First Week Back

Tutorial with Katrina

We discussed my practical work and agreed that if I am to produce a successful, accurate account of my performance for the assessment panel I must stage it in advance to give myself enough time to document it fully. I'd like to create a single screen work out of the performance piece as opposed to just a documentation of the work so will need to consider how to do this and what it will entail.

She also suggested I look at some Cunningham work to reference my theme of 'no fixed front'. It seems it's time to dig out the old books from my BA.

SDT

4-5 min promo for the Interactive programme plus documentation of their latest piece. We need extra bodies to help with filming and boom mike operating but people seem reluctant to get involved, hopefully the 4th years will be more proactive. We need to consider how to mike up Janet and how to ensure we cover all the material for maximum editing options.

DVD Pro Authoring

Fairly straightforward and probably best to try with a project in mind.

Feedback from Gair and Course Meeting

Everything seems to be on track for the year ahead. I have lots of projects planned and just want to get started. My feedback was pretty positive from both Gair and Katrina but I am conscious of not resting on my laurels and keeping the momentum going. I really want to get more practice editing and would like a proper intro to Final Cut as I missed the first one. We have the option of requesting workshops and there is money for library books so we'll need to make the most of it.

Gair - Tutorial 1

My first tutorial today with Gair has certainly left me with some food for thought.

He suggested I look at the work of Troika Ranch, Gina Czarnecki and Pipilotti Rist for their work with dance and visual art. Practically speaking I'm going to look at Isadora and how to document my practical work (obviously tutors aren't going to turn up to a club at 2am to find out what I'm doing). I will need to get another student to film my practical work in such a way that my input and the effects are clear.

I've also been looking at Pointless Creations who currently do the visuals for Death Disco at the Arches. One of the members of the collective, Jaygo Bloom, works with Isadora to create visuals so it would be great to get in touch with him and maybe go along one night to see how it all works.