BA2b Week 2 Interchange

Cross-Course Collaboration

This week we collaborated with Fine Art students to produce a film, this could be between five seconds and a minute long.

Working in groups, we were each given a prompt word and an image through which we should be inspired.

My group had the word "Sea" and an image of a jellyfish underwater.

I took the role of the jellyfish, and helped organise the final shoot locations.

This little project was an interesting insight into how students of fine art go about producing their work. It was also a great opportunity to mingle with people we wouldn't have known otherwise, and could possibly have opened doors for future collaborative projects.

I worked with: Menna Payne, Anjali Sudra, Iain Smith, Rosie Lord

Interchange Sessions

The Art of Failure

A lecture about how to cope with failure. This lecture focused on failure as a positive aspect of learning, without failure how can you ever learn? Everyone must fail to become better, this is the nature of human learning.

I definitely left this workshop feeling more confident in myself and my work. Feeling as though my failures were stepping stones toward better things.

Electromagnetic Sound Workshop

In this workshop we learned about the electromagnetic background noise produced by everyday objects. Using coil microphones, functioning similarly to that on an electric guitar, we searched for interesting sounds and recorded them to mix together a strange ambient sound track.

Though my team's coil mic broke after two recordings, so we continued with a contact mic. This produced some interesting results, but for me undermined what the workshop was actually about. The workshop was still very interesting and I learned some basic audio editing techniques.

I could easily produce simple music for the video game that I and my GAD team, 'Tactical Coconut', are working on; using the knowledge gained through this workshop.