BA GMD Year 2 - Authorial Photographer

Another workshop that I co-delivered recently at LCC. This project went over well with the students.

AUTHORIAL PHOTOGRAPHER (50 students)

“The camera is just the pencil we’re working with”

Stanley Donen Film Director and Choreographer
Tableau – Weegee, Stanley Kubrick, Nikki S. Lee and Cindy Sherman
Stage a photograph that tells a story in a single frame (camera/phone required). Can the photographs that you take show your personality and your passions? Can you find the correct photographic language to communicate this using the urban landscape/environment? Working in groups we’ll explore the relationship between objects, subjects and the stories they tell, intentionally or accidentally.

You will need a digital camera and the means to download the data

Tutors: Josh Trees & Karl Foster


Karl

BA GMD Year 2 - Five Frame Sequence

A lot of teaching has been going on over the last couple of months in my new role as a senior lecturer on the BA Graphic Media Design course at LCC.

I wrote a project several years back because something had been drawing me to explore narrative meaning in the abstract. I'm glad to say that I delivered Five Frame Sequence workshop to a group of 20 BA GMD students on Thursday 20 November and with a few exceptions the project was a success. I will deliver the project again next week and then publish some of the results on here.

Here's the blurb for the workshop:

FIVE FRAME SEQUENCE (25 students)

“The ‘infinite canvas’ is a challenge to think big; a series of design strategies based on treating the screen as a window rather than a page”

Scott McCloud cartoonist and theorist

We will be looking at the infinite canvas that allows the designer to control the elements needed for producing time-based outputs. Through the investigation of the works of Hitchcock, Kubrick and Campion you will combine a range of elements to create a compelling story.

You will need a notebook and a camera

Karl