P&P Lesson 15 - Sara Nesteruk - Showreels

This is my end of year showreel, a compilation of everything i have created in my Process and Production lessons with Sara. The effects used in this video show just how far i have come in After Effects as i created the video from memory.

Collide: Image Replacement Experiments 3

Using some of my textures, i added my photos on top of them to give them a little bit more of a scrapbook effect.

Adding the film strip at the side of this photo was a really good effect.

This is a photograph of my mum as a child with her aunty and cousins and then her cousin as a baby with her uncle with some other vintage photos in the background.

I liked the way i managed to get the whole family in, plus my mum, to create a small collage instead of just one full photo of everyone.

Collide: Image Replacement Experiments 2

This is a brief mock-up of the kind of montages i would like to create using old photographs, letters, postcards, film and tickets. I would like to get hold of people's original photos and hand written letters and postcards to create a kind of story without knowing anything more about them. I also want the public to come up with a sort of story line that they have imagined from each montage and write them in a comment book.

Collide: Image Replacement Experiments 1

Using an image of my Grandma, i cut out around her and pasted her onto the background of a black and white photo of a river so it looks like she's a giant walking down the river like it is a road.

I also pasted an old telephone onto the image, replacing her head, because i saw an image similar in my research and my Grandma always used to be on the phone.

Collide: Textures

I have gathered a few of my favourite textures from www.freeimages.com to cut into my images.

Most of them are quite grungy and rusty as i feel they add a bit a depth to the image instead of a flat lifeless colour.

Collide: Artist - Lukas Graham - 7 Years

Lukas Graham is a new music artist gaining his fame from his hit song - 7 Years. His music video is a fabulous collage of his journey through his life and into fame, showing every step he took.

This is a brilliant idea to show a journey through anything which i could bring into my Collide project using my family photos.

Collide: Cows & Cows & Cows

These are a few obscure clips from a music video called, unbelievably, ‘Cows & Cows & Cows’ by Cyriak.  An incredible video that not only uses looping but manipulation of the characters in the video.

Collide: Bonobo - Cirrus

These are a few amazing clips from a music video called, Cirrus by Bonobo created by Cyriak. A fantastic use of the looping technique - something i have learnt about in my Process and Production lessons.

Collide: Artist - Cyriak

Cyriak is an awesome yet modest British artist specialising in looping animation GIFs and image replacement.He has worked for E4 Stings, Impractical Jokers, IT Crowd, Bloc Party, Bonobo, Coca-Cola and many more!

His style is something absolutely mindblowing and i really want to give it a go with images.

Collide: My Family Photos

After doing a lot of research on Pinterest, I have developed my idea into less of a scrapbook collage and more of a photo/texture and image replacement collage.

My next step is to collect some old family photos and a selection of textures to incorporate into my images.

I took a trip to London to see my grandma and she gave me all of her photographs that she has stored away.

A couple of them date back to before she moved from Guyana to the UK aged around 18 years old.

One of my favourites is when she had just begun Nursing School in London and she saw her from fall of snow. Coming from a Meditteranean country, she had never seen snow before.

P&P Lesson 14 - Nick Deakin - Analogue Communique 2 (Experimentation & Final)

I didn't feel like my first wax experiment worked so I had another go but this time all I used were some of my silicone cake decorating moulds and a shot glass to melt the wax into.

  

After 3 hours of slowly melting each crayon, pouring it into the mould, letting it cool then taking it out of the mould, I was finally done! 3 leaves and 3 roses. 

I then moved onto trying to make letters with my leaves and roses, shuffling them around, taking some away then putting them back.

These are my final letters and words I have made out of them.

Collide: Artist - Eugenia Loli

“It's important for me to "say" something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there's a meaning behind them. I usually do this via presenting a "narrative" scene in my collages, like there's something bigger going on than what's merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it's horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it's chill. I leave it to the viewer's imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot.” - EUGENIA LOLI

Eugenia is now my number 1 favourite artists. I found a lot of her work by searching for “Vintage Photo Collage” on Pinterest. After clicking on a few of the images i liked, i realised that most of them were by her.

She creates art like i have never seen. Incorporating black and white images with colour but so skillfully that it doesn't look out of place.

Collide: The Meaning Of Colour

Colour is a lot more than just something we see, it can also create feelings. Powerful feelings that, when used in art, can affect the way you see the piece.

For example; the colour blue is associated with the sky and water but also has links to feelings of trust and peace. You may use this colour when representing a family unit.

Your favourite colour says a lot about your personality, so , for instance, my favourite colour is purple and often blue as well. This shows i am a creative person with a big imagination as well as loyal and trustworthy.

I want to use the meanings and emotions of colour in my outcomes to help support what they mean.

Collide: Vintage Image Replacement Moodboard