Wednesday 27th January 2021
Starting off from last week's session with Sara and Anneke, today we were to create work that would be put together by Sara into a published document of all the MA students from the course, this includes Photography, Illustration, Graphic Design and Animation. The task was to create two pieces of work from our practices and link to a section of Beethoven's 13th Note sheet music.
Nesteruk, S University of Huddersfield. (2021,1,27) Week 02. Brightspace - TMA1433 PP&AC. https://huddersfield.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/134133/Home
We were given the option to chose what part to use and I have chosen Part ten as i saw this looked complicated for a bar of music, bare in mind I do not know how to read sheet music and this task took a while for me to understand as we were only given an hour to come up with two new pieces of work related to this bar of music. However I made my work and I am quite happy with the outcomes I created in the time I had, I took my two strongest images from my final year undergrad and started to manipulate them whilst looking at the bar of music and saw a kind of chaotic screen before me. Below are some screen grabs of the process that I used in Photoshop to create my final images, opening an image to then change it to greyscale and then just the RGB colour and use the Colour Mixing tool to drag the colour through the greyscale image.
My documentation creating my Beethoven imagery - Sara's session (Jan 2021)
Each of the two images I decided to send to Sara for the final submission were A4 landscape images and placed into the Part Ten section of the final outcome created by Sara.
Final version created by Sara N, along with my two images that contribute.
Nesteruk, S University of Huddersfield. (2021,1,27) Digital Beethoven Finals LowRes. Brightspace - TMA1433 PP&AC. https://huddersfield.brightspace.com/d2l/le/content/134133/viewContent/930938/View
Reflecting on this Mini Symposium session with Sara over the past two weeks I have found that relating new and different ways in working to my photographic practice is a lot harder that I thought. I struggled with the concept of the task for this week and also with the understanding of how music and Beethoven can improve or relate to my image making. However, after making my images and looking back at them and then seeing the final outcome published by Sara really put into perspective of the work I have created this week. I have found a new enjoyment of experimenting with my images in Photoshop and making them into something new to view, I also find seeing other practitioners work like the graphic designers so inspiring and the way some of the students created quality work in an hour was brilliant. Exploring this new way of working has opened my eyes to what my work could become in the future and how I can use different methodologies to enhance my practice.
After Sara's workshop I had my group meeting with Anneke at 5:30pm along with Jessie Kaur and Leanne Galloway from the photography MA and friends from our Undergrad with the University. I started with the presentation of my zine that I created last week and sent to Anneke, she wanted to give us all feedback on these and understand our final projects personally. I received some great feedback from Anneke, along with some notes to research into including looking at ways in which typography could link and enhance my photographic practice. She gave me a link to research - Swiss Style Graphics. She explained to look at how my images could work with texts over the top and the way in which fonts and colours work together, this will give my practice a way in exploration and experimentation. I am in now way a graphic designer or illustrator but I like to idea of adding graphics into my project on the beauty industry and Covid-19.
Dolejs, M. Tribute Posters. Hipsthetic. https://www.hipsthetic.com/11-contemporary-projects-influenced-by-swiss-style-design/
I made a very quick example of what I feel I have learnt from the quick feedback session with Anneke by adding some text over the top of one of my images from the mornings session with Sara...
My typography experiment over my photograph using Beethoven's 13th Note title.
Looking back at this I can see that more effort and skill needs to learnt, thinking about the colour and font type to match with the image and even if this is the right image for this piece of text. This is something I want to work with and improve over the next few weeks during this TMA1433 Professional Practice Art and Communication Module.
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