Talk by Simon Roberts 19th October 2011
Authorship.
Author not illustrator.
Motherland 5000 photos.
My own visual language.
Looking at leisure time.
What hasn't been photographed?
Interrogation of the landscape.
Aesthetic, found framing style.
Value of the environment.
Overt statement in photography.
Three months planning.
Democratising the commission and citizen journalism.
Photos and text.
Ask people to send photos.
No curating or editing.
Photographic wall.
Cover of book needs model release.
The Role of the Roadtrip.
Creative Plus 18th October 2011
Graduate Show Summer 2012.
Free Range?
Dates?
Sidney Cooper 14th June to 21st June 2012.
Question: "What do you do?"
Brand/Values, must create a package.
Prepared cover letter, statement about me, why I would be good for your gallery.
Teacher Training?
NESTA.
Values and placing their importance.
Mixed Media 17th October 2011
Must book tutorials early and come with 'stuff'
Plagiarism in terms of mixed media has two areas of concern
Written must be sourced
Practical needs to impose your signature (authorship)
Authorship is the opposite of plagiarism!
An early prototype needs to accompany the proposal
Intervention/take back to source
Ambitious Project
The mixing can be a theoretical paper and a portfolio
Inter-connections between modules are allowed
We looked at Karen's Project, elastic band, resin ball, huge print
Christian Marclay, music playing cards, snapshot aesthetic, beautifully produced
Development discussion on 7th November
Dissertations 10th October 2011
Round table talk about our ideas.
Conference in February re Family Album propaganda.
Ideas?
Photographer as filmmaker.
Facebook and family album propaganda.
The role of the road trip in photographic projects.
SdC.
Develop Ideas on 31st October.
Plagiarism is passing work off as your own.
Must source all your quotes.
Biblio and notes need to be in good shape.
If you can't source it you can't use it.
'as Barthes argues' or 'Sontag suggests'.
1200 words.
Tutorials.
Procrastination.
Being boring and disciplined helps.
Fear?
Perfectionism?
Poor time management?
Laziness?
Writers block? Don't try and write in a polished way, write then polish later!
Proposals.
Avoid chronological, too broad, a zillion books do this.
Similar in the way you pitch your practical ideas.
Convince the tutor it's doable and worthwhile.
Hundreds of hours.
Acknowledge the work ou are undertaking.
Break project down into tasks.
Give progress update to yourself.
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