AuriolB | Ravensbourne Access \ Design

This week I . . . learned to edit images in photoshop | filmed using a gimbal | captured my handwriting as animation | began to explore premiere pro . . . Focus piece Short film \ Everything Becomes Clear :  Briefed to take inspiration from the classic Cool Hand Luke line “What we have here is failure to communicate” I wanted to make a positive message to help reverse that failure.  I’m interested in the popularity of lifestyle vlogs that combine uplifting words with beautiful videography and researched the methods of Thuy Dao and her vlog Her 86m2 .  Experimental footage shot on my iPhone drew me back to the striking lines and contrasting strong colour of the head sculpture near the University building, and I took advantage of the natural sunlight, finding a clean palette of red sculpture against the blue sky. The fractured composition of the sculpture lends itself to the message of the text and I shot upside down, tracking the flowing structure before pulling back...

This week I . . .  Explored the Ravensbourne building | Took part in a laser-cutting workshop  Looked for examples of errors in the world around me | Visited  Whitechapel Gallery \ \ Focus piece This is my first experimental laser cut  :  I learned to create a vector file and to use RGB colour modes to set the cutter guides.  » Red = cut | Blue = outline | black = engrave/solid fill I chose to print on wood, to reflect my interest in natural sustainable materials. . . . Analysing my work, I notice that the curved ‘swoosh’ underlining my name has feathered edges, in contrast to the clean font in the text and the circle. I like the energy and movement in the hand-drawn element as a counterpoint to the restrained typography.  The name is balanced on the circle, which is held steady by the end of the swoosh.  The circle motif is echoed in the dot of the ‘i’ and the full stop after the ‘B.’ This could have been further echoed with cu...