Wednesday, 8 October 2008

V&A - Capturing the 21st Century

The creative and media group went to the V&A on the 17th of September 2008. We first went to the art studio and had an induction day of what capture is really about.

Capture - Capturing the moment/event. You can capture by creating a video, blog photographs, etc. Also by collecting objects from the past to create what has changed from then to now.

We then had a tour around the 20th century section by Gareth Williams [the curator of furniture]. Most of the objects in the 20th century can tell a story or can show you what technology or furniture was like in the old days. Some of the objects they used reflect the kind of designs nowadays.

We then got told to pick three objects that we found interesting and capture the object. I sketched the objects and took photographs.

I chose the 1990's Shoe made by Vivienne Westwood, the first wireless home phone by the British telecommunication company and, the stereo cassette player by Sony Tokyo Japan in the 1979.

I chose the 1990's shoe because it reminded me of how the 90's fashion was. The wireless home phone was chosen because it reminded me of an old big brick phone. The cassette player reminded of when i had one when i was a little girl in the 90's.






After we picked what we liked we then went back to the art studio and done an exercise. We had to go into groups, although our group was small we stayed as a group altogether. We had to then tell each other in the group what objects we picked from the 20th century gallery. We then chose 3 we liked, 3 we didn't like and 3 examples that should be added in the gallery. I think my group chose the Nike shoe, the 1st mobile phone and the cassette player. We then chose 3 things that was use-less in the gallery and i think most of them we chose was furniture. The three things we thought that should go in the gallery was a game boy, sweets and another object but i'm not sure what it was. We created a poster on what we planned out about the objects in the gallery and presented it to the whole group that was in the art studio.

We then had lunch.

After lunch we then got told we had to go around the gallery to explore what is going on and select a section we like and take three objects or more we liked. Rana & i picked jewellery. We then picked three objects we liked. We drew them.

In conclusion the gallery overall i liked the jewellery section and the fashion section, because the jewellery section was very bright with all the lighting, and the fashion just caught my eye because of what people used to wear in the past.

These are the pieces of work i done in my sketch book.












These are the drawings i done when Rana and i selected an area we liked in the museum. We absolutely liked the jewellery section because the light must had attracted our eyes.











Tuesday, 30 September 2008

SOUTHWARK COLLEGE - 30th Sept '08

Toby - Learnt how to function an SLR camera. Learnt a what aperture and shutter mode was, and how to create a good photograph.

Paul - Learnt went around Bermondsey and took photographs. To capture the area.

Fiona - Went to the V&A museum and explored around the museum. Also went around the college and sketched out visual records.

Sean - Went to the Tate modern museum with the national media class and watched various video's. We also collected things around Bermondsey for the map we created with Fiona. We also made a short diary on what happened when we went around Bermondsey. [Poem/Essay]

Leonora <3

Thursday, 15 May 2008

15th may 2008

Took a video of the introduction and captured it into the computer!

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

13th may 08

Checked all the paper work to see if we needed to add in anything or edit anything ready to film for this Saturday and Sunday!

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

6th May 08

Fixed up all the paper work before production date!

Thursday, 1 May 2008

1st May 2008

Katie and I made a glossary of the technical terms and do the production section.

29th April 2008

Katie and i printed all needed forms, she made the storyboard while I filled in the risk assessment sheet. I also done some of the storyboards while Katie filled in the forms to fit in with our assignment.