Week 2

Unfortunately most of this week was taken up with work at City College and waiting to get my new laptop etc delivered. I wasted a whole day on Wednesday waiting for a delivery that eventually arrived at 8.30pm! Fortunately I was able to reschedule my installation and tuition for Friday so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

We had a surprise critique on Thursday that was helpful. I presented my work last and we were running out of time so I didn’t get much feedback but I did get the chance to put some of my ideas past people. After the crit I have decided to limit the sounds used on my masters project to human voice sounds, possibly speech as opposed to other mouth sounds. I feel that this sits better with the psychoanalysis theory as it pertains to people/humans.

So far I have made a few decisions that mostly relate to the masters project as a whole rather than just this self-negotiated unit.

I have decided to apply the following structure:

• The triptych will be based on Persona/Animus/Shadow with a view to the whole project representing The Self.
• The sound will be produced using voice.
• The animation will appear organic in some way.

There are other things that I haven’t made a decision about.

• Colour, am I going to use colour as a tool?
• How abstract should this be?
• What order to do things in?

I think that maybe my brief for this unit should have been less restrictive. I shouldn’t have reigned myself in to producing a set amount of animations/sound clips I should have just given myself freedom in order to hone down my ideas. Its like I need the space to expand before I can work on being concise.

Friday. Today I met with the software trainer and went over the new hardware/software that was provided through the DSA. The software that we looked at uses mind maps as a basis to devise essay structures. I have started to make a mind map of my masters project which is divided into the self negotiated units so that I can see what needs to happen where. It was relatively quick and simple to create a complex mind map with quite a lot of detail on it. I also learned how to organise my citations in MS Word.