Experimental Sound: The Screaming Pope

Today we were given our art forms that would be the basis of our own personal experimental sound design project. I got given the 1953 painting "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" by an Irish artist, Francis Bacon. As

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Time Art: 3 Ideas

Idea One This one is kind of based loosely around The Twilight Zone and the sort of visuals that come from the TV show. The concept involves a person being sucked into another dimension- the fourth one (ie time when

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Time Art: Mind Map

I had a brainstorming session and made a list of vague ideas where I can choose which ones to look into and research further. 

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Reflections: Creative Writing

Article Task  Mine and Tom's  creative writing task where we made up a short paragraph out of different articles in magazines.  "Books have taken a battering recently but professional advice is invaluable. What turns me on, the joy of extremely violent

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Reflections Film : Inspiration

PAPER MEMORIES from Theo Putzu on Vimeo. "> I've done some research into how memories have been represented in previous works to gain some inspiration for my own work and hopefully to inspire some ideas.  Drunk// Ed Sheeran About the

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Reflections: Re-enactment Project

We were asked to make a re-enactment of a historic event of our choice and as a person from Northern Ireland I think we all instantly came to a collective decision for me to do the potato famine. I thought I

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Reflections: Screening

The Five Obstructions// Lars Von Trier and Jorgen Leth  The idea behind this documentary style film was that Von Trier was to set his mentor, Leth, to remake his move The Perfect Human five times, with a different obstruction for

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Reflections: Subverting Consumerism Task

My original idea was to find the most random adverts and compile them together to show just how ridiculous many ads have become, however this didn't really have much of a thought process or meaning to it. I then thought

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Time Art: After Effects Tutorials

As a beginner at After Effects I've been looking into tutorials that interest me and seeing if there is any way I can incorporate them into the project, so as to broaden my skills while keeping me engaged. At first After

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Time Art: Workshop Thoughts

Just a quick update about the workshop today. Vicky showed us a lot of her own work and talked about how to do effective research. I thought it was cool how she had used bits of the body to make her

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Reflections : Christmas Project

Over Christmas we were asked to do a little project in which we had to find a memory we wish to remember in six different ways. I chose to do my memory of going to Florida over the summer, one of

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Reflections: Screening #2

We were shown a selection of experimental art, as well as more traditional documentary videos. I liked this as it meant we got to see a range of different style clips and it kept me more engaged and interested in seeing

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Reflections: Screening #1

This was our first day back after Christmas, and Rosie gave us the brief for what we would be doing this semester in the reflections module: A digital film project and a series of five photographs based around the idea of

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Reflections: Studio Flash Workshop

The lesson was very practical and I found this very helpful as I was able to remember important details from actually doing it myself and learning from any mistakes I made. We were shown how to mount the flash and use

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Time Art: Ideas

Time is a very open topic, and the amount of ideas that come with it are endless. However choosing an idea that will mean the three screen installation will work effectively is very tricky, as well as considering what different

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