Sunday, February 14, 2016

Place(s)

Lauren B reflects on Oxbow's Place Project:

In our first few weeks at Oxbow, we have undergone rotations of three different art classes, with our time in each studio lasting about one week. Each rotation had an assignment based on three themes: “Observation,” “Place,” or “Narrative.”  I just finished my time in New Media (a combination of video and photography), where we chose a place to tell a story about in a film.
The assignment entailed recording sounds, both natural and self-generated, filming different aspects of our chosen ‘place,’ and assembling our final product using Adobe Premiere. The project was extremely open-ended in the sense that we could depict a feeling behind a significant memory, tell the story of us using place as a metaphor, the story of a place as we see it, or the story of something important and transformative occurring in said place. I decided to opt for the last topic, and I chose The Oxbow School as my place.
For my project, I wanted to showcase the changes that students undergo upon arriving at Oxbow, as I have already seen it clearly in both myself and my peers just within the past couple weeks we’ve been here. When we go somewhere new, we are completely unaware of what is to come. Along the way, we absorb everything we learn, much like a blank canvas being painted on. To get this message across in my film, I put together footage of the campus, the studios, students working on their projects, and gathered several people as my subjects to demonstrate the analogy of blank canvases being painted on.
New Media has been my favorite art class so far, because I feel like I have learned so much in such a small amount of time. I am an avid photographer, so I knew I would enjoy the course, but I am becoming increasingly interested in film after spending time putting together a video with a concept I am passionate about!


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