Our storyboard shows that we want a girl walking in front of a street background wearing the clothes of the past and the future to then leave with plain clothes to question what will happen with fashion. We plan to use different backgrounds depending on the year we film in to clearly state that this is a different time point. To add to our story we put in future fashion on what we think will come back and popular again or if there will be something new altogether.
Bayeux Tapestry shows the story of the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy in 1066. This 70 metre long tapestry can be visited at the museum in France. The story being told in the tapestry starts in 1064 when the King of England (Edward the Confessor), tells his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson to travel to Normandy in order to offer his cousin William the succession to the English throne. The end of the embroidery is missing but the story ends with the Anglo-Saxons fleeing at the end of the Battle of Hastings in October 1066. The tapestry consists of 58 scenes, 626 characters and 202 horses.
Melissa Zexter has a background in photography but has also loved physical art making techniques such as drawing, painting and mosaic making. In 1999, she began combining sewing with her photography where she went on an artists’ residency program in the Catskill Mountains of New York and a fellow artist taught her how to make handmade paper. She then bought some new thread and needle to then start sewing photos on her handmade paper, the sewn drawings were of anonymous figures. I also made pillows and sewed images onto them. Soon after, she started sewing into her larger photographs which were also of anonymous figures and the sewing acted as a map or grid over the figures.
Jose Romussi is an imaginative sewer. He isn’t a designer but rather a talented artist who studies landscapes instead of the arts. Romussi uses black and white photos to then sew with hundreds of colourful threads creating contrasting embroidered pieces. In his most recent work, Jose Romussi collects images from old fashion magazines and creates elaborate mysterious images in which the face is hidden under different types of embroidery structures. When the viewer sees the image they almost disregard the original image and focus on his unique embroidery and use of vibrant colours. This creates an aesthetic concept of beauty with a static image with the thread creating movement in the piece.
In this workshop with Yulia Makeyeva we used photos and words from the People Make Jersey exhibition. This was used to create a textile photography work relating to our current project of identity and community. Our project focuses on fashion throughout the times so I wanted to create something using an old photo and the use of new vibrant colours such as Jose Romussi does in his photography pieces. With my textile piece I decided to use a photo from the Corpus Christi parade in 1913 then cut it up in a jigsaw piece type of way to have joined together with wool as a symbolic way of joining Jersey together with the old and new which relates back to our topic of using old fashion and the prediction of the future. I wanted to use bright colours to contrast against the black and white photo to help it stand out better. To sew the background fabric I used a similar colouring as green and orange are next to each other on the colour wheel so this won’t completely drown of the photo but still will add some colour to my piece. I then proceeded to add a flower at the bottom right corner to add more structure to the piece.
Jersey’s first art exhibition that connects Art and Finance, through the inclusion of NFTs. This exhibition – 2 Lives – will be a hybrid of physical artworks in the gallery, NFTs existing in the metaverse with a mixture of a live performance. This will consist a selection of Jersey artists who will showcase, sell their work and tell their stories. This project aims to educate and inform artists, curators, collectors, business professionals, students and creators about NFTs as well as selling the artwork. The creators of 2 Lives (Francesco Vincenti & Claudia Runcio) want to leave Jersey with a knowledge of NFTs gained through an exhibition. Showing students jobs of the future, opportunities NFTs present to connect art, finance and tech.
Grimes is Claire Elise Boucher, a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. In her NFTs she has the themes of futuristic atmosphere with a space theme; including “Mars,” and “Death of the Old”.
Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork. In his NFTs he has the themes of making predictions of tomorrow, based on today’s truths.
Mad Dog Jones is Michah Dowbak, a multidisciplinary artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario. As a lover of the wilderness, Mad Dog Jones’ NFTs has the themes of of beauty, nature and technology.
“THE FIRST EMOJI” reflects the new and old together with the emoji representing the new and the workers using past technology and clothing. This image could represent how we’re a slave to the internet forced to do what they want. The contrasting colours of pink and yellow against the brown clothing, dull background and foreground, makes the yellow and pink stand out better even though they appear to be softened with a brown undertone. The use of shading on the emoji gives it a 3D look to it to make it look like a sphere in the centre of the plain area of dirt. The texture of the ground is another contrast towards the emoji as the ground is rough whereas the emoji uses wood which is smooth showing how they put more care into the emoji than the ground they walk upon. The view point of the NFT is straight ahead with the main focus of the image in the centre drawing the eyeline to the emoji then down to the people standing in the foreground.
| What | A projection of the past street wearing the clothes of that time walking in front. Also having a white background to clearly outline the past fashion. |
| Where | TV studio room. |
| Who | Our project group using own clothes which would match with the decade. |
| Why | We want to show the generation of past fashion from the 60s going to today then a prediction of what future fashion will be. |
| When | Our first shoot will be done on the 14th October and use any extra time if needed to complete this project. |
| How | A single light with barn doors and a white background to project the street of Jersey in the past years to walk in front of wearing the clothes of that time. |
The main topic for the NFT projects is community so we made a mind map and mood board of different types of community then using that we chose a few topics that we thought would be a good interpretation of community. Then we narrowed it down to generations then from that we would look at past fashion, showing the different styles from the 70’s to now and a prediction of the future with the progression of Jersey through the years.
A reflection of the past.
