Rounding Up

It is always a great feeling having finished a project and especially when you know you can let go of all the stress it causes you, but having said that it shows how much we care about what we do. It has also been fantastic to really get my creative juices going and free myself…

Rêverie

                             For my narrative book I knew that I wanted to use a piece that my photos could tell a story through. Having taken my tray photos I immediately thought of the piece Rêverie by Claude Debussy, which in French means day dreaming, the photos I took were very abstract and seemed to have a…

Narrative Update and Book Reaserch

Well I’m pleased to say that I’ve finished writing my essay for this term! With that I also send my apologises that it has taken me this long to get round to writing a new blog post! Obviously a lot has happened since my last post so I will briefly fill you in. My digital…

Photo-shoot for Digital Narrative

  Aims for the Shoot: My main aim of the shoot is to document how I compose music in response to not being able to play the harp anymore and my frustration of not being able to get into the room where my sister practices.  I have two options one is to try using video…

Candida Höfer: Film Aesthetic

Trinity College Library, Dublin by Candida Höfer, 2004 In one of my project tutorials I was introduced to the artist above Candida Höfer. When researching her work on Google I came across some shots she had taken of libraries around the world and I was captivated by the sheer beauty of the lighting and the…

Further Narrative Ideas

Narrative Ideas: Music Original ideas for digital narrative: to document the discussion and relationship between me and my sister when she is practising the harp. Underlying theme: my frustration at not being able to get into the room where she is practising, the fact that I can no longer play the harp anymore and my…

Pilgrim Harp’s Time-lapse Video

Since my last blog post I have continued to experiment with my music ideas for my narrative project. After a tutorial with one of my tutors and after talking with my peers I decided to try and create a narrative using the discussions I have with my sister when she is practising on her harp.…

Blurb e-book’s

For my narrative project I have been asked to create both a digital and a hard copy of our work. Both theses forms are to be on the same theme, but using different narratives. Basically we have to create two narratives on the same theme, one digitally like a short film and the other a…

First Blog Post: Narrative Music Ideas

For our latest project in my second year of university we have been asked to do an assignment on the ideas around narrative. I was really chuffed at first to hear that this was our latest theme and my head is overflowing with ideas, which seems like a good start. As shown in the video…