MARY'S BLOG

This week, we were assigned with blog buddy by our tutor.A blog buddy simply means someone who will look at my blog once a week and write comments on my post.The blog buddy helps me improve in my post.I will also comment on my blog buddy's post so that they can improve as well. In my post i will be introducing you to my blog buddy John. John is an interesting person, all rounded-student.He is from Netherlands but currently living in United Kingdom, Leicester for his studies.Its very fortunate that he is my course mate.He particularly chose to study in De Montfort University international collage, for his IYZ.He says that Leicester city is a multi-cultured and has a lot of diversity thus choosing to study in Leicester. John's progression route is creative writing however at first he was confused between choosing to do journalism and creative writing.He went ahead and talked to a his friend who did creative writing in their studies and he felt that his heart was made for creative...

PROJECT SIGN OFF. I will be doing a photography project for this module.I will major on double exposure images.The project will include 6-8 images around the concepts of dreaming.The idea got approved by my lecturer and signed off the project before i started the project.Here is the form; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT.  Here is my project development on photography.I have used Milanote to create it where i have outlined the process of development of my major project.I will be working on double exposure images on concepts of dreaming. SMART OBJECTIVES FOR MAJOR PROJECT. Smart objectives tends to help someone achieve their goals successfully and organised.The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound. The following image explains each meaning of the word, the image also explains the does and donts when it comes to achieving SMART goals.                                   ...

PROJECT SIGN OFF I will be doing a photography project for this module.I will major on double exposure images.The project will include 6-8 images around the concepts of dreaming.The idea got approved by my lecturer and signed off the project before i started the project.Here is the form; Commentary:I finally signed my project with my tutor we discussed about my major project.What i am to do for my project.I decided to a photography project since photography is my interest.So for this particular project i am going to focus on making a series of 6-8 double exposure images around the concepts of dreaming.We also talked about the softwares that am going to use for the project like light room and photoshop.The tutor also helped to decide on photographers that would inspire me for my project that is Luke Gram, Angus McBean, Lee Miller and Surrealism.He also encouraged me to book equipments from DMU AV loans to develop my photography skills using cameras not only my mobile phone. PROJECT SCHE...

In todays class we learnt about what is Research and the  forms of Art, Design and Media research.Since my progression route is under media and communication i am going to do a Research of Media.We learnt that there are three forms of research i.e research INTO, research THROUGH and research FOR We defined Research as "the systematic investigation into, and study of, materials, and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions" CLASS EXERCISE. 1.Name something you have researched in the past for art, design or media. Recently i have done research on two photographers ;Ami Vitale and Antonia Gibotta. 2.Explain how you researched this  I started by searching for their biography using different internet sources so as to get a clear background information about the two photographers.I used two sources that i found helpful or rather they met my objectives of doing the research.I wanted to make sure that the two internet sources would help me understand their field ...

  PROGRAM:Media and Communication FIELD:Photography In my major project i would like to create a series of 6-8 images around the concept of dreaming.In my research post project i have decided to research on photographers who would inspire me through my progression route.So i have decided to look at two photographers who make this kind of images. 1. Luke Gram - he is a Canadian photographer who creates serene images by combining landscape imagery with silhouettes  2.Angus McBean- a portrait photographer and theatre set designer, best known for his photographs of actors and celebrities and his use of surrealists  themes with some of his images. RESEARCH FROM LUKE GRAM. Source: lukegram_photography This is a piece of work from Luke Gram photography studio.I did a research  of this particular image and even to an extent that i went to his social media and found he posted this image with a caption ‘Oldie but a personal favourite’ The image is old but it is still good and ...

Sunday,7 November 2020   Sequential Images :Initial research  Original master of the sequential image by unknown photographer.                           source: Greggins Jumping green water | ivotedforkodos Commentary: this a very pretty cool sequential image,the photographer captures all the action during Greggins jump from the cliff.It looks like the photographer used a camera that is able to do high shutter speed. However i think that the photo is more of photoshopped because the water was not actually that colour. MY OWN SEQUENTIAL IMAGES. After i did a research on sequential images and how to make them i decided to make several images for my digital arts project.I searched for several software which would help me create the images and finally used BeFunky.In this blog i am going to post my own images captured using my mobile phone that i used to create the sequetial images.I will explain every step with an i...

ADOBE  PHOTOSHOP. Adobe photoshop is a critical tool for designer, web developers, photographers and creative professionals.Widely used for photo editing creative image composition and adding effects. source: google images ADVANTAGES OF USING PHOTOSHOP. 1.Customisation of images for social media. 2.Ease of editing different image formats. DISADVANTAGES OF USING PHOTOSHOP. 1.Raw updates versions are sometimes released. 2.The program consume a lot of space. BEFUNKY PHOTO EDITING. It is a very powerful software ,yet easy to use photo editor ,collage maker and video editing.You can use the app to make the sequantial images.The collage feature is good and simple to use. BeFunky helps you save your project. Source: BeFunky helps Save your work ADVANTAGES OF USING BEFUNKY PHOTO EDITING. 1.Availability of great collection of features and editing tools. 2.A number of fun features have been included. DISADVANTAGES OF USING BEFUNKY PHOTO EDITING. 1.Erasor tool not included. 2.A number of list...