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During todays lesson we all chose a selection of images that we felt worked together to match a theme. As a class we then chose an order to put our photos together in and stuck them on the wall in a line. I then helped to film the line of photos, on the left is the video of that, it was quite crudely filmed with just a tripod taped to a set of castor wheels which was then pushed by hand against the skirting board of the wall, because of this the speed is not constant but I however like the fact that it is not perfect as it adds more character to the piece.
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Above is a short 5 second slideshow video that I put together using the iMovie iPhone app. I first of all edited all images to make the colours more vibrant, I then cropped and rotated them. Next I imported them into the app and set each image to be viewed for 0.5 seconds.
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For this experiment I used the school's Telephoto Lense. I was eager to try it out as I had never used one before and was interested in what it could do. After walking around for only a few minutes I soon realised the lense worked best for taking long shots especially of birds and wildlife. At Thomas Tallis there are always flocks of seagulls nesting on the school roofs which provided the perfect subject for me to photograph. I had to shoot all my images using only manual focus as the auto-focus took too long and I had missed the shot by the time the shutter went off. Using manual focus on a handheld camera with a massive lense while photographing moving objects proved very tricky and I was pleasantly surprised to find most of the shots were in focus. The photos above are the raw un-edited files and the image on the left is one that I edited in Adobe Photoshop to increase the contrast, texture, hue and lines. I really like the way this photograph turned out, the black silhouette of the pigeon takes centre frame and the outline of the grubby concrete bench helps to emphasise this by the pigeon
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Today we investigated performance photography, in particularly Paul Harrison and John Wood, who are two Bristol based artists that make surreal performance videos, prints, drawings and sculptures. Their short videos are of a very simple, geometric design, always using a white background and minimal objects. The duo are always dressed in the same plain, black clothes and have similar short haircuts which helps take the focus away from what they look like and more on what they are doing. After watching their videos I have decided they are quite inventive with their actions as they use only such as chairs and tables to make interesting videos that have a comedic value to them. I particularly enjoyed watching them sitting on office chairs in the back of a moving van. Overall I liked Harrison and Wood for the way they present their performances and the simplicity of them. I found all of their videos quite humorous and I think this is a key part of creating a successful performance art video.
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