the last of the research...

After my initial research into rural locations I had made the decision to focus my project on Path Of Condie to see what more I can find out to inform my stop motion video.  I visited T-Pot Studio in the tiny hamlet and had a great time finding out more about life in Path Of Condie.

This research has, as I find it often is with research, been very helpful but for a while slightly overwhelming as I was still trying to figure out how I would take my project further with all this new information.

Most of my research photos reflect an interest in music, the countryside and people.
As I had stated in my Personal Learning Plan I would like to look into peoples perception of things, which I thought would tie in nicely with how we perceive the countryside and the people in it.

I have also just recently posted a little question about the countryside for people to answer on social media sites Ello, Facebook and Twitter.  I have also set up an email account for people to respond to privately if they don't want to post anything publicly.  The response I got through Facebook was fantastic but, I think because both my Twitter and Ello pages are new, I have had far less response on those sites.

Next week I should be starting to work on experimenting with visuals for my video and maybe even a  very short mock video with a rough story board to develop.

View from outside T-Pot Studio in Path Of Condie

the kitchen curtains 

the rare old mixing desk

Robin Wynn Evans on the guitar

green and black patch leads

some multi coloured patch leads

More researching of things...

This week I've been continuing with my research into rural locations and have narrowed it down to visiting 3 places. 

 I've been able to come up with some good visual and contextual ideas for my final project and importantly been able to get started on filling up my sketchbook with the decisions I've made about what location to focus on and the direction I want to take the whole project. 

I also spent a few days at my chosen location taking research photos and recording a few videos, which were all invaluable as far as being able to develop both concept and visuals for my piece. taking ques from sounds that I recorded on videos and photos of key objects and colours. I can't wait to continue developing this project and I will post more photos of my locations and some of the objects that I found to be relevant. 

Location research photos...

Tillicoutry looking towards the ochils...note the cars

Tillicoutry with some interesting graffiti under the Ochil Hills

Lots of Alloa's old buildings/Mills are now leisure centers or shops

Some old signage lost in amongst the new ones in Alloa...funnily enough it's the name Young!

This week...

With this week being a Holliday from college I have been spending a lot of time researching, photographing and visiting some locations for my degree show brief. My first thoughts for this project was to look into small rural communities and find out what main industry, if any, drives them now. I also wanted to look at some of the perceptions we have of the countryside and how lots of the stereotypical views we hold of the quaint little country village/hamlet are based in the past. Some new paintings I have seen of such locations don't even seem to have street signs in them let alone a car! I have some photographs from a few of the locations I visited but will upload them in a separate post. 

reflective blogging...

So...

This week I have concerned myself with coming up with a plan of action.  Something that can help me organise the tasks I have to do leading up to the degree show we all have coming up.

 I am a little daunted by the prospect of having a real life degree show, but with all the time plans and reflective writing that goes along with it I'm sure I can manage to not forget anything important! Which is a comfort.

I can also still add things at any given time along the way, as i remember them or as other problems arise that I may have to correct.  So far the plan I have seems to be working but I'll know by the end of my degree show I'll know if I should do anything different or not!