Channel 4 Photography

Channel 4 Photography

This entry consists of my photography I did as an experimental thing really, because u was creating a stencil of the channel 4 logo which of course I used for the spray panting the C4 logo on Slate and on a piece of brick for the reasons of art science, for the reasons of experimentation basically. Anyway, this entry will basically cover the photograph element also where I have been very experimental and using the stencil I put the stencil over the top of objects to see what is in the 4 almost like a view finder if you like but an outdoor one basically. The idea behind the photography element to these images was inspired by the fact when you watch the channel 4 idents you'll notice they'll either hide or reveal the Channel 4 logo subtly, which in fairness I have only noticed this year thanks to this course. I was trying to do that basically. 
Here is all my Photographs and video footage below.

Before I show you these videos, I found a clip, which you'd have come across in the  Ident blog entry I wrote, I found this clip showing the history of the Channel 4 logos, which I found interesting. here is a clip if you want to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtRgJVM6lmUbut I did find out that the man behind the origin of the logo design of the well known channel 4 logo was by Martin Lambie-Nairn back in 1982.

Channel 4 Logo Design History Timeline

Here is a website on the logo history where I found the information for the loo history timeline I created above: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Channel_4

Part one, Spray painting and stencil cutting

Video one: this here was footage of me spray painting the 4 logo on slate! 

Me spray Painting The 4

On this video I am showing you the process and techniques behind my use of stencil art, to show my journey and developing stages in a time-lapse way showing each stage of the process in a step by step regime. the idea occurred to me through the same reason as did spray Painting Mr Blurt where I wanted to explore other methods of experimentation where I wasn't on the computer for five minutes and let my mind run wild, I like the fact that this version of the channel 4 logo is in blue because it is simplistic and works well against the slate, which you'll see on the photographs below the second video.

Video 2: footage of me spray painting the 4 logo on brick! 

The same way as I spray painted Mr Blurt, I wanted to show and demonstrates my progression and development in this technique process, the reason why I am showing you this video is to show my journey in this process. to get from A-B to get to my resulting imagery you'll see below. 

4 Slate

4 Slate

Channel 4 Logo Spray painted on slate and brick

The idea of this experiment was to get my mind away from the computer for a bit and I wanted to see what other techniques and processes I could include where I thought about the fact that Blurt is supposed to be a series on channel four so... I would have to incorporate the channel 4 logo in my animation footage. I hope to use these spray paintings of these on my future animations I create especially on the 30 second animation. After using the medium of spray paint for my previous project on the typography and spray painting the Visible Word stuff, I found enjoyment from doing that so I wanted to bring the ol' spray paint and cut stencil back into this project. So I did, using slate and brick seeing which would look best, and I found it looks better on the brick as it brings out the colour more on the brick I feel, although I do think it looked good on the slate too but unfortunately where it was a tad on the windy side when I did this when I lifted the stencil the wind got fairly heavy for the stencil and I ended up steering the blue paint (as you can see on the right ever so slightly) but it does annoy me a bit I can't lie! Though having said that the blue on the black does look good together. Anyway that was the idea behind these pieces.

Channel 4 Photography

For this segment of this activity I had some collaboration work to help me come up with some exciting experimentation ideas and perspectives with the help from my dad, who had suggested some ideas one could never possibly think of alone, his ideas he added to this series of photography really put a spin on things, to which I really liked and decided to go along with these ideas. As they say sometimes tasks can be done better with more than one person, especially tasks like this because you can come up with ideas yourself and with the help of another eye and another perspective you get ideas in which you may not have thought of, like wha I found with some of these photographic ideas and experiments- so yes Thank you for the help there dad! I took the photographs using my Canon camera and wanted to depict the various environments around me after  watching the Idents I felt this would be a good idea to incorporate with my work.

This audio clip summarises what I did with my Photography

 

Experimentation gloves holding the 4 the idea behind this photographic experiment was to come up with visual experimentation that I thought would work conceptuallyI liked this idea because it looked as though someone is handling the 4 in their capable hands kind of message. I liked it because I liked the concept of this piece, I think this series of lens work, works well. 

