no budget film studio

I haven't done much update on what I'm doing in school right now, so ill give you a brief summary.

I am in a group of 12 people. People that I don't really know. And I voluntarily raise my arm to become the group coordinator (I don't know why I did this). Anyways coordinating 12 people is not easy. You spend most of the time arguing. Briefing. Arguing again. I have to deal with people who are late and worse never show up. I have to make sure our group is in the right track. Human resource is important. Group work is something we all have to learn. We cannot simply live without other human beings. A life long lesson.

However things have gone great! I enjoy working late in school with the others, working in the workshop, get messy, taking in wood dust, talk about food when it comes to 5pm and learn weird russian words (the later we stay in school the weirder we all get).

So basically, our task is to turn our working studio into a film studio with no budget! We have to create platforms for the models other groups are creating. We have to create some sort of camera systems like railings and dolly. Create adjustable lightings, reflectors and the list goes on. 

...and yeeahh to us nothing goes wrong during the Christmas break. It was like when we left it on the 11st of December 2011. 

clean and collect

paint and cover

metal and wood

Assembly

The whole project is leading into a 4 minute video. Im quite excited for this video project since our group is going to film 'behind the stage scenes'. Bloopers maybe ;D

AA for Bloomsbury Festival 2011

22 October 2011

AA first years are participating in the Bloomsbury Festival.

A beautiful day in Bedford Square. Wood structures are scattered around the square filled with its own wonderful concepts. Korean marshal arts, dancing, badminton games, Thai food and coffee makes the exhibition alive. 

Photograph courtesy of Nabila Mahdi

Survey

Meanwhile.

Survey.

Is an activity to get an accurate measurement.

Surveying is boring, but necessary and essential. What I meant by survey is measuring every tiny distance, depth, length and width in a precise manner.

As a group we are given a space in our campus to survey. This process takes time and decorated by mistakes leading us to measure again. As a result I can now draw the space blind folded (hyperbole). What I meant is that I now know the space pretty well. This measurements are noted to gives us as much information to draw an orthographic drawing. 


Photograph by Hana Tindjau

Lost

The first week we were told to research on Chelsea College of art and design campus by following some stranger around the building. To be honest it was freaky; I don’t want to be a stalker.

I decided to not tell the person I follow I want to observe their moves and figuring out what are they doing in the college. 

I found this person on the lower ground floor going up the stairs to the second floor. It seems like he was looking for someone because she was standing in front of a particular door and looking around the hall. Not finding the person she was looking for, she went down to the first floor where she went into the loo. It seems to me that she was feeling uneasy and that she realize I was observing her. Weirdly she was opening small project spaces in the fine art department. She went down the stairs and went for the bridge to c block. In the end she seem to speed her steps and I lost her.

This particular project is a group project where the wires show the journey of the person we all followed and the tall stack foam-board shows the floor level.

These are some picture of the spaces she went. 

All photographs are taken by Hana Tindjau

grouppose

My induction project is about mapping. The second day we were put into groups of four and to choose a group position randomly. It was exciting and odd at the same time. The group gets me to know new people and we all had fun.

These photos represent how our poses fits into the space we are at. Four of us stand to form a square shape looking out with our eyes closed by our hands. It was interesting to sense the space around us without looking.

We also made a 3d map showing our 'stops' around the campus.