Charlotte Cresswell

Creative Crafts

Charlotte started the course late so has focused on stop frame, portrait photos and video work.

Unit 1: Exploring Ideas for Craft  
AO 1.1 Charlotte attended presentation by artists showcasing their short film and stop frame animation work.  She has completed a review form in her folder.

AO 1.2 Mood board completion in folder

AO 1.3 Completed form in folder assessing positive and negative aspects of producing work similar to that of the artists that presented their work.

AO 1.4 Completion of form identifying preferred idea for video portrait

AO 1.5 Presenting the idea 

Initial video recording of presented idea was very limited and unresponsive, see video for evidence:
  

Charlotte re-presented her idea to the tutor - see witness statement in folder for details. 

Unit 2 Exploring Tools & Materials for Craft Ideas

AO 1.1 and AO 1.2 Evidence below shows Charlotte producing different craft tasks and using materials and tools and equipment appropriately. A witness statement and Charlotte's involvement in a class discussion also offer further evidence of AO1.1 and 1.2



Portrait photos:
Canon DSLR camera, tripod, studio lights, candid and posed photos

Stop frame animation:

Canon DSLR
Materials: Cards, costumes, bottles

Completed test animation using Final Cut Pro

Version 2: Name animation using play dough to create a stop frame animation spelling out name.

Final version of this animation can be seen in completed video portrait with added filters.

Video Portrait: 
 Filming footage - 10 second pose using studio light, camera, tripod.

Tracking camera movement: Using track, dolly and camera

AO 1.3 and AO 1.4: Completed worksheet by student and supporting tutor witness statement evidence and tutor feedback / assessment sheet.

AO 1.5 Completed risk assessment form and tutor witness statement.

Unit 3: Producing the craft work

AO 1.1 Mood board plan in folder evidence of planning final piece.

AO 1.2 Tools and equipment checklist completed in folder and tutor witness statement verification

AO 1.3 Tutor witness statement assessing preparation of work space to produce craft work. 

 AO 2.1 and 2.2 Tutor witnes statement and risk assessment incident section completion.

AO 2.3 Final Project: Video Portrait
Charlotte has decided to make a video portrait about herself that looks similar to a music video and includes a live recording of her singing a song.  The film features video footage, photos of Charlotte and her interests and text as well as filters and effects.
The work will be screened at the end of year Art & Media exhibition.

 Presenting the completed work:


AO3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 Completed in evaluation form in folder assessing positive and negative aspects of final piece and action plan for future projects.

Video Portraits

Following our lessons using the DSLR cameras to take slow shutter speed images to paint with light and create ghost images and to take portrait photos we moved on to stop frame animations by producing animations of our names appearing bit by bit.  We then began to use the video function to film a variety of portrait scenes in order to make video portraits of ourselves.

We then added our own ideas and creative skills to our work.

Charlotte sang a song and created a video portrait of herself based on her love of music.

Casie added a montage of childhood photos to video and photos taken during the course to her portrait and narrated a story about her life and what she would like to do next.

Melissa similarly included a montage of childhood photos along with some blue screen work where she acted out her future career aspirations.

Michael took his interest in computer games to another level by turning portrait photos of all of his classmates into computer game characters.  He put these in his video as well as printing a series on the images for display in the gallery.

Jack focused on his passion for landscape photography by making a show reel of his work over some music he composed using GarageBand.  He also printed a selection of photos for display in the gallery.

Martin focused on his passion for music and chose to compose 2 pieces of music for a CD, of which he designed the sleeve using his photography skills.

Carla was able to make a film detailing her interest in computer games, cartoons and programmes through a combination of montages, self made stop frame animations and appropriated images.  She is interviewed by Bethany about her interests which plays over the film as well as relevant music.

Maurice showed his expertise in editing and made an avant-garde video portrait which shows off his fabulous sense of humour and his creative talents with colour, special effects and sound.

Katie made a video portrait about her friendships with other class members, using blue screen editing and adding text to tell her story.

Kieran focused on chaos theory for his video.  Using Ethan as his subject for a video, he added stop frames and video events as well as his random experiments in music to see if things randomly put together can work.

Jade emulated a music video with her best friend Jasmine and spoke about her friendship with jasmine.

Clay making