Lecture by Rose Butler

Rose Butler came in to Leeds Collage of Art to show us her a range of body of work that she has produced. One particular body of work took my interest called "Platform" which involved an animation of around 3 and a half minutes of people at Blackfriars Station on the London Underground. The animation involves commuters rushing between trains and is split up between 3 frames that are synchronized together. The tempo of the animation naturally changes depending on the movement speed of the subjects creating a feel of rush and urgency involving the viewer into the work and gives a sense of the buzz of the the London Underground. The work was created by using tracking and stabilizing software and the frame is manipulated to become the main subject of the animation. The black moving frames create the concept of a train in motion passing across the camera showing just glimpses of the movement of the characters. Butler has a unique way of working and although produces a lot of film and animation see's herself as a photographer which is what gives her the style of her work. Working backwards like Butler is in my opinion a much better way to work. By working backwards I mean that you go out looking for inspiration and just begin recording or taking photographs of something that interests you and then begin to research after words. This was the work is more likely to be original instead of influenced by somebody else's work.

Fashion Brief

Editorial photography is mostly used in magazines and includes images that are not ads. A editorial photographer is given a story by a newspaper or magazine and is required to respond with a visual response linked to the theme of the magazine. We were divided into teams by our tutor and required to produce a series of images from a specific well known brand for a popular editorial magazine across 8 pages. The magazine and brand was picked at random from a hat which means that they might not link together.

As a requirement for the brief we had to compose two long shots, one close up and two mid shots with the rest being our own choice. We were also required to use flash photography on location.

My team picked Vivienne Westwood and Elle magazine as our brands and editorial which do not really suit each other so, we had to really think about the type of clothes the models will wear, the location and the lighting styles.

As a team we decided to use the theme of nature and the environment linked to the Vivienne Westwood clothes line and decided to use some woods close by as the location for our shoot. We decided to tone the style down of Vivienne Westwood's styles in order to be suitable for our editorial Elle magazine. I believe the shoot went well and we successfully met the requirements of the brief.

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