Marking over Easter

All sketchbooks need to be handed in today so I can look at them, make sure that they contain all the relevant images from the photographers that you have looked at, at least 6 images from each, and a total of 6 photographers are required for the studio work you did.
Produce a list of all the sessions we did and write an evaluation to include all of them from animation and photography you did.
The David Hockney research work in images and videos needs to be included in your evaluation all the way back to the first sessions that we did on 2D flat animation.

Anyone who hasn't completed or finished all their work properly will not be doing an FMP as you will be finishing this work off. So its up to go over all of your work to make sure everything is done.

Look at the tutor site, the criteria and the assignment papers on there to make sure and check all your work with.

What is an evaluation?

It must include you comparing and contrasting your work against your research, all your thoughts and ideas, what went well, what did you struggle with. What would you do next time that would improve what you have done.

What part of each area did you enjoy the most and why, did you like animation or did you prefer photography. Explain this in detail, you need to write the same as one sheet of A4 paper and preferably more for each evaluation.

Also you need to make sure that you include each lesson that you did to help you to write the evaluation.
You need to write one for animation and another for photography by this Thursday which is the final hand in day.

Evaluations and final hand in day

Can you all make sure that all of your work is handed in next week, all sketchbooks need to be here. All blog work work needs to be finished as well.
All of the work for both units will be marked and graded over Easter. A final evaluation for photography and another seperate one will need to be done for the animation that you have done.
Check the tutor support website in order to make sure that you have read the assignment papers and produced work to meet all of the required criteria.

I have offered everyone the chance to gather any missing images over the last few weeks so everybody should have everything that they need to complete this course.

After the Easter break you will be working on your FMP projects as discussed with Lance, all time will be devoted to this after Easter and preparations should be made as regards you intended ideas as they need to be written into your proposals.

3 weeks left before Easter break

From now on on this course you have 3 weeks left to finish off any aspect of your work. That will include making sure that you have all completed making an animation video.
Also have you made sure that you have all completed your studio portraits and finished them in photoshop.

Then it will be the easter break, after which you will all be specializing in one area of your choice, photography, graphics or animation or a combination of these.
All of you have enough studio images that you have taken, so should be able to finish off your blogs regarding this work.

Also the studio photography that you have done will need finishing off in photoshop, we will do this on Thursday's sessions.

The arrival of spring theme we did for the last few sessions needs finishing off as well, again the triptych images will be layered together on a Thursday when we do the photoshop sessions as we did with the Hockney images.

Finishing off what is required is vital in order to pass this course and must be done, I will be going through with each of you on Thursday what you need to do in order to pass and finish this course and the work you are doing for me.

Today I want you to take images for any area that you feel you haven't done properly and then these images will be used in the Thursday class to finish in photoshop.

You all have to focus more on research to support what you are doing as this is to give you ideas and inspiration, if this isn't happening then the photography and animation work becomes difficult to understand.
Use today fully to concentrate and either do stop frame photography, animation images in order to help you finish these units properly before Easter.

Apple iPad Art Exhibition in London

David Hockney - Arrival of Spring

The 'arrival of spring' photography that we did on tuesday was in response to the work of David Hockney as we discussed. The exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts from January until April.

He worked on this project with paint, photography, ipads and video so you will need to look into these areas when you do your research.

The images that you took of '6 different  areas with 6 images' in each area will need to be placed alongside each other (in a similar way to his work and how its arranged within the exhibition).

Can you sort out sets of 6 images off the front computer and put them into photoshop, I will show you how to place the images together in a block of 6 within photoshop document.

The whole point of this is that is 'stop frame photography' in a series, the gap between each shot can vary in time, and as Hockney, did space the project out over different seasons. The stop frame photography that you have done has to include people in one form or another in some scale or size within the shots.

They may be positioned in one image or across the scene, or be walking across as the pictures are taken that would be a creative way to resolve this assignment.

If the weather is good we will go out as a large group to do some photography over the washlands as the most important aspect of this type of photography is that it is done in a creative way.
We may (if there are enough cameras) set up 6 cameras on tripods altogether in an area and do a large version to see if it will work on a larger scale.
With this you could end up with 6 stop frame movies all joined together depending on how complex you wanted to make your work.