Final Performance Evaluation

At the beginning of the day I feel absalotlelly amazng, we oth knew we had it in the bag under lock and key, even with 3 hours sleep spirits were flying high at how well we were abot to pass this class (and as evident in the video footae i dont do well without my sleep). We spent the entire train journey talking about how nice it will be after the performances to relax for a while and just accept the natural high that we will be on havig spent so much time into our work for this class.

When we got to the proud achivist it seemed like everthing was unorganised soon afterwe got there our lecturer had to eave to get something she left at home and i was given the responsibility o filming peoles work which i didnt mind one bit but it seemed veryone but us was in a really tressed mood.

Our performance didn't go as great as we had planned, the voices in the video were ver hard to hear as we were given a Bass speaker to lay our audio from which cut out all the voice frequencyes andgave favour to the bass notes in the msic,and tething is i had already plnned for audio/voice hearing problems by testing out our film on 3 different types of speakers, i just didn't know we would get given a glorified subwoofer to play our film. Also our tutor came up to us about 3 or 4 times during our (15min same as the other studentswho showed a film) video performance to ask ''is it nearly over?'' which after the first time absaloutely killed our high spirits and left us feeling like we were some sort of embarressment to the art world, so as the video was nearing its end jake started panicking and saying 'she hates it we should turn it off', i disagreed but he got up to stop it before the end to which i was like ''no don't stop our film man'' and as he got to the screen our tutor yelled ''CAN YOU TURN THAT OF NOW'' at that point i was like ''yea your right, turn it off''. What an absolute downer to the day. - This is however just my interpretation of how things happened (given no further explanation by our tutor who left halfway through the day), along with a few of our classmates who saw what happened and were also were also shocked at the level of (apparent) disrespect for our piece and our artistic expression. I don't Mean to be mean here but if  am to evaluate how i think my performance went and what there the contributing factors i must be honest and direct, it was a confusing experience for both me and my group partner who doesn't want to mention it in case he gets his blog marked down.

I am however extremely pleased with the outcome as i felt we took people on a multi-sensory journey into our lives and the experiences and 'shenanigans' that we get up to as young adults n London. I feel that e should have definitely shown the poem and the map first s that he audience could have time to contextualize what was going on on the screen and i think that if i had just watched the video first without paying much attention to the map and hearing the poem it may have looked like it was just two lads messing around and not taking the project very seriously, which is just one of those things that add to you experience as a practitioner and a performer on goes in the list of things you learned this time so you can be better next time'.

Video Editing Finished

Here is a look at our finished video titled '2 Men, Couple Drinks and a Derive' I am pleasantly surprised with the way this turned out and think we both thoroughly deserve the quality of how this turned out with all the effort we put in.
The video takes you on a journey of the everyday lives of Jake and Lloyd around London and tries let you in on some of the life experiences relating to the body as a map. And with ur use of multiple formats provide an ode to Guy Person in our attempts to offer a "dynamic perspective" in order so make the experience seem as real as possible as not something fictitious we just dreamed up.

Completed Body Map

Finally! Its 5am and the body map is completed, i am very pleased with the outcome it looks amazing, the body is presented in different section which all relate to different sites, we have our liver related to the places which we have drank alcohol, our hear relates to the places we love or have experienced love, our brain relates to the times we have taken drugs and the other parts of the body are the same accordingly.
Hopefully the audience will connect with this as i know it is mostly goig to bee sudent at the performance sceening wo have had similar experiences, as Jane Rendell notes work or this type are often “fuelled by sentimentality” (2005) .

 The map shows area's and features that are discussed in the video for example there is a plaster on my hand from where i fell off my long board trying to ride it with 2 men on at the same time which is discussed in the video itself, so this map acts as a way for the audience to interact with the video, and the video with the map also.

 You can see the stickers we stuck on, these were from a poster in my bedroom and related to the parts of the body and our experiences 'drink' near the liver 'Get munchies' near the stomach and 'love' near the heart, this connected to our use of the comic book theme and artwork used n the video and on the map making our work cohesive.



Rendell, J (2002). Art & Architecture: A Place Between. London: Routledge.

Stages of Making our Final Body Map

STAGE 1: DRAWING AN OUTLINE

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Jake drew an outline of my body for our body map.

STEP 2

We then joined up all the gaps and corrected any errors in the lines.

STEP 3

We then looked to our previous draft in order to get perspective on what we did well the first time and replicate and what we need to leave out.

Step 4

This is us adding the poem to the map, it was initially the plan for Jake to do this task as my handwriting is atrocious but after an hour and not much progression i stepped in, i was faster but obviously less neat and presentable, but it looked good the way both our poems were in our own handwriting, gave a little more insight into our personalities and traits.

Stage 5

We then stuck all of the materials we had saved in order to relate the experiences around London to the derive and our day-to-day lives, things like toothbrushes, a beer lid, a condom etc.

Fashion Shoot for My Photographer Friend in Exchange for Help Filming

 I have a friend who is a photographer and he is always asking me to do fashion shoots as he thinks i have a decent sense of style and i have never once said es but this time i decided we needed the help with our project doing filming as deadlines were approaching so i accepted on my own term, my clothes, my location and a large election of funky sunglasses.

What was good about this was the fact that i managed to use some of this in the final project when we needed more footage, this was shot in tooting park and was a recent part of my life.

Our Goals for the Video

With this Video piece our intention i the bring to life our experiencing of 'deriving' around London, for this project and in our personal lives outside uni, a virtual tour of what we get up to, our 'shenanigans' as my Irish friend put it.

Naming Our Work

We decided to change the name of our work from 'Body Maps' to '2 men, Couple Drinks and a Derive' as we thought this was more fitting o what our project was about, yes there as a body map in our peice but that was not all it was about, we wanted to add some humor into the title that was evident in our piece.