Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Client proposal form

Creative and Media Diploma
Client Proposal Form

Summary of client needs for project

What does the client require your product to do? Who is the target audience for the product?

-The target audience for my product is large companies and my product is required to promote the need of scrap donations from large companies of their waste to the scrap store.

-Idea for product

The idea for my product is to make a film using children from a school or people from my group and film them creating things with scrap. My film will promote the use of scrap and how children can be creative with it.

-Outline the final idea for your project

My final idea is to create a film using three people from my group and show them building with scrap. I will scroll messages across the screen to attract attention from my target audience and use the slogan: We Need Your Scrap.

-How will you ensure that your product is suitable for it’s purpose?

I will ensure that my product is suitable for its purpose by having regular meetings with my client and discussing their needs and ensuring I meet the brief.

-Resources required

• Students
• Scrap materials
• Filming equipment
• Sound equipment
• Lighting equipment
• Final cut pro

-What will you need to create your product? Include resources, locations, models etc.

• Students
• Scrap materials
• Filming equipment
• Lighting equipment
• Mac computer
• Final cut pro
• Planning booklet
• A room in the college
• Story board

-Potential difficulties with execution of product

One of the difficulties I may come across is the availability of the students I want to film i.e. if they will be available at that time. Another is the time I have to film, will I have long enough.

-What could go wrong when you are producing your work? What steps will you take to try and avoid these?

One of the things that could go wrong is there may be mistakes in filming so I may take a long time to avoid this I will make a plan and storyboard and go over it with people so that they know what they have to do.

-Health and Safety issues to consider

• Ensure wires aren’t in they way when filming so there are no trips or falls
• Transport for the scrap is big enough to ensure no accidents
• If I work out of college I need to be aware of he public and safety issues such as traffic.

-What health and safety issues will be relevant during the project? How will you address these?

I think all of the ones above that I have written about are relevant.


-Anything else that you need to address

I need to ensure I wok within the time limit and don’t fall behind. I also need to ensure that I follow the brief of my client.

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Lauren Wilcock-Scrapstore Film

Overview of similarities and differences between researched practitioner’s work and mine.

For my project in interaction I made a short film to advertise to large waste companies that the Bristol Children’s scrap store needs more scrap donations. I chose to work with the scrap store because they make good use of re-use before recycling recyclable materials. All kinds of people use scrap from the scrap store such as, teachers, club leaders and art groups. The scrap store also has a play pod scheme where they bring pods to schools filled with scrap and let the children be as creative as they like with it.

I have chosen these six artists because their work is very similar to mine in the way that the materials are used. Christo and Jeanne Claude’s works are always temporary and they always re-use the materials used by giving them to the people involved i.e. the running fence where all of the materials were given to the farmers whose land they used. This is one similarity as my work wasn’t permanent and all of the materials were reused in other ways afterward. My work was also similar to Tim Noble & Sue Webster’s as they work with found objects off of the streets and from around the house and some of the objects I used were found around the house and in random places.

One difference is one of the artists Tony Cragg uses found and household objects as his inspiration and for some of the materials; they are also permanent pieces of work. His works are also interactive i.e. the inflatable lipstick where participants had to inflate the sculpture.

All of the artists have similarities to my work in their own ways, which is why I chose them, I couldn’t however find many differences other than what the artists do with the materials after and the messages they are trying to portray i.e. Oldenburg was trying to make people think about the insignificant tiny household items that people never really think about and also wants to make people think about what they are throwing away.

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Practitioner research bibliography

Practitioner research Bibliography

-5x5x5 Creativity- http://www.5x5x5creativity.org.uk/

-Claes Oldenburg- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_121.html

-Anthony Cragg- http://www.tony-cragg.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cragg

-Christo & Jeanne claude- http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/

-J.R Streert artist- http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/07/street-art-jr-photography

-Tim Noble & Sue Webster- http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/noble_webster.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Noble_and_Sue_Webster

Practitioner research: Anthony Cragg


Anthony Cragg

Tony Cragg is a sculptor, many of his early works are made with found household and construction materials. He started his work in the UK where he studied art at on the foundation course at the Gloucestershire College of art and design, then at the Wimbledon school of art. He was taught by Roger Ackling who introduced him to the sculptors Richard Long and Bill Woodrow. After this he completed his studies at Royal College of art where he was a contemporary of Richard Wentworth.

After completing his studies he moved out of Britain to Wuppertal in Germany where he is currently living and working. Cragg also has a studio on the island of Tjorrn off the west coast of Sweden. During the 1970s he made sculptures using simple techniques such as stacking, splitting, and crushing. In 1978 he collected discarded plastic fragments and arranged them into colour categories. The first work of this kind was called 'New Stones-Newton’s Tones'. Shortly after this he made works on the floor and wall reliefs, which formed images. One of these works, Britain Seen From the North (1981), features the shape of the island of Great Britain on the wall, oriented so that north is to the left. To the left of the island is the figure of a man, apparently Cragg himself, looking at the country from the position of an outsider. The whole piece is made from broken pieces of found rubbish and is often interpreted as commenting on the economic difficulties Britain was going through at that time, which had a particular effect on the north.

I chose to write about Tony Cragg because he works with found objects and recyclable materials that have no use anymore to produce amazing sculptures and wall pieces. I chose him because these are the similarities between his work and the work I’m doing as I’m working with recycled scrap to produce art and also found objects.

Practitioner research: JR Street artist


JR Street Artist

JR is a French urban contemporary artist who exhibits his work on the streets all over the world, he names the streets as “The largest art gallery in the world” His art is all about combining art and action and he includes the sense of freedom, identity and limits in all of his pieces.

After acquiring a camera he travelled around Europe researching people who displayed heir works of art on walls, he researched the limits of walls and rooftops around the worlds cities and after listening to the artists messages of their work he pasted their portraits on the walls, basements and rooftops of Paris.
Between 2004 and 2006, JR created Portraits of a Generation, portraits of young people from the housing projects around Paris that he exhibited in huge format. This illegal project became official when the City of Paris put JR’s photos up on buildings. Right at the beginning of his projects, JR wanted to bring art into the street.
“In the street, we reach people who never go to museums.”

One of his works that particularly interested me is called Face2Face. This project was all about showing that Palestine's and Israelis are enough alike to be able understand each other. JR photographed Israeli and Palestinian men and women who have the same jobs showing many different emotions to show that they are all human and the same, that there is no difference. The portraits created were pasted up face to face on either side of the Separation Wall and in several surrounding towns.
The project’s goal was to show through images that art and laughter combined can break down prejudice.

Like Banksy JR is an artist of whom nobody knows his identity, all of his work on the streets is illegal , but he likes to think that there is no limit to what you can achieve through art and the ways in which you do it. I like JR because his work shows great humanitarianism and awakens less serious sides of serious issues for example face2face which opened peoples eyes to how alike people are no matter which race they are or where they originate from.
I think JR is relevant to my work as his works opens peoples eyes to big issues such as poverty and discrimination and my work is focused on the use of recycling and re-use which people need to be more aware of