Project Brief 2 (15%)
From there to here: Site and situation
Due – Monday 17th 3:30pm!!
*Presentation in class Week 5 – Wed 19th Aug
Working in groups of two, students will consider broader notions of place and non-place though a collaborative investigative journey. Students will be encourage to move outside of their ‘known’ environments to seek out a new site that challenges their understanding of place. Students can utilise photography, film and sound to capture this site.
Students are encouraged to develop creative approaches to realising a media outcome. Whilst collaborating with ideas, theories and approaches to site, students are to each capture and create a 3min maximum film and sound work. (Make length appropriate to work)
As a progression from their first project ‘Your place’ students are encouraged to continue to challenge their perception of different sites and look for ways to creatively challenge this through a media outcome. ‘From here to there’ considers notions of journey, transformation, departure, arrival and everything inbetween.
Technical requirements
Combination of lowfi on-hand and professional equipment
Maximum 3min edited film and sound. (Make length appropriate to work)
Submission
Upload to google drive edited film and 500 word (doc) reflection.
Uploaded to blog, edited film and 500 word reflection.
Note: Reflection needs to address the following:
- Conceptual approaches to working with the select site, situation and composition and editing of material
- Theoretical concerns in relation to place and non-place. Utilise your readings.
Readings:
Non-Places : Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. Marc Augé
Read pg 75-114 From places to non-places http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jread2/Auge%20Non%20places.pdf
Researching your own practice : the discipline of noticing
John Mason, London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2001
*******In your shared readings folder*****
Loosing Site: Architecture and Place, Shelley Hornstein
Looking at memorial: Chapter 1. Marking Site: Walter Benjamin was Here Pg 15-22
Available online RMIT Library