CMP Project 2

Research Mark Wallinger – Threshold to the Kingdom My initital idea was partly inspired by Mark Wallinger’s ‘Threshold to the Kingdom’, in which the arrivals gate at an airport terminal is filmed and shown in slow motion. Over the top, grand classical music is played while the passengers walk through the terminal. Turning his footage from an extremely mundane and banal process of arriving at an airport into a grand and beautiful montage of what can be interpreted as people passing through purgatory. This led me to think more deeply about the arrivals hall at an airport, and how it can play a more significant part in a person’s life than you might initially think. Or rather than play a significant part, they are symbolic of the gates to a new place, beginning or life. From this, I started thinking about my dad’s journey from Australia to the UK in the 1980s and relating this to the arrivals hall, which would have been the end to the most tedious and ...

My initial idea for the topic of space, place and history is to create a documentary that depicts an area that is rich with history such as during World War 2 (WW2), showing examples of houses that were destroyed but now is replaced in the present day.Another example is to show old industrial areas, to show what it was like to work there in the past and show what it is like now in the present day. In either of these examples, there will be a character going to these places and looking around as if reminiscing about the past. It will contain flashbacks so that the audience will know of the history behind these locations. I also believe a narrator will be effective in explain details of what happened at these locations. Furthermore, music can be played lightly in the background so that the audience will be more engaged. Examples of locations: - WW2 Locations: Coventry Cathedral (The Cathedral Church of St. Michael):         ...

Research – Jeremy Deller Jeremy Deller is a Turner prize winning British artist who deals mostly with British cultural and political issues such as the 1984 Miner’s Strike and the Battle of the Somme. Looking at Deller’s work, you can see he has an affliction for the complexities and intricacies of modern British culture. In his book ‘Folk Archive’, he travelled to differing parts of England and documented varying cultural events, from the soundsystems of Notting Hill Carnival to Tar Barrel Rolling in Devon. The book highlights the everyday creativity and cultural richness of the British people not always seen in mainstream media channels. A noted ability of Deller’s is his skill to blend into each chosen environment and provide the viewer an intimate vision without it seeming exploitative or too much as an outsider looking in. The work of Deller’s that relates mostly to our project is one of his more recent experiments. On the centenary of the Battle...

Where the project becomes personal to me is considering why i'm in this place right now, it is due to the arrivals of my great-grandparents and grandparents in this country between the 1950's and 1960s coming from Jamaica and Grenada. My Mother's Side Speaking to my mother she recalls hearing that her mum arrived in the U.K on a boat called the Windrush. She told me of how her mum met her father aboard the boat en-route to the country, having been from different parts of the same island (Jamaica) the two had never met until their paths had crossed as they both embarked on a new chapter in their lives. He went on to pursue my grandmother as my mother described and they would end up raising a family setting in South-West London. Conducting my own research i found that a boat called the 'SS Empire Windrush' was responsible for shipping a great deal of caribbean workers in the 1950's on an 8,000 mile journey to England. It's first journey docked at Ti...

After meeting with our tutor he helped us hone in on the direction of our product, suggesting that instead of recruiting actors to demonstrate our piece, we may instead take part in the action. He pointed us towards artists' work such as Mark Wallinger and Jeremy Deller. The work of Jeremy Deller was pointed out to us as something that we might be able to take inspiration from as we are looking to create a piece representative of multiple points in time. He has an artwork that was staged across the U.K entitled 'We'r here because we'r here'. He took interest in the influence we had taken from the Kanye West video and showed us the video from The Prodigy 'smack my bitch up' which was trailblazing at the time (1997) and received MTV awards for best music video direction and best music video editing. We found that the video was still powerful despite it being now slightly dated, the way the video is filmed in first person allows the viewer to become mo...

The brief of the task immediately made me think of something that we may create incorporating different eras and ages but using this concept of place to unify and link a spread of generations. I feel that the context of history and a space gives us the opportunity to expand our project as we may incorporate historical iconographic elements such as costume and props however setting may be more difficult to dress up in a historical way. I do however feel that the setting and mise en scene may remain the same as presented from present day to this view of the past as long as all other elements are executed well. I immediately wanted to use 1st person POV to present a filmic piece as it would really allow the audience an opportunity to invest in our work and experience it first-hand. Influence I was influenced by Kanye West's music video for 'All Falls Down'. via GIPHY The combination of Kanye West's character storytelling with the first person visuals makes fo...