For our project we want to produce a NFT that reflects the change in fashion over the years and how trends have left and returned. To produce this we found old photos from the 1970’s and 2000’s to put behind the person we’re filming and taking new photos to use for 2021 and the future. For the background sound we thought of finding music from the time to reflect onto the filming of the set time line used.
The colourful theme in the zine I used complementary colours in my zine to create strong contrasts throughout because I like how the contrasts emphasises the colour in the photographs. The structure of the images was placed in rainbow order to stop the colour of the background and to make the zine better is by having the background colour of the contrasting photograph on pages 12-13 the same colour as the high viz jacked on page 4.
I started by setting up the layout for my zine and how many pages I want for this. Then I selected the frame for my image to go into.
I pressed control D which I selected the image I wanted to put into which in this case was the blue car.
To make the image fit the frame I selected the image then clicked on fitting then fit content proportionately so the whole image fits in the frame.
After that I did the same again but clicked on fit content to frame so the image would fit the frame perfectly.
After fitting the images where I wanted them to be I then started playing about with the background by starting with a black and white background but I found that it didn’t fit as the images were too colourful.
I then explored with different colours and colour theory where I decided to have contrasting colours for the background. For example in the images it has mostly red so the background colour would be green.
I found the original colours I used were too dark so I tried lightening the colours which I found made the images stand out more.
I then decided to play around by flipping some images 90 degrees or even 180 degree and then added some colourful shapes for the empty space to make the zine more fun and colourful.
3 words
Colourful, respectful and helpful
A sentence
My migrant community story is about seeing beauty and colour around us even when things are looking dull and gloomy.
A paragraph
With the use of colour it expresses how people feel and colours themselves can be a community uniting people all over the world. We can also use colour when things are dull and gloomy such as the weather by staying inside and colouring. It can unit all types of people such as ones that probably can’t speak your language but colour itself has its own language. We use respect as a foundation of my community as we treat everyone the same and always help those who need it as one day we will receive the same help.
Images
Photoshoots of my community and how I connect to it and how it has changed me as a better person.
Archives
Family photos of myself and of further back, photos from the Société Jersiaise photo archive and recent photos of my travel from England to Jersey.
Texts
Text messaged from my friends and family talking about my move to Jersey and about the communities I am part of.
My zine is for all ages as I want the colours to appeal towards the younger ages and I want older members to look at it too as I want them to be aware that it is not childish to express through colour an that it is encouraged to instead. For my zine I don’t want it to be set for just one community but to be for all communities with all different sorts of cultural and social backgrounds.
Yener Torun was born in Turhal, Turkey, in 1982. At Istanbul Technical University he studied architecture then in 2014 he started a photography project on his Instagram account @cimkedi. On this account he focuses on building which are less know and side streets of his adopted hometown. his popularity has grown through the years to major media outlets such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, CBS News, and El Pais Semanal have covered his work. His work typically flatten space to focus on emphasizing lines and colours over depth.
In this photograph Yener Torun has the clear focus on the zigzag lines and how the two colours meet but don’t mix. The image is effective on how lined up the colours are and how vibrant both colours are but don’t drown out the other one. The texture of the image is very smooth and soft looking with very minimalistic patterns such as the pink with white lines and the orange and white checkers in the window.
Albert Smith originally came from Liverpool but had worked at a studio in Waterloo. In 1892 he started a business in Jersey on New Street which he maintained until 1931. He captured many scenes of island life and events of historical importance which many of his views were sold as postcards. Nearly 2000 of his images can be seen on line in the photographic archive of la Société Jersiaise, out of a total of nearly 3,300 held in the archive. All his photographs were taken to sell and, in addition to those in negative format in the Société Jersiaise collection.
“A typically posed Smith photograph of a carriage outing” this photo shows a busy setting that wasn’t set up to look like this but asked them if he could take a photo. The old photo expresses the fashion of the time and what a typical day out would look like. With the positioning of the people shows how men were gentlemen and would get out their seats for the photo whereas the women were to stay where they were. As the photo is mostly people there is hardly any focus on the background such as the tree behind them.
First I put all my photos onto lightroom then I go through them either to flag them if I like them or reject them if I don’t like them or the image isn’t right.
With the flagged images I colour code the best images red and leave the images I don’t want with no colour. With images similar to each other I would put them next to each other to compare them.
Then I narrow down the images again by keeping the best images red and with a selection on three images I colour coded them green as if the number of images where to be cut down.
Which then I transferred the new images into a folder so then it would be easier to transfer them again into a folder on my desktop.
I then went through the images and edited them making the colours bolder and brighter, adjusting the way they look to have a more centred image.
I finally put the finished images into a folder on my desktop which I will then put them together to create a zine.
With identity and community we went out and took some photos of the community. The photos where from different parts of St Helier with a mix of popular, tourist attractions and the less popular parts. We also went into the Jersey Museum Exhibition where we took photos of the Exhibition and the information on the house. With this photoshoot, we uploaded them onto Lightroom which we will then edit and create a zine of Identity and Community.
These photos will be organised and reject the photos which are blurry or not in focus. To do that we would use rejecting and flagging to organise inn a simple yet effective way. As I have the flagged images I will then go through them and label then red for the disregarded photos, yellow for maybe and green for the chosen ones to be used in the zine.