This Tuesday, we had a presentation from our excellent lecturer Rebecca Ann Hobbs. She is a photographer and film maker. She believes ‘art should fit into your world, not you fit into the art world’ which I think it is very true too. For the interest of photography, she likes to capture the frozen moment from a movement. On the other hand, she also love making moving images because she loves the feeling of making things from nothing and it is more playful.
Different people have their own way to approach their development of ideas. My approach would be looking at artist models and the contemporary art works. My past four years in high school, looking at artist models has became a habit for me to research and develope concepts and ideas. Because finding the artist models was part of our assignment and we also talk about it during the class. For me, to develope my work via artist models is pretty helpful in my practice.
In Rebecca’s presentation, she had underlined the word ‘research’. This word took a big part in every of her project. Before that, she needs a starting point which is the hardest thing to do, as she said. I think this is very true because every time I start a new project in my practice, I always have many ideas flowing around my head which I don’t know how and where do start. So I will note down my ideas and start researching. In my moving image practice, I made a music video. Since I have the commitment to this idea, I looked at many different kind of moving images which were related to my idea(music video) such as music video websites, music drama or even some funny video etc. What is the role of research? Well, for me, I like to do the research through the internet,magazines and libraries but I prefer internet the most and magazine goes to second because it is faster and easy to find things which is similar to my ideas or the contextual history of my ideas. As I mentioned before, I will research for things what is similar or related to my ideas. Since I’v got all those information, I will start analyse them-what/why do I like or dislike them and start experimenting to see what works and what doesn’t.
Sometimes I make work of what influenced me in my daily life and also by other people’s work. Sometimes I will have an idea behind my work but sometimes it comes after the finished work. I think this is called the intuition.
In my studio practice, most of my work are about nature, femininity and fashion. So in the moving images brief, I decided to make a music video about femininity and nature. I wanted to show off the beauty of the woman and nature.
Where do I find the ‘X factor’ if you ask, I would say it comes from experiment and the process of making. When doing my research for the music video, firstly I adverted to the story they wanted to tell and secondly I looked at the visual effects they had used. But when I actually making this video, I started to realise it is different from what I thought. Many things I haven’t thought about such as the lighting, camera angles and movements and also need to consider the places to shoot and the weather. So the experimentation after the research and evaluation is very important . I think these elements are very influential for my project which is also the ‘X factor’.
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