• Introducing you on how to work at college – research process, practice process and how they marry together
• Underpin with theory and language!
• Informed practice – essay writing

This unit marks the beginning of your student journey as a critical, curious, thinking creative. It will begin to provide the tools, the setting, and the road map for you to tell your stories and make meaning through practical and theoretical research in your visual practice. To make compelling, original work at the H.E. level, a crucial first step is to challenge yourself, take risks, question everything, experiment, provoke, reframe, and research. 

Wavelength – Michael Snow

Final submission – create an original artwork that has been, in some way, inspired by the series of research workshops and lecture series within the Introduction to Animation unit. The inspiration could come from a particular artist, a film, an aesthetic movement, a theoretical concept, or anything else covered in any of the class sessions. Any medium and can be as simple or ambitious as you wish.

Artist statement, which should comprise the following:

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• The title of your created piece
• A brief discussion of the creation of the artwork (such as the materials used, the processes and/or techniques used) and what you hoped to achieve with the piece – did the work turn out exactly as you had hoped?
• A discussion of how the work relates to an area of the Introduction to Animation unit. What inspirations have you taken? How does this artwork express, reflect upon, reinvent, and /or react against these ideas? What do you want the viewer to take away from the piece?
• A bibliography (reading list) comprised of at least three written sources that you consulted as part of your research for this project. Scholarly materials obtained in person or electronically from the UAL library. Each listed source should have a brief description (2-3 sentences) of the content of the book or article, and how the text helped to inform your creative choices in the submitted artwork.
• 500 words.
• Submission via Moodle on ‘Introduction to Animation’ unit page using eSubmission link.
• Final PDF submission should demonstrate your artistic sensibilities and communicate a necessary awareness of design and professionalism.

Production principles is DIFFERENT to Introduction to Animation

Homework for Jane:

• Take 10 photographs of ordinary objects that DO NOT belong to you in or around your house/street.
• Catalogue and arrange them in a group so they tell a story.