Exploration and Discovery Final Piece

For my final piece in this project I decided to brainstorm things I could do, these were my inital ideas:

- Longboards

- video

- stopmotion

- sequence

I then thought to myself that I shouldn't choose longboarding as I only began longboarding last year for a few months, so I decided to do something with guitar/music or football because I have been doing those things since I was very little and I enjoy doing them a lot.

          As I was thinking I came across a video which gave me a really big inspiration.  The video was this guy playing guitar but in stop motion, this looked very good because he was using picture in picture and things like that to play a classical piece which requires more than one person (orchestra).  I instantly decided I wanted to do a stop motion with my guitar.

This is the video that inspired my idea<---- Click link.

       Before I began, I had to find out how to do this because it was a very unique thing and as there wasn't many people who had done this sort of thing and uploaded it, I had to figure it out by knowing how to use my camera well to its full potential.  I thought at first that he was taking a picture with sound (which you can take with certain cameras) but then noticed that at the beginning he starts out as a video then goes into this stop motion and at the end he flows into a video without it looking like photo's being edited.  It was then when I realised he was actually recording videos of him playing one note then stopping it and recording playing the next note, then editing all of it to put it together so it flows.

       Now that I knew how to actually do this type of stop motion I had to decide what i wanted to play (e.g song, anthem, theme tune). I thought of doing the Spanish anthem, as I am half Spanish, and began to think what things could I add to make it more fun to what and more entertaining, so I decided to also add a second guitar and have chords playing and also another guitar playing the tune.

       I now knew what I exactly wanted to do so I began filming one note at a time.  When I had them all done I then put them all on Sony Vegas Pro 8 to edit them.

I cropped all the films by splitting and deleting the parts I didn't need so
it actually sounded like a song.

I then did the same for the other guitar part.

The final piece of major editing I had to do before it was complete was
making the PiP (picture in picture) so that the two videos could be seen at the same time
whilst playing at the same time.  I did this by opening each video and Panning and cropping them,
I pulled the corners out which made the video image smaller.  I did the same for every clip.

I then just tweaked with it and gave it its finishing touches and
I was done.

Final Piece

Composition

These pictures are just some experiments of composition.

This is only the beginning of my experiments however I decided to layer another image that I got from google images and try make a link between my picture and that one.

I also took another portrait I had and decided to put it into photoshop to edit it. 

I began by getting a potrait of me and then copying it

so it was oppsite and looking at my original one.

                         I then added another copy of the portrait and rotated them  a tiny bit to make

them come together.

I added a final copy to make a kind of sequence.

I then changed the darkness on the images to make go from

complete black to grey.

Final Piece.



This is another piece that I did before.



Golden Ratio

Golden Ratio

In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.61803398874989. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section (Latin: sectio aurea) and golden mean. Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio, medial section, divine proportion, divine section (Latin: sectio divina), golden proportion, golden cut, golden number, and mean of Phidias. In this article the golden ratio is denoted by the Greek lowercase letter phi (φ), while its reciprocal, 1 / φ or φ ^{− 1}, is denoted by the uppercase variant Phi(Φ).
The Golden ratio can also be used in photography.  Many say that some people’s faces have the golden ratio, mainly because its nice to the eye, nice to look at.                           

Idris Khan

Idris Khan

Idris Khan was born in 1978, Birmingham, England.  He is an artist based in London.
His work comprises digital photographs that superimpose iconic text or image sets into a single frame (for instance, every page of the Qur'an, every Beethoven sonata, every William Turner postcard from Tate Britain), or every Bernd and Hilla Becher spherical gasholder.
Khan received a First in his BA from the University of Derby in 2000 and his MA with Distinction from the Royal College of Art in 2004. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including those at the Taidehalli in Helsinki, Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland, Victoria Miro Gallery in London and the Saatchi Gallery in London. He also created the cover art for Editors album An End Has A Start which utilises techniques he used in his Becher on Becher series of industrial buildings, in this case a gas-works.
He is represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte (Berlin), Victoria Miro Gallery (London), Yvon Lambert Gallery (Paris) and Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco).

Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko-:

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born 5 December 1891 was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova.
Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photo-montage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

Stephen Gill Experiments

For my Stephen Gill experiments I decided to take inspiration with his back of billboards photo's and I thought about instead of having billboards I thought about having the back of televisions and what there is behind them that we don't see like the wiring for example.

I decided to take pictures of the wiring behind the Television as no one really looks behind there or cares what there is behind.  Many people diminish the importance of these wires and don't exactly care about them, however I believe they have much more meaning.  For a start these wires contain the electricity to work the television, without them the circuit would not be complete.  Also the wires all have there own small groups of different colours and lengths which divides them all into little communities as if they were some sort of family or friends, they tangle each other just as people do when they hug or maybe fight.  I find this also links well with Stephens Gills work because of the thought and imagination how there is more to these wires than just copper and plastic.

I took another picture off the back of another Television thinking about what else I could do and how I could improve just the fact of having the back as a picture.

I then decided to have a picture with someone in (in this case me) where it was as if they were looking at the back of this television as if they were actually watching it normally which I found a very qwerky idea and one which I think that works very well.  I took more with me situated in different places.

In my opinion although these pictures are not the best quality and are quite dark I still find the use off inanimate objects such as the Television which can be used to watch programs, is used differently or a story is just added to it which no one really could have thought about.  I find this links in very well with Stephen Gill's work as there is a lot of imagination in these ideas.

Stephen Gill

Gill began photography at a young age. In 1985, while still at school, Gill began work with a Bristol-based photography company, copying and restoring old photographs. Two years later, he began working full-time in a one-hour photo lab. In 1992 he enrolled in a Photography Foundation course at Filton College in Bristol and, a year later, began work at Magnum Photos in London. In 1997 he become freelance photographer
Gill currently lives in Hackney, London, England. 
Gill’s photographs are held in private and public collections and have also been exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Decima Gallery, Agnes B, the Victoria Miro Gallery, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, the Gun Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, Palais des Beaux Arts, Leighton House Museum, and Haus der Kunst.
Gill's photographs have appeared in international magazines including The Guardian Weekend, Le Monde 2, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, The Telegraph Magazine, I-D magazine, The Observer, Blind Spot and Colors.



I find his work very clever because he makes things that we would never think about looking at, let alone taking a picture, and giving it a life and adding a story behind it which we would never have thought of.