The four is in our capable hands

The Stat-as-tic 4 

( a play one word) (The fantastic four and statues)

Statue 4's

This series of images came around looking at other ideas and perspectives seeing the 4 at a different view. I wanted to experiment with scale and perspective, which explains the reason for the angles of the images, I also wanted to try adding garden props. Onto the image to see what it would look like as well as to give my imagery life and more excitement to the imagery. I wanted to capture the image with different angles and perspectives, I like the fact that the 4 is quite experimental in as in the way I've used a piece of slate as the four, I was lucky that this day wasn't so windy.

Four walls, series of imagery, I took this imagery at different views, hights and perspectives, some in which I have taken a birds eye veiw variation and some of which I have taken from my eye focus of the image also as well as taking imagery at alternative angles and scales. Here is the imagery below, there are a lot of these so beware! Some of which you may think are identical but are varied slightly because of different focus enhancements. 

I really like these ones, with the four at a landscape orientation, they look unique and out of order kind of look but in some retrospect is what I quite like about these images, is the fact they look unique and have an out of place kind of aesthetic. 

4 in a wall 

Angled perspective

Now this series above is quite big in terms of images, I love these, I enjoyed using this experimental process, I like the idea of using the back of a slate kitchen tile for a texture to put inside the 4, I think it works well because the pattern in the 4's view finder looks like a texture you see on a wall from a distance, but I just like the pattern in this series of 4's I like the idea of at textured pattern occurring in this series of imagery. with this series of imagery I was also looking at angle, perspective, scale, pattern & texture.

A  four in the woodworks 

This image I decided to try another texture from the outdoors, on this photo I looked at the wood works on the fence, I liked the texture and wanted the 4 to be the viewfinder of the fence. For the idea of including texture into my imagery. 

The 4 on the roof

Yes you wouldn't believe this if I told you, these three images above were taken on the roof of my bike shed, I almost forgot what it was, I thought it was dried tarmac... for a second.  I quote liked the roughened texture of the roof, which is what I wanted for this experimentation for the four viewfinder cut-out stencil. 

Swiss for 4 the ball

Apologies for the slipper... please out of kindness, ignore the slipper... I was trying to stop the ball from rolling away. Anyway, this isn't the ideal reason to use an exercise ball, but in this case I have used it for a creative experiment. I saw the fact the exercise ball has a bumpy textures and stripes that I wanted to create on the 4 logo to give it a 3d texture. 

Channel 4 Shadow

For this small section of this small series of photographs was me experimenting with shadow photography where I saw the fact the sun had come out, I decided to hold my 4 up in the air and I saw the number 4 reflect as a shadow. I had this idea because I took this stencil with me when I was photographing and I saw that my stencil was creating a shadow which I thought was clever so I had to get a photo and to go with it is a short clip, below of the channel 4 logo in the shadow which I thought was pretty impressive on camera I just had to film it too. It made me think about it being a potential short ident on its own.  

Footage of the channel 4 logo in shadows 

More 4s

This row of fours I was experimenting with another textured fence and with the top of a cement mushroom stalk, which I thought was quite good because they're also unique textures as the fence there Is very tatted and ridged and the mushroom stalk thing is quite smooth and has a lightened look with added details to it. I took these images at different angles and focus levels, so apologies if they look almost identical.

 

A 4ce with nature... 

(A terrible plain words with the word force and the number 4)

I really like this series of imagery here, I like the idea of placing the four on the roof and in the windows. I was trying to create the obscure, the ambiguous and the peculiar I wanted to see what the channel 4 would look like in different lights and positions basically. That is what I like about this section of imagery above. Seeing as when you watch the idents on channel 4, you see the four in different lights, positions and in various environments, this here is what I wanted to achieve along with the peculiar. 

