here are a few more photos of a few of my sketch book pages! I'm incredibly artistically challenged so I'm happy with how it's come out!
Monday, 7 May 2012
Visual Communication Final Piece
This is my final piece for the Visual Communication module! (click the link above!)
I decided to film myself signing, because sometimes I get worried I'm losing my touch and in essence, my mother tongue, and I felt as if it connected me back to my family and specifically my mum. People have said to me over the years that signing is beautiful, and I should be proud I know it fluently and I've always brushed it off with a nervous giggle and a bright red blushing face because to me signing is just my way of communicating to my mum and the rest of my family, but this assignment has really made me feel so passionate towards signing now, and even more determined to have a career in which I can speak both English and BSL whenever it is needed.
I chose this song because it's such a lovely beautiful one to sign too as I can really express each word being said. For instance with beautiful and fall.
I'm incredibly glad with how it has turned out and I'm very grateful for my friends who have participated in this video!!
I decided to film myself signing, because sometimes I get worried I'm losing my touch and in essence, my mother tongue, and I felt as if it connected me back to my family and specifically my mum. People have said to me over the years that signing is beautiful, and I should be proud I know it fluently and I've always brushed it off with a nervous giggle and a bright red blushing face because to me signing is just my way of communicating to my mum and the rest of my family, but this assignment has really made me feel so passionate towards signing now, and even more determined to have a career in which I can speak both English and BSL whenever it is needed.
I chose this song because it's such a lovely beautiful one to sign too as I can really express each word being said. For instance with beautiful and fall.
I'm incredibly glad with how it has turned out and I'm very grateful for my friends who have participated in this video!!
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Vis Comm
So today I pretty much finished my sketch book! All I have to do left is to print off a couple of photos of Joe Collins because at the moment it looks like he is just a random man I have written about! and I need to type up my evaluation which should not be too hard at all as I have written parts of my evaluation throughout my sketch book which overall is great!
I also need to start on my final piece which I want to be a montage of hands incorporated into a music video that I shall be signing in, however trying to find a suitable or easy enough song for me to do this with is proving to be difficult as I get easily flustered when I can't sign as quick as the song goes!
so the search continues
I also need to start on my final piece which I want to be a montage of hands incorporated into a music video that I shall be signing in, however trying to find a suitable or easy enough song for me to do this with is proving to be difficult as I get easily flustered when I can't sign as quick as the song goes!
so the search continues
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Visual communication project update!
So today I finally sat down with all my project stuff and whacked out 12 pages for it!
I'm a little concerned however because it's quite plain, but I'm going with the theory that less is more as the photos do actually speak for themselves, and of course it is a visual communication project, so that ties in perfectly.
I'm yet to print out my bubbl.us of original ideas which I'm going to stick in the front of my sketch book, and then my opening statement of why I have decided to do my project on hands! The pages I have done are similar to the pages I've inserted below - As you can tell they are quite simple, however each page shows the different ways we use our hands without really thinking about it. So, sure, we use our hands to write, pick up a phone and so forth, but we also use our hands to express ourselves, to show how we're feeling, to cover our faces when we're experiencing negative feelings, and so on. Which I believe is a much better way of thinking about how we use our hands!
The above page is probably my most plain page of my entire sketch book so far, and I'm a little bit on edge about how empty it is, so I may insert another image, however this picture is of two of my best friends, so for me it has a happy, personal element which makes this photo a little bit more deep and meaningful than it really looks. I also noticed that my friend Jack is incredibly happy eating an apple, whilst my friend Hannah looks a bit confused eating pringles, not a planned photo, it's just a photo I found on a camera from NYE's but it really did make me giggle!
So yeah, so far so good and alls well in a days work.
I'm doing my sign language part of the sketch book now, and I have to get images from the artist I have chosen in which I'm going to write about as well, however he does ASL paintings rather than BSL, but nonetheless it is still viable and easy to understand to those who aren't at all in knowledge of Sign Language.
I'm a little concerned however because it's quite plain, but I'm going with the theory that less is more as the photos do actually speak for themselves, and of course it is a visual communication project, so that ties in perfectly.
I'm yet to print out my bubbl.us of original ideas which I'm going to stick in the front of my sketch book, and then my opening statement of why I have decided to do my project on hands! The pages I have done are similar to the pages I've inserted below - As you can tell they are quite simple, however each page shows the different ways we use our hands without really thinking about it. So, sure, we use our hands to write, pick up a phone and so forth, but we also use our hands to express ourselves, to show how we're feeling, to cover our faces when we're experiencing negative feelings, and so on. Which I believe is a much better way of thinking about how we use our hands!
