MY PECHA KUCHA VALESKA WILLIAMS

WHY I CHOSE THIS PATHWAY: I’ve always had a passion for being creative, since I was a little child and this has always been my strong point. I have always loved trying out new things and seeing where it would take me. About 3/4 years ago I got into photography and I have never gone without a camera since. I liked it because it was a different creative area that could capture time and elements in my life I loved. I love the idea of where it can take me in life, giving me things I would have never dreamed of. Allowing me to take in what life has to offer and pushing my dreams to find where I belong. I can be inspired by the simplest things in life.

PAST PROJECTS: For my first brief I looked at portrait, looking closely at the humans face and how it can express different things. I enjoyed doing this brief, but I felt as if it didn’t fully satisfy me and I thought I could have done a lot better, however I do feel like I managed to improve my skills and I can apply these to my final project. For my second brief I decided to work with images that have already been created by other people like landscapes and other images like that to create an imagery world that I felt would be really interesting and exciting. I found that creating a completely new image by manipulating images allowed me to be much more creative and I learnt more skills that I could apply in the future. For my final brief I decided to create a video as well as doing some still images. I wanted to broaden the idea of still life and try and taken a different approach to it. So I looked at buildings and other aspects in our day to day life that doesn’t move. I was quiet happy with the outcome of this brief as I think I got some good footage and it was very good quality.

FINAL PROJECT My main idea is TIME, but I want to go into depth with it and create something that gives time a meaning. With time lapse I could capture elements in life people don’t see or don’t stop and appreciate. With long exposure I could experiments with different things, capturing movement, taking a picture of a ghost town, light painting. With photo manipulation I could take my own images an manipulate them to how I think time will make them look, how things looked in the past to how things will look in the future. Taking time in a different meaning like in sport where every second counts and in one second everything could change, this meaning can also reflect on a persons life. I want to try something really different unlike anything done before, but to do this I will have to do a lot of research of the creative work that’s already out there. I want to create something exciting and breath taking. I really want to work with time lapse and push my skills that I have learnt, I also want to see if I can maybe incorporate some light painting of some sort.

TECHNIQUES: Long exposure – time lapse Going to a series of different locations around the uk and doing sun setting/ raising time lapses and putting it together as a final video as well as taking pictures and manipulating it into stage of the day. Lights on sports people Collaboration of film and images Filming/photographing sport Photo manipulation – my own photography work

EXPERIMENTATION In the past I have experimented with many of the techniques I am thinking of maybe use and in doing so it allows me to think about what will and wont work and try and broaden my ideas so I will try something new. Allowing me to experiment with different things. With the knowledge that I already have can help me to push what I’ve got now further and make this project very inspiring and interesting. Like with time lapse I know what my first attempt at it was ok but it could be improved so much and so I need to push myself to find out what I could do to make it breath taking and meet my project story. With long exposure I have done a mixture of different things, from light painting to star drawing. I know that this technique is really interesting and will probably be really good for this project and help to bring out the life behind my ideas. I can experiment with elements behind this technique that I was too scared to try before.

ARTIST/PHOTOGRAPHERS/VIDEOGRAPHERS Pascal Baes – Time Lapse Sam Taylor-Wood - Photographer Devin Graham – videographer Eric Curry – Light Painting Photographer Patrick Rochon – Light Photographer Aurora Crowley – Light Photographer Philip K. Dick Koyaanisqatsi - Film Benjamin Button - Film