With this imagery of the pieces of wood this is a good example of imagery where I wanted to capture the 4 at different angles and perspectives, at a horizontal perspective a vertical perspective and a birds eye-view perspective, I liked the textures on this timber and thought it would look good for a four stencil view finder because you look at that in a different perspective and it makes you wonder.  It makes you question the random ambiguous, it makes you want to challenge the images which I quite like about these three images above... same towards the imagery you'll find below. 

Here goes the knock on the door, there is a number 4

This series of imagery I like also, I like the idea of hanging the 4 as like a house number kind of effect, I think it works well and has a signified message to the image. I love the imagery of the 4 on the brick wall, the texture of the brick wall is very repetitive and I like the idea of incorporating that texture in my imagery. I like the detail in the bricks, the detail of the wood at the door, the detail is there, the texture is there it brings life to the image and makes it look visually more exciting to look at. This imagery is very ambiguous and very... why? but that is basically the cut-throat beauty of this imagery because it makes you question it, it makes you come up with a story... you know you look at the image with the door what's the story, what's behind the revealing door, could it be an abandoned house? what could it be, you know you can create a story with this kind of conceptional imagery which I quite like because it gets your brain working.   

A 4 out the window

A four in the sticks




Feedback from a friend outside the uni above

Channel 4 in different environments 

                 

                  

These images here I was experimenting by putting my channel 4 stencil amongst the trees the grass and anywhere in the great out doors to capture the textures from the outdoor environment as well as to create the out of the ordinary, by putting it in different angles and perspectives. 

  4 in a cage

With this series of imagery was one of my favourite ones because I really liked how unique this imagery is using a wire shelf as a mini series, I felt this process worked well because when you look at the image of the four stencil you can see the detail of the wire, which I like because I think it achieves the ambiguous. I took this imagery based on Birds-eye view so I can capture the detail of the wire on the railing within the four from a birds eye perspective so you can see the wire in the 4.

Eye spy- I see a 4!

 The Man behind the four!

This imagery I got my dad to collaborate on, trying to capture the netting texture of the netted like texture with my dad peeping behind the four. I wanted this imagery to work similarly to some of the channel 4 idents we see in the tv where it does incorporate people also, this was basically trial and error, I wanted to see what it would look like to incorporate man and Mother- Nature together behind the 4, this does create a sense of ambiguity which I found interesting.


More 4's 

This imagery here I put on different types of colouring from brick-laid flooring to grass and the patio, this was again to captivate the 4 in nature to experiment showing trial and error. 

Four bottles of Becks on the floor

Yes, this was me taking experimentation a little further by incorporating the non alcoholic Becks drinks as a template for the channel 4, to show the target audience is 16-34 that age group is into their clubbing and their Merry trips to the pub which is the idea I had in my head with this series of imagery, again to experiment, showing trial and error and ambiguity. 

Tyre 4!

 

Yes the secret behind this imagery was a wheel of a wheel barrow, in this case I was taking experimentation to a flying storm where I wanted to capture the channel 4 logo using inanimate objects that had a interesting shape and texture to really give the sense of unique and make the viewer dubious, making them wonder in other words. I liked the use of the tire because there is a lot of pattern, texture and detail where ever I put the 4 with this series of imagery. This again was a use of trial and error.

Rainbow four!

This imagery here, I used a  colourful circle ring with ribbons, where I sae looked quite exciting and very  enthusiastic giving this imagery array of different moods from calm and ease to satisfaction and imagination. When I was taking photographs of this imagery I wanted to capture the colourful in the ribbon, again for the use of trial and error to which I felt was exciting and I thought the use of colour would capture the eye of my audiences by it creating a striking movement to this series of images. 

Peer & Tutor Feedback 

All of this imagery I felt was a really interesting way to get my head out of the computer, to create the ambiguous  and enabled me to experiment for an hour or so- to find use in trial and error from the environment, which was also what I wanted to achieve. I mean I could use these images in my animation work, but this was just a simultaneous experiment looking at trial and error and working with the environment around me, so these images may or may not be featured in my 30 second animation. Stay tuned to find out more.