Fujifilm Student Award 2012---- Extreme.

For the next six weeks i have been asked to enter the Fuji film Student Awards. Where we will work with a film camera to produce a series of images with the theme of 'Extreme', we can photograph whatever we want to as long as it links with the main theme. Each year the brief is different last year (2011) the brief was based on the 5 senses, and the year before that (2010) the brief was to design a book cover for a penguin classic called 'At Swim-Two- Birds'.

Previous winners.

Throughout the time that this competition has been running there have been many winners of the different briefs. Each year there is one main winner and around 30 merit winners.
2011's main winner. (clélia Maumene, from Newcastle College, 'Hello Darkness my old friend')

and here are some of the merit winners,

 (Becky Smith, 'an eye for an eye will make the world blind')

(Kelly Anne Tilson, 'braille')

(Linda Blann, 'scream')

2010 Winner. (Anne Marie Atkinson, from Leeds College of Art)

2010 Merit Winners.

 (Amyfern Nuttall, from Edinburgh College of Art.)

 (Gary Chaytor, from Newcastle College)

 (Mark Robinson, from University of Lincoln.)

Fuji film types.

There are many different types of Fuji film to chose from in order to carry out this task, each giving a different textures or styles (e.g. black and white, colour). When choosing your film you must first decide the types of images that you want to take and whether or not they may need a certain film.  you also have to take into account the ISO you intend to use as some films are made to a set ISO and so could be the best one for that set of images.

Definition of extreme.

Word Association. 

EXTREME.

Sport,

Weather,

Heat, 

Wealth, 

Poverty,

Make up,

Cold,

Living,

Heights,

Style,
Emotions,
Homes.

christmas card. December 2011.

We were asked to go out and take photographs to make a christmas card with, as there was not any snow yet and there was not much of a christmassy feeling. So i went out looking for different things that i could take a photograph of and i found the christmas tree in the lobby of the college, i decided to take on obscure photo of the tree among other pictures i took, i would then edit my final chosen image when i got back into the class room and put it onto a card template. Below is my final edited image.

Amelia Beavis-Harrison. Talk.

Amelia Beavis-Harrison came in to talk to us about her work. She is an artist and curator based in Nottingham, alongside her freelance work she also started up and runs the Lincoln Art Programme which is a live art commissioning body. Her work is created based on histories, mythologies, situations, conversations and the production of art. During 2010/11 she set herself a project based on challenges, she set up a facebook group and asked the public to challenge her, she would then pick a challenge and complete one a month for 12 months. throughout the duration of this project the challenge choice changed from picking the most challenging each month to choosing a challenge that would fit the artistic ideas she had in mind.

March challenge.

To list and act appropriately towards all the people to whom you owe apologies.

Challenged by Tom Duggan.

June challenge.

Test your physical and mental agility to the limit by appearing on a television quiz show or game show.

Challenged by Anneka French 

December challenge.

'Celebrate new year's eve as if it would be already Friday, December 31st of the year 9999. Invite people living already in the future.'

Challenged by Julian Klein

Above are a few of the images she took to prove she completed the challenges that were set for her.

to view more of her work see the link below.
www.ameliabeavisharrison.com

Erik Knudsen talk review.

Erik Knudsen is a photographer/film director, born in Ghana to a Danish father and a Ghanian mother.

He came in to give us a talk about his work and how it might link to our current work, i think his work is very inspirational especially in the way he has used know words in a couple of the mini films as the everyday noises of what was going on around him were more powerful than any script could portray.
His work would have linked really well with the first assignment that we were given which was mixed heritage, however we were doing the second assignment at the time. He tries to show that poverty is not just limited to the poor, but can be found in many different places for example the lack of equipment to use on photo shoots that could be seen as a type of poverty.

He has created films called, 'Vainilla Chip', 'The Silent Accomplice', 'Heart of Gold', and 'One Day Tafo'.
His films incorporate the sounds of the environment and are rarely scripted, this is because the films tend to have more of an impact on the viewer without throwing meaningless words over the top. the film 'One Day Tafo' incorporates video footage shot by his father in the 50's. The film goes beyond the anthropological and socio-political issues that are shown in most films about Africa.
For more information and the videos click the link below.
www.onedayfilms.com/page/erik-knudsen

Jill Cole photographer, photo canopy.

Wednesday 18th January 2012,
Jill Cole came in to talk about her work over the past year within The National Forest.  She lives and works in North Yorkshire, when we first met Jill Cole her work revolved around humanely catching birds so that she could photograph them. She became involved with the photo canopy project when she was approached   by Chris Beech and asked to be the artist in residence, she says this project has helped to develop coherence in her work. she showed us a set of ten images to help us get a feel for what her work looks like.
Below are a selection of the images she has currently uploaded to her website from previous projects.

write and fold task. Photo montage.

For this task we were asked to create a photograph that involves a certain amount of different words.
We were asked to get these words by doing something similar to the consequences game where one person wrote a word then folded the paper and somebody else wrote the next word and so on and so forth.

We had to incorporate five different things and they were.
1. Write down the name of a colour
2. Write down the name of an object
3. Write down a random word
4. Write down a line of your favourite lyrics.
5. Write down a number.

the answers i got were,
1. Pink,
2, Roundabout,
3. Chilli,
4. 'Amazing just the way you are' from Bruno Mars' song amazing.
5. my number is 7.

It took me a while to try and work out how i was going to take this photograph, and i puzzled and puzzled for ages before a came up with the image i have now.

its not very good but with the time i had its the best i could do and as i was not sure how i was going to do it i literally just threw this image together.

Still life photography - food.

Still life photography is photography that is of inanimate objects, for example food, teddy bears anything that is not alive and breathing.

My image.