Use your time Wisely -How do you approach what is in your head to a piece of work -How to generate ideas Collect stuff, write things down, peter keeps books of everything from magazines clippings, pamphlets, photos, anything that catches the eye. If stuck can go to this book and look at it for inspiration.
Music Videos- I've found this is quite a popular topic in the art school here at Dundee, Many students projects are videos, (ones I've seen have been very good, with a high level of production) I found it interesting, when at home, we are told not to have our work end up like a music video, and to stay clear of it. The focus at Maine appears to go beyond, into a more 'abstract' form of work. It would be interesting to compare students at Maine and Dundee and where they are after Uni, how they come up worth ideas et etc.
Write ideas down, they leave your head as fast as they enter. Peter also talked about collaboration, and how he relied on others skills to create his work.
Peter really discussed the exploration of ideas, and the possibilities of ones imagination and putting it into film, and the use of juxtaposition, and the use of shots and what can be achieved.
What I gathered most from his lecture was a lot of what I saw in the Katrina McPherson lecture in that, collaboration is a highly productive method of creating art. Richardson even mentioned at one point that most of the work he'd ever sort of deemed successful was part of a collaboration and not his own doing because he grew to dislike doing work on his own.
While it was interesting to see his work in the commercial music video field, it was much more intriguing to see the way that he stores his ideas. I, like many people, write ideas down when I get them, but only God knows where they are all now (I'm sure in many different course notebooks and textbooks at this point). His method of keeping things together, images, text, whatever, all together in one place for future reference is something that I think we all should look into doing.
This sort of brings me to a complaint that I tend to have about our own New Media program now. These lecturers with many pieces of work to show for themselves are stressing collaboration and the generation of ideas yet, at UMaine, New Media students tend to keep their ideas to themselves because they don't want them "stolen" or they want to get the best grade in the class. If life was based on grades, then art has no purpose but to fulfill the views of a higher authority. Why is it that students can't seem to collaborate more and make it an equal interest project when some of things that we are doing in classes is really quite astonishing? Bah, rant, sorry.
My last comment would be that he mentioned the look or style of his films in that they all shared a very similar feel. It was briefly discussed last semester in YiF but as an artist, you have the ability to create a style and look that is your own. Whether or not you stick to this style in everything that you do is up to you, but you have the power to be as constructive and creative as you want when it comes to the feel of a piece.
The first thing is I agree with Kat over in England a lot of people are interested in Music Video's. I don't know if it is a bigger field over here but more people seem into it. At UMaine we commonly get the statement "Don't make it into a Music Video", which I'm okay with now because we get the chance to go beyond a music video... which is essentially a commercial for the band to try to sell CD's if you really think about it. I also really liked his idea of keeping idea's, in an organized fashion. My problem is that I don't do that, I keep most of my idea's in my head and because of that they usually stay there. Only recently have I been starting to turn them into something in the case of Screenplays for a Sitcom, and eventually a Film i'll start before I come back to America. It's just a good feeling to know that your idea's won't be lost forever in your head and to have something you can actually show to other people instead of keeping it to yourself.
What I found most helpful with listening to Peter, was learning how and where to generate ideas. I always struggle with formulating an idea and I worry that it's because I either have nothing to say or to a lesser extent because I'm being pigeonholed by the assignment's criteria. Peter generates his ideas through his everyday experiences and explorations with people, his dreams, magazines, pictures, artists, films, etc. I guess my mistake is not documenting and recognizing where inspiration can come from. I always hope that a brilliant idea will slap me upside the head but that is rare. I think it's a great idea to keep these binders of things and ideas that he stumbles across to help inspire his own artwork. I'm sure other people do this but it never really crossed my mind.
Jake mentioned keeping our ideas to ourselves in order to get the best grade. That's really interesting since New Media, I guess, is supposedly grounded in collaboration and interactivity and all of that jargon. Maybe I'm in the wrong major because I prefer to work by myself simply because I want my idea to be carried out in my own ways and I think someone else will just mess it up, completely disregarding the fact that someone else could very well have a better way of doing it. I guess that's a learning process and being able to find the right type of people to work well with you.
I agree with Peter in that inspiration comes from many sources. However, I have not taken it to the lengths that he has, with the collections of all the things that catch his eye in the course of a day. I can understand the desire to create art in a collaborative manner. This can be very productive, and removes the hazard of art becoming a commodity, something to be traded for profit. However, I do not like the complete rejection of solitary creation. Though I have noticed the trend someone mentioned about UMaine New Media students keeping their work to themselves.
I thought that Peter was a pretty intriguing guy. While I didn't fully understand the comedic pieces he did, they were very well put together and formed coherent narratives that delivered some sort of a message...pretty weird messages. What I did like about this lecture was the ideas he had for storing inspiration and creativity. I think the one thing that I'll definitely take out of this lecture is the idea of storing magazine clips, articles and anything in general in a booklet. That was a pretty brilliant idea and much better then what I do at the moment, storing ideas in text files on my computer. It's extremely easy to navigate through ideas in this way. I also thought it was really cool that he produced the first few Blur videos, I know that has nothing to do with what I've been talking about or what we're supposed to talk about. But it was just an interesting way to start a career. How the members of Blur where just "friends of his" is pretty cool and turned out to be a good way to get a career started.
Peter's history as a music video director is evident in his more personal work. The shots, cuts, and general feeling brings my back to early 90's MTV content. I think the uhaulman short was an entertaining jab at media censorship. Putting a black bar over something that is not to be seen does not change what is behind the black bar, thus, this sort of censorship is largely meaningless. The video's attempt at self-censorship seems to be saying there's not difference between f**k and fuck.
