Featured Image from the Official Website of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/the-high-line How has the Highline’s History and Renovation Changed the Area Which It Inhabits In this essay I will examine what makes The Highline in New York such a successful structure and why is attracts millions of people […]
Category: Year 1
This is the parent category of all courses taken in year 1.
Time- Final Project
https://maddyguinness.wixsite.com/time-final-project Artist Statement for the Final Project I chose to format my project as an interactive website. I tried to structure my final piece to reflect my Design and Technology major and specifically the game design path I will be following next year. As I said in my project proposal, I take a lot of […]
Glove Part One
Our brief was to structure a glove from the outside. I sketched up some initial ideas. I realoly liked the idea of suspending the glove in space using thread. Here are my three structured gloves. From here we were told we needed to scale the pieces up and make them inhabitable. This involved elaborating on […]
3D Pattern
Part One: We started by taking a series of photos of details around the city. Using these photographs we created patterns by rotating, mirroring, collaging ect. The challenge of this project was to create a 3d iterative pattern from our chosen 2D photographic pattern. To do this we needed to think about how these shapes […]
Suitcase
Part One: Firstly we made 3 rough models out of cardboard. Part Two: I then moved on to create my final piece out of wire, using tape to surface the structure. My Idea was that you would blow into the suitcase through one of the holes and inflate a red balloon that would resemble biological […]
Injection Prevention Final Proposal and Power Point
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Short Circuit Time Video
For this film we were asked to create a three-minute video that in some way distorts time or the linear progression of a narrative. I chose to present my film as a video game with a clear goal that could be lost, replayed and won. I used a fish eye Go-Pro camera to film from a […]
Clips Mash Up- Edward Scissorhands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l07iEcmJKSM I chose to use a trailer and clips from Edward Scissorhands to create three one minute mash up videos. I created each video to portray the movie trailer as belonging to three different genres: romance, horror and comedy.
Still to Moving Video- “Footprints in the Sand”
My video was based on the theme of nostalgia. I used a Christian poem called ‘Footprints in the Sand’ which is about a man looking back at the events in his life in the form of footprints. I used photographs from my trip to Palm Beach as I could capture the waves, sky and sand […]
Mental Mapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CP9zB7FdXA I chose to make a map of my walk home from school out of sounds that I hear and characterise with a specific area. The process of recording was interesting as I had to be covert in catching people’s conversations and sound effects. I also struggled to use a professional sound recorder and ended […]