Robbie showed us  Steve Reich’s Come Out (Original Version), thus introducing the idea of looping sound. It’s a bizarre, nightmarish effect.

Later, our tutor talked about using Edward De Bono’s Six Hats in regards to critiquing each other’s work. Here is a summary of them in terms of colour:

Yellow

A positive, optimistic response/something that works well

Red

Initial ‘feeling’ or hunch, immediate ‘gut reaction’.

Black

Something that doesn’t work

Green

Alternatives, creative ideas sparked by the work.

NOTES ON STUDENTS’ WORK ON MY TABLE

Maddy’s – wind chimes – delightful but annoying. Like the architecture in the images of her pile of books.

Rose – ‘false perspective’ under a sheet from a great distance made her look like she was a piece of tissue on a pavement

Jess – stop motion – travel articles – gave the work energy, movement.

Oliver – showed his eccentric character through the anachronistic group, LARP.

REFLECTION

It was great to see different perspectives on self portrait. I don’t recall her name but she took a polaroid of herself and filmed it developing. Brilliant!

Seeing other students’  work helps me to loosen up my own style and think in new ways of presenting creatively rather than relying on found footage.

Also, the ‘mind map’ that Robbie provided looks like an ordered way to congeal creative images and text.

Lastly, and which was really useful was Use ‘Lynda’ which is a website on how to use programs.