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Peter Richardson
Use your time Wisely
-How do you approach what is in your head to a piece of work
-How to generate ideas
Collect stuff, write things down, peter keeps books of everything from magazines clippings, pamphlets, photos, anything that catches the eye. If stuck can go to this book and look at it for inspiration.
Music Videos-
I've found this is quite a popular topic in the art school here at Dundee, Many students projects are videos, (ones I've seen have been very good, with a high level of production) I found it interesting, when at home, we are told not to have our work end up like a music video, and to stay clear of it. The focus at Maine appears to go beyond, into a more 'abstract' form of work. It would be interesting to compare students at Maine and Dundee and where they are after Uni, how they come up worth ideas et etc.
Write ideas down, they leave your head as fast as they enter.
Peter also talked about collaboration, and how he relied on others skills to create his work.
Peter really discussed the exploration of ideas, and the possibilities of ones imagination and putting it into film, and the use of juxtaposition, and the use of shots and what can be achieved.
Peter Richardson:
What I gathered most from his lecture was a lot of what I saw in the Katrina McPherson lecture in that, collaboration is a highly productive method of creating art. Richardson even mentioned at one point that most of the work he'd ever sort of deemed successful was part of a collaboration and not his own doing because he grew to dislike doing work on his own.
While it was interesting to see his work in the commercial music video field, it was much more intriguing to see the way that he stores his ideas. I, like many people, write ideas down when I get them, but only God knows where they are all now (I'm sure in many different course notebooks and textbooks at this point). His method of keeping things together, images, text, whatever, all together in one place for future reference is something that I think we all should look into doing.
This sort of brings me to a complaint that I tend to have about our own New Media program now. These lecturers with many pieces of work to show for themselves are stressing collaboration and the generation of ideas yet, at UMaine, New Media students tend to keep their ideas to themselves because they don't want them "stolen" or they want to get the best grade in the class. If life was based on grades, then art has no purpose but to fulfill the views of a higher authority. Why is it that students can't seem to collaborate more and make it an equal interest project when some of things that we are doing in classes is really quite astonishing? Bah, rant, sorry.
My last comment would be that he mentioned the look or style of his films in that they all shared a very similar feel. It was briefly discussed last semester in YiF but as an artist, you have the ability to create a style and look that is your own. Whether or not you stick to this style in everything that you do is up to you, but you have the power to be as constructive and creative as you want when it comes to the feel of a piece.
For Kat: Cheers.
The first thing is I agree with Kat over in England a lot of people are interested in Music Video's. I don't know if it is a bigger field over here but more people seem into it. At UMaine we commonly get the statement "Don't make it into a Music Video", which I'm okay with now because we get the chance to go beyond a music video... which is essentially a commercial for the band to try to sell CD's if you really think about it. I also really liked his idea of keeping idea's, in an organized fashion. My problem is that I don't do that, I keep most of my idea's in my head and because of that they usually stay there. Only recently have I been starting to turn them into something in the case of Screenplays for a Sitcom, and eventually a Film i'll start before I come back to America. It's just a good feeling to know that your idea's won't be lost forever in your head and to have something you can actually show to other people instead of keeping it to yourself.
What I found most helpful with listening to Peter, was learning how and where to generate ideas. I always struggle with formulating an idea and I worry that it's because I either have nothing to say or to a lesser extent because I'm being pigeonholed by the assignment's criteria. Peter generates his ideas through his everyday experiences and explorations with people, his dreams, magazines, pictures, artists, films, etc. I guess my mistake is not documenting and recognizing where inspiration can come from. I always hope that a brilliant idea will slap me upside the head but that is rare. I think it's a great idea to keep these binders of things and ideas that he stumbles across to help inspire his own artwork. I'm sure other people do this but it never really crossed my mind.
Jake mentioned keeping our ideas to ourselves in order to get the best grade. That's really interesting since New Media, I guess, is supposedly grounded in collaboration and interactivity and all of that jargon. Maybe I'm in the wrong major because I prefer to work by myself simply because I want my idea to be carried out in my own ways and I think someone else will just mess it up, completely disregarding the fact that someone else could very well have a better way of doing it. I guess that's a learning process and being able to find the right type of people to work well with you.
I agree with Peter in that inspiration comes from many sources. However, I have not taken it to the lengths that he has, with the collections of all the things that catch his eye in the course of a day.
I can understand the desire to create art in a collaborative manner. This can be very productive, and removes the hazard of art becoming a commodity, something to be traded for profit. However, I do not like the complete rejection of solitary creation. Though I have noticed the trend someone mentioned about UMaine New Media students keeping their work to themselves.
I thought that Peter was a pretty intriguing guy. While I didn't fully understand the comedic pieces he did, they were very well put together and formed coherent narratives that delivered some sort of a message...pretty weird messages. What I did like about this lecture was the ideas he had for storing inspiration and creativity. I think the one thing that I'll definitely take out of this lecture is the idea of storing magazine clips, articles and anything in general in a booklet. That was a pretty brilliant idea and much better then what I do at the moment, storing ideas in text files on my computer. It's extremely easy to navigate through ideas in this way. I also thought it was really cool that he produced the first few Blur videos, I know that has nothing to do with what I've been talking about or what we're supposed to talk about. But it was just an interesting way to start a career. How the members of Blur where just "friends of his" is pretty cool and turned out to be a good way to get a career started.
Peter's history as a music video director is evident in his more personal work. The shots, cuts, and general feeling brings my back to early 90's MTV content. I think the uhaulman short was an entertaining jab at media censorship. Putting a black bar over something that is not to be seen does not change what is behind the black bar, thus, this sort of censorship is largely meaningless. The video's attempt at self-censorship seems to be saying there's not difference between f**k and fuck.
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