Final Presentation Images

Hello and welcome again...

So after a week of handing in our final work for each assignment, today was the day of our dreaded presentations. When I arrived at uni this morning I was surprisingly calm, I think getting all my work wrapped up five days early might have played a part in this!
I was fifth in line for my presentation and with each person that went before me I could feel the nerves growing and my heart racing that little bit more...

And then it was me, eeek! Now, talking in front of people has never been a strong point of mine, even more so when my tutors are sat at the back of the studio marking me, but I was stood there, waiting for my mind to get them first words in order and process them to the mouth. Now I'm no scientist but if ever there was a case of a human being spontaneously combusting, I think I could of come close to this today!

Anyway my work, yeah so, the images I'll be using for my final hand in are the following...

As I think I may have mentioned in a previous post, I don't feel this work to be very strong and even though I haven't really enjoyed doing this assignment, I feel I've done the best I possibly could given the items I've been photographing. Having said this, in a weird way I'm looking forward to seeing what mark I get for this brief? Whether or not I'll be as enthusiastic when I actually get my grade remains to be seen but that's something I have to wait for. Until then I have a trip to see Daniel Meadows on Thursday then a nice weeks break to get rested and ready for my next assignment(s), so until we meet again, adios amigos!

Stephen Gill: Final work

Hello, wow 2012, how you doing! It's been a whole month since I last updated this blog so my apologies!

In this post I'm going to pick up where I left off at my last post and where it took me.

Yeah so, when I presented my last lot of work in uni there was a lot of discussion about where my work is at so far, and the fact that it's not representative of Stephen Gills working method. In his book 'Off Ground' Gill went out and collected bricks and rocks thrown in the recent Hackney riots, took them back to his studio and photographed them individually, from the same angle and height, using the same lighting.
From this discussion I decided to pay a visit to the Museum Of Science and Industry in Manchester because I knew they had a traffic light on display what was at the centre of the bomb blast that day. As my luck would have it, that traffic light has been on display for the past 15 years and when I went to pay a visit I was told it had been took down a week or so before!! Typical! The curator was very kind though and let me into the storage area where the light was, lay out on the floor in all its glory.

Now me being me, there on my own, started rushing and panicking, taking about 2-3 shots then went on my way, stuck them in a presentation ready for the following weeks group talk at uni. I knew the results weren't upto scratch before hand and was told so in the presentation.

So as it was lay out on the floor there wasn't much obviously I could do with it, I doubt I'd be able to move it sufficiently enough on my own, let alone be allowed by the curator. So after the next presentation I went back, with a fellow peer from uni to try get some better images, take more time and just generally not be in a panic! When we got there the curator again was very welcoming and took us back into the storage room, cue the lights and *gasp* NO TRAFFIC LIGHT! Even the curator looked bemused by how it had disappeared!
After a quick look around we found it, bolted upright to the wall, perfect! He even got me a set of ladders to get a better vantage point! So out came the camera and click went the shutter....

My next presentation will be my final one, hand in on the same day so this work will go in as my final series. The fact I can't pick this stuff up and take it to my studio will more than likely drop marks on my grade but I've done all I can do now, just have to wait out my results.

Once I've got my series fixed for definite I shall be posting it up on here...