Exposure
Exhibition Layout
Exhibition- Individual Work, Exposure, Year 2For the Emergence exhibition in Nucleus Arts, I will be displaying my story telling moving image piece. I will displaying my moving image piece on a monitor, alongside my zine that talks about my moving image work in detail. Both my Monitor and my zine will be placed on a white plinth, the monitor placed on top of the plinth and my zine placed on a shelf that has been drilled into the plinth.
My work is going to displayed on the far back wall of the room. In this part of the room I have access to plug sockets, so I am able to play my moving image piece without having wires all over the exhibit. It was important that everyone showing moving image pieces had access to plug sockets, otherwise the wires would become a health and safety hazard. I had a total of 47 inches to exhibit my final piece. This ended up being plenty of room as my piece is not connected to the wall.
I am happy with the placement and amount of space I received in the exhibition. The exhibition design team have done a good job in placing everyone in the exhibition, they have ensured that everyone has an equal amount of space, and they have catered to everyone’s exhibition needs.
Ideal Way to Exhibit
Exhibition- Individual Work, Exposure, Year 2For the Exposure unit I am planning on exhibiting my storytelling final piece. The piece is a short documentary about professional dressage rider Chelsea Tolhurst. In an ideal situation were space and money were not an option, I would like my moving image piece to be shown in a cinema style. The viewers would be directed into a separate room within the gallery. This room would have seating pointing towards a screen were the film would be projected. The room would be dark and have no other light source except from the projection on the screen. The moving image piece would play on a loop so that people were able to come to watch the piece at all times.
The space would have no more than twenty seats, I want the film to have an intimate and personal feel. I think that more than twenty people in the space at one time would be a distraction to the piece. On the way out of the exhibit there would be room containing a number of zines talking in more detail about the subject and myself the photographer. These zines would be free for the public to take. My artist statement would also be amongst the zines. Having this set up in a gallery would be an effective use of the space, it would showcase my work and allow views to really connect with the piece.
Exposure Review
Exposure, Reflective Review, Year 2Group Work
Overall this exposure unit has been a good opportunity to work within a group. I enjoyed partaking in group meetings and discussing peoples ideas in terms of the exhibition. I feel it was a possitive experience to work with my peers to create an exhibition. Even though the exhibition did not go ahead, I feel that it would have been a successful exhibition. As a team I though we worked well, each of us put in a lot of hard work to ensure that the exhibition wouldn’t have been a success. We arranged weekly group meetings to discuss ideas as well as frequent zoom meetings to insure we were all on track with group tasks. overall working in a group has been a positive experience, working in groups is an important thing when working in a creative industry. Collaborations are undoubtedly something that I will use in the future, so this unit was a great opportunity to practice working with other creatives.
Exhibition
Even though the exhibition at Nucleus Arts did not go ahead I am confident that it would have been a success. My personal layout for the exhibition consisted of a monitor, a plinth and a shelf attached to the plinth. This particular layout would not have taken up much room in the exhibition, I wanted my layout to be clean and minimalistic so my piece of moving image work would be central focus of my exhibit. It was important to me that my work was exhibited in a clean and uncluttered way, allowing the viewer to have an undisturbed view of work. The overall layout of exhibition in my opinion would have been a really effective use of the space. Even though the space at Nucleus Arts was small I believe to use of banners would have split up the space really nicely.
Major Project Proposal
I am really looking forward to starting my major project. My current idea (using music as portrait inspiration) is a really exciting idea to me. This idea makes the most sense to me currently, the project is something that has taken a lot of thought to come up with and is something that really interests me as a creative. Even if I don’t use this idea for my final major project it is definitely a project I will take part in outside of uni.
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Exposure, Group Work, Year 2Exhibition Plan
Exhibition- Individual Work, Exposure, Year 2I am planing to show my story telling piece for the medway photo festival. My work will be shown in the Nucleus Arts Gallery, the gallery is situated just off Chatham high street. Nucleus had a professional gallery space feel, so is a perfect place to display my work. The space will be divided up between 22 people. That gives each person roughly 54inches of wall space. My piece consists a moving image piece and an zine. I want to show this particular piece of work because its a reflection of all the work I’ve produced this academic year. I want to exhibit my work using a plinth, on top of the I plan to use a monitor which will play my video on a loop during the exhibition. My final piece also includes a zine. I want to display the zine next to my moving image piece so people in the gallery are able to make a clear connection between the zine and the moving image work.
I want to present my zine along side the monitor so I am planning to buy a simple clear plastic shelf that will be attached to the plinth using screws or super glue. This clear shelf will be a good way to present both pieces of my work together. My exhibition set up is relatively simple to execute. The only element of gallery resources I would need to use is a plug socket, the rest can be provided by the university.
Set Design Workshop
Exposure, Story Telling, Story Telling Research, Year 2Today I took part in a set design workshop, the workshop included an induction into using the machines in the wood shop room. The first half of the workshop was a run through of all the health and safety precautions that needed to be followed while using the machines. I was shown how to use a range of machines such as, belt sanders, hacksaws and a range of drills. The induction highlighted all the safety wear that must be worn by using the machines, the safety equipment included; gloves, protective eyewear, dust masks and full body suits for welding. After being shown how to use the equipment in the correct way, I went on to make my own frame to be used for an exhibition. Making my own props for the exhibition would be and cheap and efficient way to create the outcome I desired for the exhibition.
The first step to making a frame, is the cut the piece of wood at a 45 degree angle on one side. Once I had cut my wood to the correct measurement I then used a clamp to connect the two parts of wood together. After clamping the wood together I proceeded to drill two alternate holes in each, this is where the pieces of wood would be connected. After drilling the holes I then placed a screw in each of the holes, with a drill I secured the screws within the wood. After doing this I could then remove the clamp. The last stage was to add a piece of ply wood to the corner for extra support. This was attached using a staple gun.
Overall I enjoyed this set design workshop, I now feel confident to use the machines in the wood shop room to create a frame or a plinth for the upcoming exhibition. Making my own accompaniments for any exhibition is a good future skill to have and also saves a considerable amount of money.
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