- Ben Hills
- Long Days!
- had to constantly hassle for work
- 18 hour days as commercial assistant
- American connection - Mary Ellen mark, Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz
- Wanted creative input
- Became location manager
- Years of experience
- Cannot make mistakes - people only remember them!
- Get given a 'scamp' (idea/drawing/photo)
- Toyota Hybrid - glowing, suburbia - Sam Hicks
- Deli - open doors - Will Sanders
- Hills & Lights for Talk Talk at dusk
- Spent five days travelling around - Saltdean
- All commercial photography requires council permits
- Convincing land owners that we will be ok
- Shhot gherkin from high level - less boring!
Guest Lecture: Ben Hills
Guest Lecture - Laura Pannack
- Winner of World Press Photo
- D+AD
- How to approach people
- Advice from Mark Power = "Don't Stop Shooting!"
- Enjoys projects that are a challenge
- Camera is just a box!
- Style? No - just do what is natural...
Lecture Notes
- Estelle Rosenfeld
- Performing art and visual art mix (exploring the boundaries)
- Immersive theatre/promenade
- "not sure where it was going to take me"
- accumm - installation - repetition
- any medium presented by slide
- 'Take the Rose' video
- Voucher (postcard) directs them to website
- New project = 'Capture'
- Questioning themes and the form
- Photography and moving images
- Teaser is 1 min, showreel is 6 mins
- Timelapse app
Lecture Notes
- Next week Laura Pannack 3pm
- Tutorials with Rob 10-12
- Sidney Cooper 11th to 13th June = Hang.
- 6pm to 8pm on 13th = Private View
- Tear down is the eve of 21st
- Year group curator
- 20th = Karen will be doing an instant photography workshop
- Greater editorial control
- Show concept? Discuss in class
- Free Range?
- Kickstarter
Lecture Notes
- Dissertation - 'Abstract'
- Look at it from the readers perspective
- Academic discourse
- The role of the supervisor
- Marked by Karen, second marked by someone in the related field
- Third examiner - external will do three, plus all firsts and fails and borders (49/59/69)
- 1 - Looks at the title (must not be an either or, not binary oppositions)
- Run title changes by Karen
- Lure the reader in
- 2 - Scrutinises the Bibliography
- Need to be good and needs to be accurate
- True and substantial
- Build it as you go
- Look also at bibliographies in books you are reading
- Everything that has informed your writing
- Not just what you quote from
- 5-14 pages!
- 3 - Abstract
- Mandatory
- You write it last
- It is an account of what you have done
- It gives the game away first
- What you say needs to be evidenced in the 'paper'
- 200 words - not verbose -tightly written
- revelation
- compared (comparative analysis)
- names - substantiated
- 4 - Discourse (level of language)
- Vocabulary
- Syntax
- 'clarity of exposition'
- do not start 'i shall...'
- see how others do it - make it interesting
- whack it out in any speak (never submit)
- Then you craft it
- Harden up soft language
- Setup - establish
- Can add things to footnote if you don't want to break flow of text
- eg Sontag suggests
- Quotes need to have (who, year)
- use of the word 'i' in conclusion
- it could be proposed
- it could be argued
- such and such says... however it could be argued
- Remember this may not be the only valid arguement
- 28th Nov - Looking at proposals
- Make them substantial so feedback can be given
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