week 2

end of week two and have been inspired about he project.

tuesdays meeting with jon was helpful.

started off with a piece of bread each and had to close our eyes as we think and listen to him talking about the bread the history and life the bread has gone through to be infrout of us now and how the seed is not alive but becomes alive as it is indroduced to water and warth. i found this queit intresting and made me think about the food we have around use and the thinks that we take for granded.

food is anything.
group work.. we were put in to groups and asked what food means to use.

our group desided on home grown food as we all find it homly and fresher than brought food and listed the advantages of home grown foods.

know where it's from,whats in it, feeling proud of what you have grown,seasonly effective,growing and eating in the right time, effctly better for the world although effect 3rd world exports.heathly exercise,educational. transport friendly,repersents nururing,only eating what you grow,package friendly,imperfections welcome,swap schemes,community base,incourages cooking,respect for the enviroment.

and we desided that it is important where you buy your food from where it is stored and how the animals are treated and killed.

although this is not always easy when you are a student and usally fair trade/organig food are more expensive.

we went on to talk about the relationship with food that we have such as :

metabolism difference,effect moods, food used as a treat,bribe or reward
family sitting down at a table together,celebrations, eating out at a resturants,
as a way of wellcoming some one to your home,
emotionally - comfort eating - eating disorders
cooking carming

start of year 2

the first year is over and the 2nd year has just begun.

week 1

had a meeting on tuesday to welcome us all back and introduce us to some new people.

jon explained about the next year and what plans are taking place,including networking and project work.
for this year we have been given a theme for the 1st and 2nd term which for the 1st term it is 'food' and the 2nd 'site'

since the metting i have been researching in to artist that have worked on food and also taked to people that have worked on food such as my friend's friend did a project on meat and made a dress out of meat. throught the course she planed and designed the piece and in the last week made the dress so that it would not go off. this idea was the thought behind being veggie.

on thursday we were asked to keep a diary of the food and drink that we consume from now until tuesday and bring it to the meeting. i have been keeping a wrighten diary and i might proced with this task through out the couse as consupution to my project and just a personal diary to see how i eat and how i could improve my diet.

for the next week i need to reseach more on food and artist that have worked around the theme of food.

my youtube channel

on youtube i have now created a channel to upload all my animaytions and short films on so that i will be able to keep all my work together and also be able to link views to the site to view my work

this link is

http://www.youtube.com/user/mugsofgravy

on the cahnnel i have past projects that i have done and also recent short animations i have produced experimation with white board animation

time

comletted the filming of time and i'm happy on how it's all coming together. walking around manchester looking for interesting spots to films is quiet interesting as you spot things and places that you wouldn't usally notice just walking by. found some intresting places to film and now i just need to edit the film in the studio and copy on to disk.

thinking about work experiance for the 2nd year i emails PES to ask if they wo9uld have me for a placement and i got a reply of there not sure what their scetual is at that time but they will keep me in mind and if they are doing anything at that time they would be happy to have me and also asked for link to my profolio so at the moment i'm trying tpo sent up a lil web page of all my videos.

also found other people to email which i will do tonight and hopfully get a reply soon ....

i have taking some shoots of the idea with the watch in different places such as walking in a park. being in bed, siting on a park bench and reading a magazine. i am pleased with the results and will continue to work more on this idea.

one problem i have found that it always bloody rains in manchester and it's not easy filming in a thrunder storm.

will contain filming in different areas and different places to see where works best and i also what to think about the angels and the directions that i am filming in.

following my idea on the time project i have thought about how to make my video and what the video shall consit of.

i have thought about having a actor and a watch. placing the person in different surondings such as a busy city street, a quite park, walikg in the rain, lying down in bed,reading the news paper,walikg in day light waliking at night.

all the time the actor with be looking at thier watch and very consnats of what the time is where ever they go and what ever they do.

time

time is the name of the 3 week project given to our class for an end of year project .

create a proformance/video/sturcture last last 3 minutes based on time ....

following this theme i did research in to

1) objects of time. how we measure time ??
using objects such as .... sun diles,egg timers,hours glasses,clockes,stop watches
units of time , secondes,minutes hours day weeks years decades.

2) linking to my quotes theme in my main prject this year i've looked at quotes about time for example -

time flies
time of war
hard times
time spent with a cat is never wasted
time is a illions ect ect

.........

this research mafde me thing of numorous ideas on how to creat yime in to a 3 minute video.

such as finding all the clocks in manchester and taking short 10 sec videos of each one ticking away. looking at the different shapes,sizes and colour clocks there are in manchester.

creating a human hour glass. - drawing the hour glass on the floor with chork and video from above getting about 50 people to move for form one side of the hour glass to the other like sand moving from the top to the bottom of the hour glass.

also thought about making a human sundile and mixing that with varous different ways of telling the time. taking snap images and placing them all together in a sequance.