Studio Brief 1 : Time & Stress

Time & Dealing with Stress 

TIME 

The creative process
Avoid Procrastination The Stress Report, The Do Lectures “You will sometimes need to burn the midnight oil. But sometimes can’t become the norm.”Bare in mind are the people you work for compromising your rest is tiredness effecting your work in a negative way. 

The future of work how is it changing “What is a startup without bleary-eyed, junk food-fuelled, balls to the walls days and sleepless caffeine filled days.”Trust + balance + purpose + culture + happiness = future work “I do everything I can to anticipate stressful situations and avoid them at all costs.” - Anthony Burrill

Use Sources A grand unified theory of work

1. Make a list of things to do

1. Prioritise the list

1. Do the list in order 

1. Constantly communicate steps 1-3 

To Do’s 

1. HAVE to do 

1. WANT to do 

Enabling habits to make your best work 
Routine Planning helpful 

Listen to Podcast by Tim Ferriss 

Book The Four Hour Work Week 

- Dealing with anxiety - Dealing with time 

STRESS

The Do Lectures series of books or reports Statistics Tips Personal Stories 
Anxiety: A fear or nervousness about what might happen.

• might 

• doubt 

• self doubt 

Staying Late - badge of honour

Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear book 
"To learn requires intense concentration" - Cal Newport 

READING LIST 

The Stress Report (Hustle hustle, meltdown)- The Do Lectures 

Big Magic - Elisabeth Gilbert 

Deep Work - Cal Newport 

Influences of Art Forms - Art, Music, Film & Graphic Design

REFLECTING THE INFLUENCES AND BACKGROUND 

ART HISTORY 

There are a range of influences in everyday life that influence art and artists. However some things influence us more than others. So much variety within not just art but everyday life can inspire us, such as events our imagination our life, perception and thoughts. There are a few areas that can be considered the top influences they include politics, this reflects an interest of society and can include needs and desires. Another is the natural elements or everyday movements or growth factors. Finally technology is a huge factor as it is constantly changing and can change how we view things. It is important to realise that all art has context and is not just made to be beautiful or aesthetically pleasing it is influenced by history and all art has history - I.e. a meaning behind it. 

MUSIC 

Like other elements music can be influenced by a range of things. We can also interact with it as music can connect with a couple of our senses such as touch and hearing. A lot of people believe most of your taste in music is influenced by the music we were exposed to at an early age. So therefore again history and background greatly influences another aspect of the arts. 

FILM 

A huge influence of film was technology. Film has always had a huge impact on people and can be used for a range of things such as mass communication, influence on culture, advertising and or marketing, creating culture or providing fantasy. Values personal and ethical also hugely influence film. However this are only a few examples of the influences. 

GRAPHIC DESIGN 

A huge influence of Graphic Design is Context and history all work like art has a meaning and has been influenced by some form of background, person or already recognised work.  The greatest influences however involve history and technology. A key part of how designers work involves turning a problem into an answer. 

Dealing with Stress & Haiku's

Stress Group Task 

We took part in a group task honestly answering a set of questions as a group before combining all our answers. The next creative step was to select a few answers to create our group Haiku. We will use this Haiku to represent the type. We decided to animate this through a range of experiments and photos that represent key words in each line of the haiku. 

We also made timetables to plan out activities during the day and how to manage our home study time alongside uni work and social activities. 

Haiku

"Haiku" is a traditional type of Japanese poetry. The poems can consist of 3 lines. The first and last line of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line contains 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme.

Haiku Presentation

Haiku Presentation

"WHAT IF I HAVEN'T CHOSEN THE RIGHT COURSE, 

I LOOK SHIT AND TO TOP IT OFF IT'S RAINING!

I HAVEN'T SLEPT SO HOW COME I STILL HAVE A MOUNTAIN OF WORK TO TACKLE?"

As a group we discussed ideas by thinking about objects we associated with certain aspects of each line i.e. sleep we recognise with items such as pillows which we changed into books to represent the work. Our idea was to create a stop motion video in different ways for each line. I think the presentation worked well but was a bit fast, we also should of maybe had the text displayed before the image to give the viewer time to think making the stop motion images have a greater impact. Although I think we could experiment further by adding sound or converting the video to use a filter or using black and white. 

FEEDBACK

"Possibly make the writing clearer but don't lose the power of the images."

"Make a sculpture to create a more extravagant representation of "I haven't slept so how come I still have a mountain of work to do." - Sleeping on a table with books again as a pillow or lie down and pile books on top of sleeping person. People could walk round the table with the person sleeping as if this was a real sculpture in a museum. 

"It's okay to be more extravagant and funny."

"Consider adding sound." 

READ - A Smile in the Mind 

AFTER FEEDBACK

After the feedback received I slowed the video and altered the video to have filters. For the second video I reversed the video which also worked well I thought. 

Other groups

Favourite groups

I really liked the pace of the two different groups who used balloons to express their idea and present their Haiku. I also loved the "Being Alone" group their simplistic idea was very effective with the sound effects. 

These photos show a few of my favourite group videos.  

Reflection on the process 

I really loved working as a group and I think we did well to come up with unique ideas. 

What we did well?

We all worked well as a group and developed good ideas and worked well to communicate and involve everyones' ideas.

What could be done better? 

We could have experimented further by adding text filters and possibly sound to see if this produced a more finished better quality outcome. 

What have I learnt?

I have learnt to focus more on experimentation and especially focus on effective presentation techniques as presentation is one of the most important aspects and reflects mostly how ourselves and others view our work. 

PRESENTATION

Carefully consider more effective presentation techniques to make an impact. As without good presentation it loses value by taking away from a good idea. No matter how good it is. Consider mounting, larger printing, printing in better quality, scale, 3D and or 2D etc.