Project Name– First Travel Journal
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Project Initiation Document
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Prepared By:
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Cloudseeker
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Date Prepared:
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24th Oct 08
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Revision Number:
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Ver 5.1
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Reference
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MA Digital Arts online
Research Project-Self Initiated
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Project Objective
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How can Japanese poetry structure become the structure of a non-written form of contemporary Sound Design?
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Background
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This project is influenced by the Artist’s interest in Japanese poetry especially Matsuo Basho, through a combination of sound design and visuals, to convey emotion and narrative, focusing on the early work of Music Producer and Arranger Quincy Jones.
Chris Watson’s “Owls” the afternoon Play, demonstrated how sounds could be layered to convey multiple narratives and create a feeling of a place.
The influence of Japanese literature, created a poetic pace in the films of Akira Kurosawa, thus they work on a both literal and symbolic level, like a Haiku or Renku.
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Project Aims
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The aim is to identify the underlying theory of a Japanese poetry
Explore a selection of each form, through analysis and then explore how it could shape a new form of work inspired by the form of the original.
Explore and explain the structure and background behind the Haibun, Tanka, Sedoka, Sijo, Kasen, Renku, Choka, Gojuin, Haiku, Renga, Senku, Waka.
Training in using Apple Soundtrack
Recording “ Professional standard” location sound
Expand understanding of Sound Design
Explore the use of film/Sound as a creative tool.
Expand use of Photoshop Cs2, After effects, Premiere Pro
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Rational
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Through a series of visual experiments based on my research, which will lead to developing a particular aesthetic style, form and narrative may lead to a sustained piece of work or a series of short pieces: it is possible that one literary form may be more captivating than others and lead to experimentation in only one form.
This project will allow me to spread my wings and fly solo, I intend to explore, experiment and redefine my practice through practical experimental.
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Constraints
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Production costs to be decided.
Project completion date- to be decided
(Consider interproject dependencies)
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Current Issues
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Seek advice in Japanese Literature
Contact
University of London, Japan and Korea Departmental
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Project Outcomes
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Outcomes
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Final project available as download Album via itunes both Sound and Video.
Project setup to be agreed with Course Supervisor
Requirements to signed off by Course Supervisor
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The finished product will be presented as part of the assessment and may be available for download afterwards.
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Obstacles
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Access to learning assistant to enable learning
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Media
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Equipment –Sound Recording equipment (to hire)
Camcorder HDV (to hire)
Apple Classic Video ipod
MacBook +Wacom Tablet
Software to use
Quicktime Pro
Creative Suite Cs2
Adobe Premiere
Apple Soundtrack
After effect
Scanner
Digital SLR Camera
This is subject to change due to nature of the creative process.
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Methodologies
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I intend to use the Fernando Lourenco &MMUBS creative template to develop ideas and expand my creative procedures, through the use of the
Divergent
Divergent Convergent
Convergent Divergent
Convergent process
I intend to keep a journal and scan this for my blog Page.
This project is focuses on Sound design, Japanese poetry and experimental filmmaking, the overall aesthetic is the wabi –Sabi aesthetic, found in traditional Japanese Poetry and art.
I would like to use modern technology to explore Japanese poetry structure as means to introducing the various art forms to children as a form of Cultural enrichment.
I intend to keep an audiovisual journal, which will catalogue all my experiments, not just the end results.
Keep a record of all the word in progress and present a series of interviews to explain the process.
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Risk assessment
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I see risk to my person perhaps through the production process; Wildlife can attack if they perceive a threat.
Due to the cost of equipment, security will be arranged to avoid threat to person or the equipment.
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Timetable
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Start Date
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Project start-9th September 2008
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End Date
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Project end date –December 2010
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Estimate
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Expect to work 36 hours per week over 7 days over the duration of the course.
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Final Product
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End Product will be a Solo Album-Untitled
Available as download via I tunes or direct from website and will be exhibited also.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chris Watson (2008): BBC Radio four: Owls
Makoto Ueda (1982): The Master Haiku Poet Matsuo Basho
Tom Lowenstein (2007): Classic Haiku
The Greatest Japanese poetry From Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki and their Followers.
Lucien Stryk and Kevin Bailey (2000): The Acorn book of Contemporary haiku
Virgina Woolf(1945): A Room of One’s Own
Fernando Lourenco &MMUBS ©2005
Creative Thinking Styles Template
Talks
Fernando Lourenco 2008
Creative Thinking Presentation and Workshop: New Entrepreneur Scholarship
Audio Interviews
Michael Jackson: BAD Special Edition Re release 2001
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 1
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 2
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 3
Michael Jackson: Thriller 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition) Re release 2001,2008
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 1
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 2
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 3
Michael Jackson: Off the Wall Anniversary Special Edition) Re release 2001
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 1
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 2
Quincy Jones Voiceover interview 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/documentaries/quincy.shtml
Quincy Jones 2008 : Ixtra Documentary
Video
Akira Kurosawa – 4 Samurai Classics (Seven Samurai / The Hidden Fortress / Yojimbo / Sanjuro) – Criterion Collection (1956)
Rabhia Saeeda MA Digital Arts 