Research for Newstead Abbey Live project: Visiting Blenheim Palace 'Alice in Wonderland Christmas'
Last Christmas, my family and I visited a Christmas Alice in Wonderland exhibition at Blenheim Palace. I have used images taken from last...
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Nov 18, 20222 min read
Critical thinking: Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
This weeks activity from Contextual Studies: Read a Guardian long read and critically evaluate your chosen source Chosen article: Rain is...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Newstead Abbey Live Project: SketchUp drawing
As a group we have decided to create a SketchUp design drawing to help visualise what the room will look like. I used the online free...
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Nov 17, 20222 min read
Newstead Abbey Live Project: plan drawings
Similar to the further research into how a workshop may look following the group tutorial discussion with Kerry, Emma-Louise and I...
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Newstead Abbey Live Project: More research into Workshops
Following our groups personal reflection with Kerry, after hearing feedback, I have decided to carry out more research on what a workshop...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Composing sets and taking images
My next step and participation in our group project, working with Laini, we began to create and dress areas in Waverley Studio to make it...
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Newstead Live Project: sourcing and making props
Once we had finished the design stage of the Newstead Live Project, we moved onto the creating and sourcing stage. We split our group...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Newstead Live Project: Action Plan and Timeline
Our created action plan involves me drawing the visuals for the group along with some model making and prop buying as these are some of...
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Newstead Abbey Live Project: PowerPoint brief
After presenting the brief, I thought that our presentation went very well and that we equally shared our project proposal and new...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Newstead Live Project: Concept Art and initial sketches
After our meeting with Helen Davies, over the weekend each member of our group went on to create a concept style drawing surrounding the...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Newstead Live Project: Mood boards
The ideas and installation concept I decided to research further and create a mood board on was when 'Alice ate the Eat Me biscuit and...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Newstead Live Project: Initial research
For our 2nd project on the course so far, we have been asked to work in collaboration with other students for the Newstead Abbey Live...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Mixed materials: working with plastics
During this mixed materials session, we were each given a sheet of plastazote each which we had to stencil different shapes with...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
Learning new SketchUp features
During this Sketchup session, we began to look at the follow me tool- a tool for complex modelling which can make a shape follow along a...
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Nov 10, 20221 min read
Viewing: A date with Destino
After watching the stunning Destino film inspired and influenced through Dali's surrealistic paintings, I went onto watch Dali and Disney...
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Nov 10, 20221 min read
Viewing: Metropolis
Context behind the film: 1927 sound came into film Robot- never before thought of mechanical person man out of the earth to protect the...
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Nov 9, 20221 min read
Viewing: Destino
Today we viewed Disney's Destino- Disney's take on surrealism. I really enjoyed watching this short film and how different elements of...
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Nov 5, 20221 min read
Collab 1- First Session
During our first session, we carried out interactive tasks in groups that included students from a range of courses to get to know one...
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Nov 5, 20222 min read
Viewing: Big Eyes
Was this film based on fact or fiction? While watching the film Big Eyes, I was asked to carry out a fact check alongside watching the...
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Nov 5, 20221 min read
Viewing: Alice in Wonderland Tim Burton
After viewing Newstead Abbey, the setting and location of dark rooms and intricate pieces of furniture, it reminded me of the Tim Burton...
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