yr 3 level 2 presentations

YR 3 level 2

The end of year exhibition for the level 3.

While listening to the presentation from the Level 3's I forgot to take photos of the students work, so have decided to use a brief description of works and my thoughts.   Either from my notes or from memory!

Charlotte Miller

Cosmos - blue  - bolt - large - confident - engaging - atoms - visual - persuasion - factual - belief - exploration - excitement - opinion - informative - explanatory - planet - space - searching - black hole - expressive - cox - research - warboy - turnbull - doig - inspired - start - middle -end - movement - £££ - canvas - colour - mix - blur - bright - time - expression .

Charlotte kept good eye contact, had shown she had researched her work. She also talked about her learning along the way which as her audience were students was in keeping and appropriate. This kept her talk interesting as she did her best to give us facts along the way...         Did you know??

   She talked of how she was inspired by a painting by Peter Doig and how this in turn had left her wanting to know more.  For me her talk gave a great sense of passion, passion for what she had been doing and for learning.  I will remember her talk and her work because of the way she spoke with confidence, engaged the audience and expressed her work. With time I think Charlotte's strengths for speaking it larger groups will grow and because she is a student still I felt her presentation was well a little shaky but still strong. Overall, a good expressive presentation.

Morgan Robinson

TIME - dark - negative - images - photography - children - play - fun - flash - light - energy - berton - acerate - small - lack - think - unsure - descriptive - set up - acceptance

Morgan's talk was in itself a strong enough talk but she herself expressed her regret of the final execution of the work, like scale and naming of the work. She had noticed how with the development maybe renaming would of be appropriate for the end exhibition.
Morgan could of looked at the scale and set up of the work in the place intended and then worked along with that to quickly make any last minute adjustments. This didn't take away from the quality of the work she had produced, I just felt it could of been more. By researching or looking at installation work she could of maybe had a stronger outcome. She had known this while doing her talk and for me I feel she should learn from the negatives and grow from the positives she had shown.

Some things to consider (for all of us) were Scale - Planning - adjustments - reference.

Likes - good images - understanding - acknowledgment - talk - expression - idea.

I did like her talk as I thought she showed knowledge in the field she was interested in, like talking about shutter speed and adjusting it to give the image a more energetic feel. The printing onto acetate I also didn't realise was possible and was an interesting factual point of how and why this happened.



Ivy Geo

black - white - positive vs negative - photography - photo-gram - light - shine - dark - room - tone - research - development - fun - engaging - process - detail - perseverance - determination - example - progression - strong - different - £££ - derges - neusass -

Ivy's talk she had decided to hold up and talk through her sketch book, this was a good way of showing us her progress, learning and understanding. (us) being students I thought this was a good and insightful way to present her work. It gave her prop's to talk about and also a sense of how she learnt along the way. This is another talk I will remember because of the personal touches she had expressed and talked about. But also her passion and wanting to achieve a good image. Her expression when talking about the senses and how working it a dark environment had also gave her another level of process and detail. Setting her sense's alive in the dark. Her work I feel could be progressed into an installation and an interactive work...this I think excited me as I could see growth for her and her work.  Ivy's work in general is very good, strong and delicate. I feel her talk showed us a level of determination and passion that should be required all this stage, but also how a work can progress along the way.

James Stewart

box - photography - black - white - poverty - interesting - viewpoint - thinking- pattern - tone - interior - brick - tiles - royal - grand - eerie - development - personal

While James seemed a little shy I could tell from his talk that he had researched his work well. Talking about the passion and inspiration from the 1940's and the poverty back in these days. He reference photographer Bill Brandt's photography which I could sense a similarly from mainly because of the time period mentioned and black and white images. His work I think he should of been more confident about because it was good. It worked! He had thought about the meaning and shapes, the once forgetton wealthy building now derelict and now in disrepair. His work was neat with a white bordering, which wasn't needed as the disrepair and old style could of been portrayed and depicted out by thinking of a less uniformed outlook. Overall I think James did well and showed his working. Just needs to find his confidence more!

Catherine Bird

childhood - growing - memories - environment - block - repetition - repeat - events - colour - book - cards - perseverance - dedication - purpose - personal - narrative - story - illustration.

For me Catherine's build up of decoupage shown perseverance and control. This kind of work will need planning and time so this shows her strength's. Her work displayed a narrative next to it, reading this along with the images worked really work. Overall, I feel she did good work and I thought about how her work being mixed matched layout had for me resembled the work of  Anthony Green's
Embassy Lodge 1990. When I had seen his work in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Gallery I had thought of how interesting the layout was and how it had gave a great viewpoint and different perspective.
I think Catherine's work could be a bigger scale work that really jumps out at you, and at the time we discussed this with her. I feel that she could also be a illustrator of children's decoupage style books. Nice work with a nice personal touch.

Kane Kennedy

soft - brutal - talk - animals - pet - food - following - passionate - planning - fact - shock - calm - cruel - centered -  effect - realisation - similar - dogs - butchery - horror - untold - heard

Dog meat trade in china, well I didn't know much regarding this issue so for me the thought of it was a little brutal. I think Kane's work was to softly and he should of shocked more. I wished he had showed how much the effect of researching this kind of stuff (watching video's, cruelty, passion and effect) had made him feel. I didn't get this from him work, it could of really effected each person on a higher level and I think if your doing this topic you need it to have an impact.  Not because he hadn't thought about the work or it was lacking anything but because for us as human's we tend to forget about or ignore the things that can effect our mortals or feelings. To get attention you need to make people think and look and sense. To add sound I felt could of gave another way of adding a personal touch of the graphic nature of the subject. Some of his facts were enough to send horror and nasty images to my mind...This would of caught everyone's senses and scared them into remembering or acting. To sign the petition as to a way of connecting to the work.

His sketches or research could of added a another level as well as temperature and smell of the environment. Overall the ground work was there but for me the  wow factor was missing because it was lacking the brute truths and his passion and effect. Very brave topic and a hard one to judge because of the nature of it. It is only my opinion and do think his work and talk was good.

These talks helped me to realise the one thing we all we as artist's or designers is passion. The talks all gave a sense of excitement and connectivity to they work. Whether you belief in the cause or the effect, the reasoning behind the work is important but not always necessarily needing to be on show.

Things to consider are 

1. layout, set up and scale
2. lighting and different times of the day or seasons etc (weather, environment, could effect the feel of the how the person is veiwing or impacted by the work)
3. intention or impact
4. audience
5. research and development processes
6. passion understand and knowledge
7. review and planning
8. don't be frightened to change it
9. think about talking and confidence (knowledge is power but how you come across is very important
10. opinion of others or a trusted person (comments from audience afterwards) 
11. incorporating technology or computer graphics to add impact (something no-one did here)