Day 2 ?!

2nd day. Although not a miserable as yesterday (speaking of the weather :D) today was a much more enjoyable experience in terms of creativity. The ideas were teaming. After a quick introduction we (me and Jessy) went to the photography studio to experiment with photos. Poses, partial photos, framing, zoom and more. I enjoyed this very much. We had a laugh and learnt a lot.

After this session we returned to the main studio for another intro this time about the art exhibition we will be seeing. An unusual and edgy display of soundless repeating short films of peculiar events from the artist’s (Haris Epaminonda) homeland of Cypress. It created a very surreal environment. Then we were given a talk through of the exhibition by the gallery curator, Jeanine Griffiths. She explained the exhibition and answered some of our questions. After the exhibition we returned to the main studio to meet Rob Speranza, a film producer, who let us watch his film - Into the woods - and gave us his experiences of creative media. We were also paid a visit from Richard Bolam, a time lapse artist who also showed us his time lapse films. Some nice ideas to think about there too.

After lunch we ventured out into the city centre armed with camcorders to try and capture our own miniature films showing the ‘passing of time’. In the winter gardens we filmed the water and the reflections from the windows. All was going 'swimmingly' until it started raining :( so we headed back. When we got back we uploaded our films so we can hopefully put them online. Wet and watery!