So yeah, so far so good and alls well in a days work.
I'm doing my sign language part of the sketch book now, and I have to get images from the artist I have chosen in which I'm going to write about as well, however he does ASL paintings rather than BSL, but nonetheless it is still viable and easy to understand to those who aren't at all in knowledge of Sign Language.
Monday, 16 April 2012
My little sister!
This is my little baby sister!
I say baby, and will always say baby but she's fifteen years old haha. This hasn't been her year, not at all. She's been up and down and all around the bloomin' place, but yesterday as we cuddled in bed she told me that she had been the happiest she's been in a very very long time this weekend, and it made me speechless, because I've done nothing except sit on the sofa under a duvet with her watching britain's got talent, ranting about the lack of the Titanic on TV, cuddling up to the cats and watching her hamster Marshmellow run around the lounge in her new plastic ball! so it's made me feel a bit silly ringing her every day for the past two months asking how she is and how was her day, when all she really wanted to be happy is to just be a normal kid without a worry in the world, and I guess we all missed that really.
I just can't wait to move out of this house, into the new one in the midlands and spend the entire summer making our new rooms our bedrooms and venturing into town and getting settled with her! It'll really be a family oriented summer - which I guess is due to the fact I'm upsticks and moving hundreds of miles away for her safety and leaving all my friends behind back home, but its not too bad I guess, I have three close friends up in the midlands, one of which lives on my floor in halls!
this has been a uni-irrelevant post but I wanted to do a happy, work unrelated little blog for a second!
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Visual communication project
Initially, I was very confused in regards to the assignment when Mandy first told us about it, and i wasn't particularly fond on the amount of freedom that we had as I prefer to have some guidance when it comes to assignments. However in the first lesson I had back with Suzie she told us it was more specifically on a Sense of Place, which initially I was going to do on my home, and therefore my family, cats, friends and everything that makes me, me!
But being home I've thought about it a little bit more and thought more specifically with my family, and come to the conclusion that with me and my family, hands are a brilliant sense of place because my family are deaf I use BSL to communicate with them, and in general I use my hands a lot when talking or expressing emotions/feelings. So overall I feel as if doing my project on hands/bsl is much more of a sense of place to me than anything else, as I can incorporate so many other things, such as family and friends, and i already have some images of me using my hands in an expressive manner in photos that have been taking whilst ive been with my family and friends! it's such a great topic to do, I'm so excited to start!
I've got some images printed out, but I need some pens, and colourful paper, I also need to print out the work of the artist I've found and then I'm all ready to go and start on this project - hurrah!!
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But being home I've thought about it a little bit more and thought more specifically with my family, and come to the conclusion that with me and my family, hands are a brilliant sense of place because my family are deaf I use BSL to communicate with them, and in general I use my hands a lot when talking or expressing emotions/feelings. So overall I feel as if doing my project on hands/bsl is much more of a sense of place to me than anything else, as I can incorporate so many other things, such as family and friends, and i already have some images of me using my hands in an expressive manner in photos that have been taking whilst ive been with my family and friends! it's such a great topic to do, I'm so excited to start!
I've got some images printed out, but I need some pens, and colourful paper, I also need to print out the work of the artist I've found and then I'm all ready to go and start on this project - hurrah!!
:D
current update on work!
So to tell you the truth, I am completely and utterly in confusion with all this work!
It hasn't been properly set out, and there's so much to do in so little time.
but here it is broken down -
I've started Andy's, but doing it in word because it's easier to reference and set out rather than here, no offence blogger. I've done 280 words so far which is better than doing nothing so I'm content with that. My only concern is that it is mainly typing up and bulking up my notes with websites, and it doesn't sound highly academic! but regardless, I'm happy with Andys assignment.
The Vis Com assignment is in another post!!
As for Carolines context assignment I'm still highlighting and taking notes from the handouts given by Caroline, and I've started an essay plan in which I'll follow once I have enough information from the handouts to make a good academic, structured essay! :)
It hasn't been properly set out, and there's so much to do in so little time.
but here it is broken down -
I've started Andy's, but doing it in word because it's easier to reference and set out rather than here, no offence blogger. I've done 280 words so far which is better than doing nothing so I'm content with that. My only concern is that it is mainly typing up and bulking up my notes with websites, and it doesn't sound highly academic! but regardless, I'm happy with Andys assignment.
The Vis Com assignment is in another post!!
As for Carolines context assignment I'm still highlighting and taking notes from the handouts given by Caroline, and I've started an essay plan in which I'll follow once I have enough information from the handouts to make a good academic, structured essay! :)
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