Review of Rotation Stage

The first week of our rotation was spent visiting galleries and exhibitions around London based on memory. We visited the Serpentine Gallery and saw the giant structure by Sou Fujimoto. I enjoyed the visit and thought the structure was unique and created a sense of freedom and peace. I also visited the science museum as I thought this would expand my knowledge of memory and researched how the brain works and how we record information and retain memories. I found this very interesting and gathered many ideas for my own project. The memory palace exhibition at the V and A museum tells a story of a prisoner recalling memories after the worlds information infrastructure was wiped out, I liked the range of media each different artist used to represent their work and found this an interesting exhibition to visit. 

The next two weeks were focused on photography, the first week we experimented with shutter speed and aperture photographing eggs using lighting to create dramatic effects. The second week was focused on memories, I decided to photograph two objects from my own childhood memories and placed them in an usual position to create an interesting image. 

The next two weeks focused on animation the first week was spent creating a good story and the second week we produced the animation. I learnt how to create a storyboard and use after effects, to edit the animation. It was my first time doing animation and I really enjoyed it, I think our story was interesting and the animation worked well however I feel it needs a little more work to be successful. I would be very interested in taking animation up, having never done this before I enjoyed it the most out of all the courses we tried. 

I found Sound design very engaging, I learnt how to use sound track pro and master sound. We recorded all our own sounds to create our earthquake sound journey. Putting everything together and mastering the sound was the easiest part, recorded many different sounds and making it sound like an earthquake was challenging. 

I also really enjoyed Broadcasting, I learnt many techniques that I will use in the future, including using final cut pro, storytelling, shooting, controlling lighting, editing and adding sound to a film. Coming up with a good story took the longest to master, the filming and editing was the fun part!