Roles for the Bath & London Degree Shows; The Collective 2014

So at the start of the year Saskia and a few others went to London to find a gallery for us to exhibit our work once we have graduated. She went to view a gallery in Hoxton and made the decision this was a great space for us. Luckily everyone agreed and we’re all extremely excited to be showcasing our work there in June. I’ve also been contributing to the extensive list of industry professionals to invite to the private view on the 27th. 

During the last 6 months I have been carrying out 'Headshots' in order to raise funds for the grad show, where we will roughly need about £5,000 from start to finish. It was an easy way of getting money and building my rapport with clients etc, whilst also making use of my studio knowledge. 

We have also all been sharing our 'kickstarter' page in order to raise more funds and i have been sharing the website for the exhibition to people to raise awareness for the whole week so we don't have one massively busy day on the private view and it to be dead for the rest. 

http://thecollective2014.com/?page_id=92

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1261449723/the-collective

As for the Bath show I have been measuring out the spaces with the help of Matt Dear and with the advice of Andrew and other tutors we have been deciding which room should hold which art. Also we are in charge of the logistics of the bar -(A VERY IMPRTANT MATTER!!!). I think this will be a great networking opportunity for everybody exhibiting and hopefully form some good contacts and working relationships.

Woodland Creatures

Project 4: Moving Image with Space, Place and Location.

This brief is a little different from the others, instead of taking one individual image i will taking a moving image (film) of a place in Bath that has specific significance to me. We started to think about a place that is important to me, and being in a new city i realised that it would be somewhere where i feel comfortable and at home. 'Picnic in the Park' is a little cafe on the upper bristol road into Bath, and i walk past the cafe everytime i walk up to uni. Its got lovely wooden floors and writing on the walls and they serve the best full english breakfast i have ever had.

The moving image would be inspired by the stop start imagery used in the opening sequence of the hit tv series, 'Dexter'. The final piece would be edited to show a range of viewpoints of the cafe and why it is significant to me as an individual. We needed to add some music to it so we added a calm song by Jack Johnson, hope you like the final edit below!
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Preparation

Before I decided to do another shoot, I wanted to ensure that it would be brought to life with the right materials so I started looking in children’s stores for face paints to experiment with and hopefully successfully symbolise the immaturity of adolescence. The facepaints were used to paint masks on each individual model, to portray their personality. Red symbolising seduction and power, blue for rebellion and beauty each pair of models had a similar matching mask, to suggest that each personality doesn't have to apply to one specific sex.

Finding a range of models from different nationalities was a key concept for the meaning of the shoot, as growing up in an expatriate background I was surrounded by different cultures and nationalities from a young age.

After shadowing professional photographers, I was capable of setting up a studio-esque environment, and by using a black background the editing stages would be made easier, as the black would act as a 'blank canvas' for the merging of galaxy photographs without the hindrance of editing a white background. I adjusted the light frequency to suit the surroundings, as the black would act differently to light than a white background and by using a Sekonic L-3J8 I was able to time the lights to flash in co-ordination to the camera, for which I used my Canon D550 with a 18-135mm lens.