Create your own blog*, post link on the RCS Blog / Visual Journal.
*could be Flickr, pintrest, twitter feed, instagram etc as long as its a public publication of your work, your online identity as a practicing Artist/Designer. Vimeo for example would suit video artists better, that a blog 9 time out of 10.
Choose an image or use one provided from Blackboard and discuss them in no more than 500 words from an ethical perspective
Find 3 potential connections of appropriation and discuss (max 500 words)
– building
– inspired
– remixing
– satire
– commentary
Appropriation is not Snow white book, Disney Snow white, Barbie Snow White.
Recall my example looking at the film Star Wars
Much has been written about the influence Akira Kurosawa had on American films (Ebert ,R. 2001) The Seven Samurai is generally acknowledged to be the first use of the “horizon shot” when the bandits come pouring over the hilltop into view. The images I found of the 1800’s fire fighting breathing apparatus is likely to have inspired the costume/ prop department on Star Wars as well. And so on…you should discuss the connections a little more than I have.
Steve Erenberg, (?), Unknown [ONLINE]. Available at: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/before-steampunk-star-wars%E2%80%99-1800s-roots/ [Accessed 01 November 12].
Choose one commercial image (advert, fashion photograph, album cover… not a work of art) and perform a visual analysis. Download from Blackboard
Think about what this image is portraying, what story it’s trying to tell, and how it does this
Focus on issues of size, colour, technique and most importantly content and composition to unravel the meaning of the image.
Write 500 words about your analysis and make sure that you structure your writing like a mini -essay (introduction,development, conclusion)
Please choose one advert and perform a 500 word visual analysis using the method outlined in the lecture. Lecture slides and further readings designed to help you complete the task can be found in the Week 5 folder on Blackboard.
Graphic Arts students should download the brief from Blackboard and a selection of adverts from Blackboard. You need to choose ONE and perform a 500 word visual analysis using the method outlined in the lecture. The lecture slides and further readings designed to help you complete the task can be found in the Week 5 folder on Blackboard.
Continuing on from the themes/ideas you have in relation to your previous tasks:
On the blog scan these items in and describe the process that you went through to find these items and explain why you chose them. You can include additional relevant works about other artists and designers if you wish
Choose the text from your Programme (on Blackboard) and write a 500 words (max) as a reflective response to the text
Read, reflect and think critically on text you select
A Reflective Writing recipe;
http://www.geometryofpasta.co.uk/
What happened? What am I responding to? Event, image, text object?
What do I think? What do I feel? Whats my initial response?
What have I learned form this? What does this mean for the future?
Reflective writing is both a record (description) and a review (analysis and evaluation) of your work
(Moon 2004)
(all must have attribution)
Images must be accompanied by a text explaining where & why they were chosen & the connections between them.