Monday, January 19, 2015

Looking into advertising - just think

After to talking to our lecturer about advertising and how he worked in the industry for a while it inspired me to look into local  advertising agencies for possible work experience.

http://www.justthink.co.uk/ 

just think is an advertising agency based in Darlington who have worked with companies such as Honda, Pandora and Sony creating practical effects , web design and animation 

creative design and advertising

"Our creativity is what makes us different. It’s why we stand out from the rest. Being creative isn’t about being artistic. We don’t simply make something look good without considering the job it has to do. We create a strategy which sells our clients products. We provide a unique opportunity to our clients that gives them an advantage over their competitors. Whether it’s a childlike scribble on a piece of paper or a work of art, if it creates an urge to visit a specified place, if it creates a need to buy a particular item, if it creates a desire to have something, we have achieved our objective."
Find us at: Coatham Hall, Coatham Mundeville, Darlington, Co.Durham, DL3 0XL

Email: hello@justthink.co.uk

Tel: 01325 311999

Fax: 01325 311789

Tweet: @JustThinkJTM

WOMAN IN BLACK REVEIW

last week i visited the theater to see the performance of woman in black and i was truly surprised at how well it had been produced.


The set was unusual and took a while to fully understand but at the same time was amazingly inventive and created an amazing atmosphere. The stage was made out to be an old theatre with shabby curtains, some old simple props and a mysterious door leading behind a large black sheet which revealed another space when lights passed through the sheet. this spaced was used in multiple ways , the nursery room scene with the famous haunting rocking chair, then became the grave yard scene where a white sheet was placed over the furniture of the nursery to resemble misty graves. .there was also another' 'layer' of stage set where a back light would be turned on to reveal a set of stairs leading to a mysterious door. The set may have looked simple using basic props such as wooden boxes and chairs for your imagination to work with.
the performers were flawless with only three actors in the whole show. The actors would do simple costume stages mainly off stage but smaller changes were done on stage with the actor completely changing character. This all added up to create a raw performance full of fantastic acting and terrifying scenes.
The play would be noting without the woman in black herself. her movement ,her appearance and her voice were truly haunting. in the most unsuspecting moments she would appear; during the grave scene she slowly walked down the isles eventually stopping at the front of the stage letting out a shocking scream . they did not rely on cheap jump scares as they do in modern horror films instead her parts were subtle, often her face or silhouette just appearing in the background or sat in the rocking chair.

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Paul fryer statue of Lucifer

 Paul Fryer-http://www.paulfryer.net/index


Anodised aluminium, silicon rubber cord, wax work figure, feathers/aluminium, concrete 
Lucifer: H 100 cm; wings: H 300 cm each; towers: 400 x 16.83 cm each

in 1889 a man called John Feeks was mending a electric cable in Broadway when he accidentally touched the wrong cable, this give him an almighty shock causing him to fall into a web of high voltage wires , instantly cooking him in front of the public underneath . at the same time Thomas Edison was planning on building the electric chair. Edison was the great inventor of DC power and used the chair against his rival, Westinghouse, who at the time was more successful with his AC electricity. Edison used Westinghouse AC to power the electric chair, he would demonstrate the chair on dogs and elephants in front of the public to push them away from this electricity type used for such brutal acts therefore purchasing and using Edison's supply of DC power.  this chair was up and running within three months. it took seven years to place cables underground. the sculpture shows how an innocent man died an awful death in which the situation is over powered by ideas of using the electric chair as a way of killing and a way of making money.


clay caricature of zack created from sketches (visual communication)