Archie Wells is a Bath Spa University graduate from the class of 2019, his work in the live music industry really inspired me in my second yer of study to compete a project in the same industry. I found myself always checking his website and social media to see how a graduate working in the music industry presented their work.

This will be a short blog post that will act as a check list for features i want for my website. I will refer back to this throughout my process of making to make sure i am still on track.

During my VRP project, I wanted to create some short stories to place in my work to help build a body of work. From there I could work down to focus on one area, but its at a start of a project I like to make as much work as I can. I thought if make a blog post to talk through my process of how I create work in video games, and how I plan out the narratives.

During my second year of studies, we were again tasked to create a much more professional and efficient website. From then I have been using Square Space to design and curate my online web portfolio, it took me a long time to know the basics, but they offer an around the clock online help for paying customers. I also found myself using YouTube tutorials to help with image sizing and page formats.

During our workshop together, we spent the first few hours preparing a section of our workspace to black out all the windows. We used the white walls (that we usually use for exhibitions) to single out a space to create our camera. We used cardboard, black card and duct tape to collage around corners and difficult places to board up. From here, we cut two circle holes in the cardboard that backed onto the windows, here we could place two large camera lens to control how much light we could let in. Using a whiteboard, we pinned A3 size photographic paper to act as out sensor, from this our “RAW” files were A3, meaning we could re print these much larger than we can we normal photograph and it would still retain all its information.

Alexandra Lethbridge was our first goat lecture who undertook her talk through google meet. It was a really weird experience to be in a virtual room with my classmates, learning from a professional photographer and her life experiences. During her talk, Alexandra talked about her early life, being born in Hong Kong and moving to the UK when she was 10, Alexandra always found peace when travelling the world. Alexandra graduated from the Winchester school of art where she studied Graphics Design combined Photography, and how this really helped shape the creator she is today.

With the intense lock down, I can only go out and shoot local to me house, because of this I am struggling to keep motivated while documenting the same places over and over. I found myself sitting at home and playing video games to pass the time and to keep distracted from the world. The type os games I normally play are open world, first person sand box; I can go wherever I want to explore a visual world, something I can’t do at the moment. This allows to me frame shots exactly how I want, some even allow me to control the time of day, expressions and aperture. However the only variable in all games are the NPC’s (non-player characters), how they dress, where they stand and if they interact with me is all random. All controlled by the game.

As a freelance content creator, I am in charge of my whole company, from the production, accounts and legal attributes, everything comes back to me. In this blog post I will be going through every aspect of being a business and how I will take on each manor. I will be speaking and explaining each one with the perspective with my current goal of moving into a flat with my girlfriend in mind.

Laia Abril was one of the last guest lectures we had as a year group, her work really questions the stereotypes of social and religious groups, and helps viewers gather a deeper knowledge of the subject. With her most recent project taking over five years, it is clear to see how hard Laia works and how dedicated she is to telling stories.

For my current project, I travelled into virtual worlds and used built photo modes to document open world games. I used NVidea software to capture high resolution screenshots of my first person view in games such as Grand Theft Auto 5, The Far Cry Series and Star Wars BattleFront. No two games are the same, each offer different aspects that can help me capture what it's like to be a pawn in such a large open world. Virtual Reality Photography was completely new to me at the start of this project, but I have been played video games since I can remember. With my knowledge of the games and my years of Photography practice, I found it easy to combine the two to create work that tells a narrative of a new world. Within my work, I made smaller narrative that are unique to the game, they tell stories from the in game players perspective, like they are a real person with thoughts and emotions.

For the last three years, I have been learning to write in strictly academic circumstances, now with my dissertation handed in, I attended a master class with Colin Panthall to learn about the more relaxed type of writing. The main instances I would use this kind of type would be for social media posts, blog entries, tittles and competition entires. We covered a wide variety of subjects and also went over my project to see how I could use writing to help my images.

Born in Derby in 1989, Kelly O’Brian’s work focusses on personal and historical narrative, distortion and fragmentation of memory. Her most recent project titled “Are You There” was really captivating, I found the story behind the images very gripping and personal due to how much I related to the history. Kelly was very transparent about her journey as a practicing photographer, this really made me feel more connected with her, even through a screen

With the lack of passion and motivation I am witnessing in my life (from my peers, family and friends) I thought I would create a long blog post that will be updates regularly with work that is being created from some of the most inspiring people I know (or even work I stumble across in my research). I won’t be restricting this to one genre, I want to include all forms of art. Everything.

Back in January, we were busy planning our end of year exhibition. Due to the pandemic, we had to postpone the event, however all the marketing and promotional content was already finished. As I have a bread background in video work, I was put in charge of creating a video to help promote our exhibition, I planned out the story bored and got shoot over the duration of two weeks. Since there is no point posting this on out social media, I thought I would create a blog post for it see some light.

During my last few weeks at university, I set out to document local motorsport, my aim was to cover everything I could and narrow it down after a few months. however, with the COVID-19 outbreak I could only shoot twice; with Team Brit and a local motor cross / side car race. In this post I will take you through my process of research and development though this short project, and reflect on my work to help me prepare myself for the next time I am allowed to shoot a motor sport event.

This is a blog post discussing the ways I will show my work after i grauate this year, taking into acount the project, time to launch and cost.

Tracy Marshal is most profoundly known for her work with Northern Narratives; an outlet that focuses on documentary Photography from the north of the UK. In her guest lecture with us, Tracy talked about her work in the recent years, most recently her Photo Festival around Bristol. However, Marshall has galleries and work all over the UK, including the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool high includes the very impressive project “209 Women” which surrounding the journey of 209 female photographers who took portraits of 209 female politicians.

Marie Cropp came in a to talk to our class about publishing and creating a book, in her final year of university, Cropp designed and pub listed her book surrounding the female present in the food industry, tittles “Garsig”. While this talk was not the traditional lecture we not ally have, it was really helpful to talk to a graduate student who (just one year previous) was in our shoes completing the same projects