Learning Agreement First Draft - Maps and Networks

Here is the first completed draft of my learning agreement which I have made based on my Surveillance Installation idea as I decided this is the one I would like to try and make:

Digital Film & Screen Arts Learning Agreement				YEAR:		2
NAME:  Billie Williams			DATE:  12/10/16
Unit Name/No: Maps and Networks		Deadline for submission: 15/12/16
GROUP PRODUCTION:	NO	INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION:			YES
DESCRIPTION: A synopsis of the work you intend to undertake in fulfilment of the aims, outcomes and assessment criteria of the unit giving fuller detail in response to each of the five sections below.
I have chosen the theme of Surveillance to link into the overall brief of Networks. I want to focus on the idea that Surveillance is thought of as a Network of cameras and technology and has lost the voyeuristic meaning that people are actively watching you in society. I want to create an installation with two mirrors angled in front of the viewer to create a multitude of their own reflection looking at themselves from all angles to add a human face to this idea of surveillance. The fact that it is themselves looking upon their own person adds to the meaning more in the sense that it could be anyone watching you in any state. I will then add more of an atmosphere to this piece through a soundscape made using a recording microphone on the piece itself that picks up the sound of the viewer and loops it so it builds and builds to replicate the ways the mirrors (cameras) are sending your image around. If this proves too difficult I will make a sound scape that uses general ambient noise and camera sounds looped and looped to build up. I will also have a projector and possible a strobe light that will flash into the mirror space with images and light replicating cameras taking photos. This is all in order to try and put the viewer in a more vulnerable state and therefore make them aware of the implications that cctv can have on us.
RESEARCH: (Initial reference material and sources)
Initial research was looking at pieces such as: -       Susan Philipsz, Sound Installation Pieces to influence my Sound Collage -       Bruce Naumen, Live Taped Video Corridor to link to Surveillance -       Anthony Gormley, Blind Light linking to the human form in installation -       Tony Oursler, Projection Installations link to my idea of reflecting projections Future Research: -       Look into Mirror installation pieces (the Welcome Collective) -       Look further into the network of Surveillance -       Find out how to make the sound loop work on my piece
CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING (How the work relates to your future goals, previous work, work by other practitioners and so on) -       This work will help me gain a better understanding of installation art and possibility help me consider a more curator based role in the future. -       This work relates to past pieces I have made which have considered the effect of surveillance. -       My work fits well into our current culture and how society is becoming overcrowded with cctv. -       It links well to the themes that a lot of Physcogeorgraphers look at like have urban culture has taken over.
TECHNICAL AND CREATIVE SKILLS (Propose specialisms, resources required, relate to the above) I will need to find myself: -       Two large full length mirrors and work out a way to secure them together in the right angle and keep them secured upright in the installation space. -       A projector which I will borrow from the university but will need to work out how to use (technicians help) -       A strobe light which I will try and source myself and find a way to safely install. -       I need to get a microphone and two speakers and find the skills necessarily to loop the sound on a live recording (technicians help)
COMMUNICATION (How you will communicate with the staff team and collaborators/How the work communicates with an audience, crowd funding, dissemination etc) I need to attend the workshop on practical skills to learn how I can install my piece. I need to learn the specialist sound skills required for my idea which I am hoping sound tutor James can help me with. I will ask a technician at the Equipment hire to help me with the projector. I will need to communicate with the Curator at a very early stage to be able to get a place in the gallery where my work will fit and not cause any health and safety risks. I am going to ask colleges in the class and possible a technician at the gallery to help me actually set up my piece ready for the exhibit. My piece is very interactive and therefore makes the viewer a part of it. I am hoping it will pull people in because they will want to know what it is. I want it to cause the viewer to feel vulnerable and left more aware about the ideas behind cctv. I am hoping word of mouth will help get people around campus interested.
SELF MANAGEMENT (Work plan, schedule cross referenced with timetable, assessment deadlines etc) I plan to get all my research and a full proof plan sorted by this time in November. I will then spend the rest of November sourcing all the materials and the rest of the skills needed for the piece. December will then be spent on assembling and practising my installation so all the issues are worked out ready for my assessment on the 15th of December. I will then spend the installation week in January setting up my piece in the actual installation space.
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