Video installation and compostion

Meaning of video installation:
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. ... Sometimes, the idea of a participatory audience is stretched further in interactive video installation.

above information taken from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_installation

Formal ideas:
While we looked around the art department it was suggested that we find good places to film installations and how  i could do that.For a part it was suggested that i look for somewhere that has a easy power source(in in this case a socket).By finding this place it would mean a wouldn't have to put a long cable across a room in in this case it would help me avoid anyone tripping over it.The best place to actually put a wire would be going a long the side of the room and stick it down.

Looking around and finding these places:
Below are some of the places i pictured that would be good for video installations:

i felt that these places would fit well being square and closed. the four walls being close together 

Uni research( requirements to get in)

All requirements are for Illustration:


1. First uni of choice:

Sheffield Hallem university
Course length: 3-4 years

GCSE maths and english at a grade c or grade 4 (or above) plus one of the following:
122 UCAS points including at least 64 points from two A level or equivalent BTEC national qualifications.Both AS levels and general studies are accepted

link to website : https://www.shu.ac.uk/?sc_itemid=F6F8B8E7-A4BA-4656-A3F6-41BE61AD80FA

If your application is successful you should be invited to attend a selection event with a portfolio which should demonstrate a strong portfolio.


2.Second choice:

Nottingham Trent University 
Course length: 3 years

A-levels - BBC; or
BTEC Extended Diploma - DMM; or
112 UCAS Tariff points from three A-levels  or equivalent qualifications; and
GCSEs - English and Maths or Science grade C.

link to website: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/courses/find-your-course/art-design/ug/2017-18/fine-art

Application for this course is through the UCAS application form.
Ready to join us? Then apply as soon as you can. Just click the apply button at the top of the page and follow the instructions for applying. Make sure you check the entry requirements above carefully before you do.
Selection for this course takes place through UCAS application form and, where invited, online work submission, interview and portfolio.
If you are invited to attend an interview at the University, you will need to bring your portfolio with you for assessment.

3.Third choice:
Lincoln universty

meson scene

meson scene:

background, setting, environment, milieu, mise-en-scène mean the place, time, and circumstances in which something occurs. background often refers to the circumstances or events that precede a phenomenon or development <the shocking decision was part of the background of the riots. A great example of this is a video me and my class mates watched lthe other day that was supposed to advertise a new kenzo perfum taht had came out. Below is a link to it:
https://youtu.be/ABz2m0olmPg

First of the video in general was amazing to me. So much emotion perforated in it and the actress was so good as well. There were really strong element of MS taht had been captured in her movements and the surroundings (the building for one and the way it was symmetrical) some of the places she would stand in) one part that I felt was quite iconic was when she licked the head of a bust (believed to be winston Churchill ) I felt this could mean taht she was trying to take away how power that had been built up (being a male figure ) and could suggest that women were also just as strong. Another thing taht it could have suggested was that she was trying to diffenatiae the past as obviously she couldn't have done something like that in the time for multiple reason.

composition

Composition:

In the visual arts—in particular painting, graphic design, photography, and sculpture—composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work. It can also be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art.

examples of composition:

Above are some of the ideas of themes that can be followed if you want to do compostion. Some come across as more loud and bright then others and colours and shapes are highly diffrent. 


here is one image i have found that i feel uses composition i like the painting style and the brightness.this does not contrast with other pieces of work and i feel doesn't try to hard to be something it isn't.
The term composition means 'putting together,' and can apply to any work of art, from music to writing to photography, that is arranged or put together using conscious thought. In the visual arts, composition is often used interchangeably with various terms such as design, form, visual ordering, or formal structure, depending on the context.

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and the use or interpritation.
Below is a diagram that explains the 3 parts of Semiotics:



Symbols:
signs where the relation between signifier and signified is purely conventional and culturally specific, e.g., most words.

Iconic:
 signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture.

Indexical:
 signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire.


This ties into art as it helps show different ways a picture or a message can be brought across.The media and graphic designers use the method regulary.

Below is the website i got the information:

http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/semiotics_and_ads/terminology.html

A break down of surrealism

This post is for my own reference and is to help in explaining surrealism all words are eater my own or are taken from the relevant articles,Please note that further work will be added later on.

a good link for all the information needed:http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/surrealism

A 20th century avant garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind,for example by the irrational Jutapealsen  of images.The artists which inhenrtirted this movement were as followed:

Marcel Duchamp:
One of parcels pieces of work that was most notable to me was this piece:

Marcel Duchamp, Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train (Nu [esquisse], jeune homme triste dans un train), 1911–12, oil on cardboard mounted on Masonite, 100 x 73 cm (39 3/8 × 28 3/4 

i felt like this piece was quite a illusion and that it has a strange look to it.

and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse , as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to put art back in the service of the mind.

Duchamp's early art works align with Post-Impressionist styles. He experimented with classical techniques and subjects. When he was later asked about what had influenced him at the time, Duchamp cited the work of Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, whose approach to art was not outwardly anti-academic, but quietly individual.

Georgina O keefe:

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"

Max Ernst,sir henry moore ,Rene magritte ,joan miro Salvador Dali, pablo picasso, man ray , Dorothea tanning. Mc escher.
French poet André Breton launched this movement in Paris in 1924
It became an international movement including British surrealism which formed in 1936
They were strongly influenced by Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) and his theories about the unconscious
The aim of surrealism was to reveal the unconscious and reconcile it with rational life
Key artists involved in the movement were Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte and Joan Miró
Two broad types of surrealism can be seen: the oneiric (dream-like imagery) and automatism (a process of making which unleashed the unconscious by drawing or writing without conscious thought)
Some (such as Max Ernst) used new techniques such as frottage and collage to create unusual imagery