Stages of development

This is our installation piece from start to finish!

 

Autocad 2

 In this lesson we learnt how to ad text to a drawing and how to adjust this if needed (colour etc)









We also learnt how to access the quick properties menu.

 This is a demonstration of the hatching tool, being able to add pattern to a shape easily without having to draw it all separately.

Finally we were given a drawing exercise, we had to copy the drawing we were given. Exploring the different techniques we have learnt and new ones that we needed along the way.

Final set up-development

We wanted to add more technology to the piece so that it would look like it had more within in it. We decided to add something to the upper area inside and also to drape the curtain more in the piece rather than just let it hang. There were more wires added around the bottom of the monitors etc and also more lights added around the piece, we placed posts around the installation added lights to these and also taped hazard tape around the piece bringing it all in and restricting people from walking within the curtain.

 

Final set up

This is the final set up as to how we are going to be having our installation, all the monitors and cameras are connected and working a there are lights installed onto the top bar as well as the curtain.

 



design development

 

Today we started to set up the equipment that we needed for our piece, we had three monitors and three cameras connected together. We sat the monitor within the cases so that they tilted up slightly, we first connected the camera so that it relayed the picture to the monitor that it was next however we decided to connect them to a different monitor so that if you were standing in front of a camera your image would not be on the screen in front of you. We were also able to suspend the hoop above our piece on which we aim to attach small lights.

Margaret Thatcher speech

We thought about what sound we might want within our piece and connecting this with the idea we had about Margaret Thatcher, we felt that one of hr speeches about community spirit would be appropriate for this.

 

 

suitcase positions

We started to play around with positions of the suitcase and how we would want them to interact with each other and the monitors and cameras we were having within in them.

 

 

We decided we liked the configuration with the three suitcases around the bottom of the one propped on the stool (bottom left). After talking to the tutors we decided looking into different types of container and what his might say about the character.

Surveillance research

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/02/westminster-cctv-system-privacy
Millions of people walk beneath the unblinking gaze of central London's surveillance cameras. Most are oblivious that deep under the pavements along which they are walking, beneath restaurant kitchens and sewage drains, their digital image is gliding across a wall of plasma screens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/may/28/tate-modern-surveillance-art

No one knows how many CCTV cameras there are in the UK. The best estimations put the number at 5m, or one camera for every 12 people. That's 20% of the world's CCTV cameras on a whingey North Sea island. It used to be that we were only six feet away from a rat. Now we're only six feet away from a camera. This exhibition showcases everything from super-secret American military bases, aerial landscapes of the Kuwaiti oil fields after the first Gulf War to people dogging in cars. It shows the theft of privacy and questions the basic notion of privacy

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/exposed
Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects.

The UK is now the most surveyed country in the world. We have an obsession with voyeurism, privacy laws, freedom of media, and surveillance – images captured and relayed on camera phones, YouTube or reality TV.

Autocad session 1

 First session of auto cad learning tools to be able to create lines and shapes and know how to move areas and to make them different sizes and to trim anything not needed.

 

 

 

idea development

After talking to one of our tutors we decided that part of the idea we originally had didn't really work with the rest of what we had planned. So we took out parts of it to allow us to develop the suitcase and its connection to the idea. In our idea we had a camera that would be used to film the audience and this would be relayed to another part of the piece, our tutor felt this was a strong part of the idea and to develop this, we decided to have more cameras and to revolve our idea around the idea of surveillance.

Margaret Thatcher and Polonius

During our research we have found that former Prime minister Margaret Thatcher actually quoted Polonius in many of her speeches so we decided to look into this connection. I started by looking at quotes from her that she used and looking at her character in comparison to Polonius.

A few quotations including those of Polonius:
'to thine own self be true'
'I am extraordinarily patient,provided I get my own way in the end'

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105763

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1VePIeWbE
I found this video of a news report that followed an IRA attack on the Grand hotel in which she was staying for a conference. It was after this that she returned to Fichley and in her speech quoted Polonius.

Object workshop

Working with objects we arranged our suitcase so that it was covered by the netting material to create a sense of intrigue and sneakiness. We had wallpaper pieces that had texture that was similar to snake skin because we felt he is sneaky and snake like. The bottle was a response to that he might be very particular and the tweezer tool linked to the idea of sneaking about.

Polonius 2

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/speakers/polonius

Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 86–92

Polonius, right-hand man of Hamlet's stepfather, King Claudius, has been employed to spy on the prince and report on his very odd behavior. As Polonius begins to deliver to the king and queen the results of his investigation, he embarks on this windy preface. Besides being nonsensical, his speech is self-contradictory: he wastes plenty of time denouncing the time wasted by rhetorical speechifying.

"Brevity is the soul of wit" has become a standard English proverb; in the process, its context has been somewhat neglected. Polonius, though he has high opinions indeed of his "wit" (that is, acumen), is the least brief and one of the least "witty" characters in the play. Freud aptly referred to Polonius as "the old chatterbox" in Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious

 Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 193–206
Polonius diagnoses Hamlet's madness as a form of "love-melancholy," considered a full-fledged disease in the Renaissance. The old man has ordered his daughter Ophelia, Hamlet's girlfriend, to refuse to see the prince or receive his letters, and Polonius now concludes that such refusals have resulted in Hamlet's sorry state. Hamlet, however, only puts on a show.

As a sort of revenge on Polonius, whom he recognizes as one of King Claudius's numerous spies, Hamlet plays the "satirical rogue" and enumerates the debilities of age, pointedly making fun of Polonius

Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78–82
"To thine own self be true"
 Polonius, who is deeply impressed with his wordliness, has perfected the arts of protecting his interests and of projecting seeming virtues, his method of being "true" to others. Never mind that this includes spying on Hamlet for King Claudius. Never mind, as well, that many of Polonius's haughty, if not trite, kernels of wisdom are now taken as Shakespeare's own wise pronouncements on living a proper life.

Polonius-useful links

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/hamlet/character-analysis/polonius.html
An actor portraying Polonius should address the question of whether he is a devoted father or a ruthless politician. Does he sacrifice Ophelia to his ambitions and/or his fear of being discarded by the King? Does he send Reynaldo to spy on Laertes because he cares about his son, or is he worried about what Laertes' possible behavior might reflect back on his own character? Is he more concerned with his position in Denmark than with the welfare of his children? Is he then the victim of his own contrivances?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu_kZiG5XJo
Tim Brosnan perfoms Polnius monlogue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDwv_6PuH90
Comparing produtins of hamlet Act 2 Scene 2

Hamlet suitcase project

 

For this project we were given a character from the Shakespeare play Hamlet and also a suitcase. We will have to develop a piece around the suitcase that shows our interpetation of that character,the piece can be performative or an insulation or a mixture of both. We will test differet techniques involving projection, lighting and sound.
My group was given the characer of Polonius.