May
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21

Ieva’s surrealist photography game involved creating images that expressed particular adjectives. Ieva shouted out the words - “strong”, “green”, “hard” etc. - and the photographers had to quickly make a photograph that corresponded with the word. Here are some examples. Can you guess the corresponding adjectives?

Nalo’s surrealist photography game involved two people (one in the role of photographer, the other the guide) creating chance images. The photographer shut his or her eyes and was guided around the room. When s/he said stop a sightless image was taken. This process was repeated four or five times and the  the roles were reversed. here are some of the images made. No-one was hurt in the making of these photographs!

This week’s homework was to invent a surrealist photography game. Sammy adapted the exquisite corpse game using the Andigraf app on the iPods. Each person took one photo in a sequence of four using one of the multi lens cameras in the app. The final images were therefore a chance association of images. Here are some of the most effective examples.

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Interesting Things We’ve Learned About Surrealism (so far)

  • The Surrealists were interested in chance.
  • The Surrealists were fascinated by dreams and the unconscious mind - they consulted dream dictionaries which had become popular in the early decades of the 20th century. This was related to Freud’s research about the language of dreams.
  • Surrealism isn’t a style of art, it’s a way of life.
  • “Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.” André Breton.
  • Surrealism began as a literary phenomenon.
  • Surrealism originated from Dadaism whose were artists disgusted by the culture that brought about WW1.

Today 12B began thinking about Surrealism. We played two versions of the Exquisite Corpse game, one with drawing the other making poems. We thought about the way the Surrealists attempted to challenge and often overturn the accepted conventions of art making. For example, is all art made by a single person? Is art made consciously?


The students have been set the task of creating a Beginner’s Guide to Surrealism. Their understanding of Surrealism can be expressed in any form - a gallery guide, a fanzine, a book of instructions, a poster, a film, a graphic novel etc.

Their first task is to design a Surrealist photography game which we will play together in next week’s lesson.

May
07

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05

mrnphotoblog:

I’m a bit late to this party but since we are exploring stop motion and time lapse photography I thought I would share tis incredible project. The above video demonstrates a new technique (for me at least) the ‘hyperlapse”. Using images from Google Street View, a team of web developers have created this incredible time lapse film exploring some of the more beautiful corners of the globe where the Google cars have been.

Want to create your very own hyperlapse? No problem! Simply visit this site, enter your journey from A to B and click create. It couldn’t be simpler. Prepare to be amazed!

Tallis hyperlapse

Here’s one I made up and down Kidbrooke Park Road.

Reblogged from mrnphotoblog

May
02

This is Courtenay’s first draft of a short film in response to the theme of ‘Movement’ for her Year 13 Externally Set Task. I’m looking forward to what refinements she is able to make tomorrow as she continues to edit this footage and, possibly, create more. Such a cool idea!

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