fall 2009

I've already completed one semester of my graduate studies. Last semester I took the 3 required courses for the program and one was production based. The course was Media Practices: Concepts and was an introduction to media production. The course is designed to allow students to dabble into the various media forms: still photography, video, audio, web. It wasn't about mastering our skills in any area but more about exploring and understanding the relationships between forms.

The professor I had took the course in an interesting direction. He had us create an avatar/alter-ego/artist that would inspire our approach to the projects. The character I created is sort of extension of myself that I had created even before the class. My pseudonym is Les is More. The work that I create is essentially that...less is more.

Our first assignment was to create a logo for our artist, so here is what I came up with.

We then messed around with photography and lighting creating self-portaits and then manipulating them in photoshop.

(original)

I'm not going to share everything from the course, but yeah, we played around with photography (the top banner is actually from a photo I took for one of the projects) and audio (using ProTools..which was a bit frustrating for me because I wanted to use the program like I would FCP).

And of course video

Days in the Life from leslie canoy on Vimeo.

Now that we're caught up, I'll be updating this as I complete projects rather than putting a bunch in one post.

So stay tuned...