMG_2610.JPG

http://;ibrary.thinkquest.org/07aug/02099/history.html

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4066727.ece

These are referances to my information on my timeline of Graffiti Art.

i also got some information from a book i have called the art of Graffiti, on page 23.

The book was published in 1990 by AuthorHouse

Margaret Kilgallen

Kilgallen was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up nearby in Kensington, Maryland. She received a BA inprintmaking from Colorado College in 1989 and an MFA from Stanford University in 2001. Kilgallen died in 2001, at age 33, from complications of breast cancer three weeks after the birth of Asha, her daughter with her husband and collaborator Barry McGee. Kilgallen has since been the subject of several posthumous retrospectives.

Mural, LACMA parking garage (now torn down) by Margaret Kilgallen

Kilgallen's first major group exhibitions appeared in 1997 and included the first Bay Area Now show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, soon followed by a solo exhibition at The Drawing Center in New York City. In 2000, she and Barry McGee had a featured exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum. A number of major exhibitions took place after her death. In 2002, her work was chosen for that year's Whitney Biennial. In 2005, a survey of her work was shown at the Gallery at REDCAT. Her work was also an important part of the 2004–2006 touring exhibit, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture.

Other galleries that have exhibited her work include the Luggage Store in San Francisco; Gallery 16 in San Francisco; Forum for Contemporary Art in St. Louis; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

Animation Lesson.

In media today we did about animation.

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.

We were given a task to do following instructions using 2-D art work to make a image of a ball bounce over a page, Following an arch that had to be the same as the one on the original Animation.

After we did this we had to design and created out own animation.

i enjoyed this lesson because i was interested how these sorts of animations were created. i think this will help me later because i would like to use it in a project we will do.

Bouncing Ball Exercise

This is my finished flickbook animation.

L3 ROB'S ANIMATION BOOK from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

My Beautiful Losers Review

Beautiful Losers is a 2007 documentary feature film by director Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard. It was produced by Sidetrack Films and stars Harmony Korine, writer of independent cult films Kids and Gummo.

It premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2008 and later in general release on August 8, 2008 at the IFC Center in New York City.

In the early 1990's a group of like artists found eachother at a NewYork City storefront gallery. artists braching from the subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. They went on to develop their art with almost no influence from the established art world, this group, have now become a movement that has been transforming meany peoples view on art.

Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on telling the stories of these 'main' artists.

A series of interviews with these artists explains their reasoning behind their style of art. As some of these artists discuss their growth in artistic culture they explain how becoming famouse in the art world was something that never thought would happen to them.

As many of the artists began to be recognized they discuss their success: creating advertisements for popular products, designing products themselves, working in film and being hired to paint and create artwork in well known locations.

The film was preceded by a published art collection titled Beautiful Losers. The book was published by Iconoclast Editions and edited by co-curators Christian Strike and Aaron Rose, who directed the film.

The artists discussed and interviewed in the film include Thomas Campbell, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Steven "Espo" Powers, Aaron Rose, Ed Templeton and Deanna Templeton.