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Erin Spavins


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 22, 20222 min read
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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 18, 20222 min read
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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, 20221 min read
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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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Nov 17, 20222 min read
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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
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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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Nov 17, 20221 min read
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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, 20223 min read
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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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Nov 17, 20221 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 17, 20221 min read
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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
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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 10, 20221 min read
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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 9, 20221 min read
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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, 20221 min read
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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, 20222 min read
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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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Nov 5, 20221 min read
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