MAY
Notes
2 8-hour days per week
Nudity and graphic/violent images will violate the university's ethics code
Use of other people's music should be okay as long as credit is given
We are permitted to be in our own projects
Who can we work with: has to be a media comms student, otherwise someone from outside university must prove their competency with camera equipment, etc.
Find a method to use when researching - methodology; for example, experimentation through practice
Group work: each member should work to their competencies, but also work to push them; should be clear, defined roles; documentation should be specific to each group member, as well as the overall process of the group (includes group meetings)
Need health & safety forms: university registered participant consent forms needed
Ideas
Cail-o-scope machine (peep show)
Recreation of well-known/famous 'sex'/'erotic' artwork
1940's peep show model where one flicks through photos - pornography through the ages
Interview porn stars
Research topic: Why is pornography so fascinating?
Research topic: Pornography through the years
Research topic: Peep show - the move from images to cinema
Reference feminism - how we can use our bodies however we like, and that this should not even be a discussion (?)
History of pornography & the peep show itself
Interview (and photograph) porn stars, ex-porn stars, life models, nudists, in regard to their lives and their sexuality
Make own music - research into this
Set up gofundme page (crowdfunding)
Porn stars through the years - photographs of porn stars from 1940s
Time period - from the beginning of known pornography (on art, pots, etc.)
Summary of 1st & 2nd Year (Skills)
1st Year
- CPS
- DA & VC
- Creative Coding
- French
2nd Year
- Media Context
- Comms. Research
- WFTS
- Doc. Practice
Skills learnt/explored:
Communications*
Basic coding (html, java, css)
Pitching
Taking a brief and running with it & working with a client
Basic understanding of art/history of art*
Screenwriting
Producing/managing*
Interviewing*
Various ways of carrying out research*
Storyboarding*
Idea formatting/layout*
Basic photoshopping*
Photography (with a film camera)*
*skills I want to utilise in my project
SEPTEMBER
Notes
Instead of considering a specific topic, it might be worth considering a subject, e.g. home, gentrification; in collaboration with a technique, e.g. sound, moving image
Idea: happiness? Can smiling at someone/giving compliments have an effect on their happiness?
Interactive exhibit: give guests a token in order to get into my exhibit space
Pick apart an idea using a specific media strategy/methodology
The exhibit will be answering a question
Need to propose an idea and methodology in order to have project accepted
Once idea has been decided upon, visit galleries to figure out a way of exhibiting
Multi-platform is encouraged
Idea: false/fake friends/phonies? Re-read The Catcher in the Rye
First step is to research the field of study around my idea, e.g. literature
What strategies have been employed by others who have researched something similar?
Idea: exploring pregnancy?
Idea: suppression? Is it possible to fully suppress an emotion, memory, idea, period of time? Re-watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ideas
Clothes = personality
Do the clothes you wear alter your personality/attitude for the time you are wearing them? OR Are the clothes you are wearing representative of your personality/attitude/category?
Clothing = physical strong-suit
Case study: the choices stylists make when picking out costumes for TV shows (e.g. Shameless (US))
Two people can wear the same thing but look completely different - based on their attitudes, the way they walk, and their vibes
Scantily clad = invitation to be raped? Definitely not a conscious choice when people decide to not wear much clothing, but they might want to be looked at?
Do we have a choice or are we just influenced by everything that has already been made? We do not make our own clothes/styles
Case studies: Devil Wears Prada; Shameless (US); Ugly Betty
N.B. Not all suggestions were pursued, and not all tasks were carried out.
References
- Bradford's Antiques (2013) Oak 1 Cent Cail-O-Scope Peep Show Machine. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00Q3uMlT5Q (Accessed: 16 May 2017).
- Kendrick, W. (1996) The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Newman, J. (2014) 3D Peep Show Amusement Machine VR video. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRz0S_4LJg (Accessed: 16 May 2017).
- TNT Amusements Inc (2009) #10 1940's Penny Arcade Machine PEEP SHOW! Watch it work! TNT Amusements. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhy1HRvv-_E (Accessed: 16 May 2017).