Reflection (story worlds)

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The significant guest speakers who have related to my own creative background are William Bardebes and Carsten Kudra, these two speakers each have different areas of interest, all three of these speakers practice in a creative area which I am interested in and the three different practices which were discussed about that relates to my creative practice is graphic design and film making. both of these practices are used in many different contexts and identifying how they use it in their own practice is important, as I think this will help me find a path to where I want to take my creative practice.
William Bardebes is a guest speaker who is a graphic designer. Bardebes is focused more on engaging his viewers with his work as he says that ” a successful graphic designer is someone who understands other story worlds and telling stories”, he believes that graphic design isn’t just a tool to tell produces and that there is more to it. Bardebes uses meaningful signs and symbols to communicate with his viewer’s, his inspiration and ideas of using graphic design as a communication tool came from being raised around watching news on the television about the Viet Nam war which included text and imagery. He also mentions how typography is important with communicating with viewers and should be practice a lot with, an example was given” fines are necessary for those street signs that are thoroughly confusing”. Bardebes context has impact on me because graphic design is one of the practices I’m interested in, I admire how he uses graphic design to communicate with his viewers, as I think it is important to use graphic design in a way which is not creating meaningless symbols, signs or text and as graphic design is widely seen and used around us we should consider not just having the main focused of graphic design for advertisement’s but as a tool to give a message to the viewers. From what was said I consider taking that away with me and betraying it in my own creative practice.
Carsten Kudra is another guest speaker who has a creative practice I am interested in. Kudra’s creative practice is based on the filming area, and he works on editing films. Kurdra uses editing to create a message in films to his viewers, he is interested in the genre of ‘alternative realities’ and this idea came to him from the influence of being born in a communist country which is East Germany and the changers happening there as he was growing up, he also read a lot and watched a lot of film’s growing up which has influence him to be interested in film making. Some areas Kudra has worked in are investigative journalism and documentary, he is currently a freelancing editor which has gave him the option of working some big companies and film directors like Vincent Ward. Kurdra is also interested in script writing his passion for this came from his personal hobby for Dungeons and Dragons as this requires him to write a scrip to create puzzles from the other players with his imagination. Kudra’s narrative impacted me because I have an interest of editing films in my creative practice, I find that using films to send a message is one of the best ways to give a big impact to your audience as it works with visuals, imagery and a story which makes your viewer feel a part of the film itself and here editing is important because every detail in the film is part of the message that is given for example sound effects lighting or the music and so I will consider that working with editing the film well is important as it has a big influence on the story or message.
As for my own creative DNA and what i’m influenced from comes from three areas from my life, the first is hobbies growing up, my history of reading books and also my love for music. Growing up I didn’t have much to do and most of the time I was bored at someones home who would be looking after me as my parents were working, which lead to me using pens and paper as a way to spare time and later on as I grew up I found out drawing was one of the things I was best at, as I started getting older I got the chance to go into different areas in art including photography, painting and others and these became my favourite subjects and also my best subjects as I would always find myself not enjoying other subjects and also not very good at them too. The second area in my life that impacts my creative DNA is my love for reading, this was were I got all my ideas from when I was about to draw if i had no ideas, because my imagination was very vivid I found it very interesting to create what the characters or settings looked in from the words in the book as they are very descriptive and this also brings me to my interest in film making because this allows me to put what I visualise to images. Lastly music was another big part of influencing me to my creative DNA as growing up I was surround in a area with music playing from peoples backyard everyday, I would close my eyes and visualise a surrounding based on the songs played because the area I lived in wasn’t the nicest I would use the music and my imagination to capture a different setting of location and this brings my interest to photography to use a device to capture images that contain images that don’t show a meaning but can be what ever we want depending on what you see.
overall both guest speakers William Bardebes and Carsten Kudra work in different practices in the creative field however they both have the intention to use their practices to send a message to their viewers, both their pracitces graphic design and flim making are a interest to me as it is something I would like to get into for my own creative practice and also using the idea of using your work or creations to send a message or a story to your viewers so my work as a meaning.

Best 10 final

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I’ve choose these photographic’s as my best 10 because the contrast in these pictures are interesting. I played around with the light in these pictures to create different shapes and also the lighting was experimented with, I created different shadows with the lighting for example only having the light source as the brightest part and the object and background the darkest part, I also edited the picture to give the light source a glowing effect.