planning for the art gallery production

1. Art Gallery Project - Pre-
Production
Adam Lepard

2. Written work for options:

3. Resources
• Cameras x4 (Two from home, two from college)
• Tripod x4 (Two from home, three from college)
• Light x2
• Large microphone
• At least 6 batteries
• 4 SD cards

4. Reflection
• What am I making?
• My part within this project is to create a voxpop-style interview asking the public questions about what
they think makes a masterpiece and others like it. It will be much more informal than a traditional
interview. We are doing a video in this style in an attempt to reach a younger audience than who would
traditionally be interested in art. Below shows the style of interview we are going for top down. Camera
B will be free to move around if needed, whereas camera A will be the main camera and stay still at all
times I will be where the interviewee is.
A
B
I
• Where will it appear?
• We are not certain yet, however it most likely will appear on the social media places of the art
gallery.
Options:
Dead Center

5. Experiments
We planned our layout for when we will conduct our interviews, experimenting with
different camera angles until we found some angles we were happy with. This ended up
being the final layout, with a third camera further back that captures not only the
interviewee, but both the main cameras too.

6. Experiments
This view from the interviewee’s angle was useful as we need to make sure that the
lights aren’t blinding, so we put them at various strengths and angles to make it
affect them as little as possible when conducting the interview.

7. Experiments
A lot of our experiments were to do with light. We varied it to see the results and how
using it differently looks, depending on the harshness or location of the light.

8. Experiments
The next day we concentrated more on getting the perfect lighting in different
locations. Rather than just setting up a location, we practiced with various
angles and light intensities to get the perfect look for when we go forward with
the interviews.

9. Possible Questions
• What would you consider iconic/ a masterpiece?
• What do you think makes a masterpiece?
• After showing them the painting, ask them if they would see this as a
masterpiece and why.

11. Interview Timetable

12. Permission Form

13. Event: thursday 16th – friday 17th january
THURSDAY NIGHT (tbc)
Preview event (paid for by ymt)-
• Press night- invite press, york mix, york link etc
• Refreshments (not allowed in exhibition rooms)
• Show our videos for the first time (LED screen?)
• Photobooth (be the masterpiece)
• 5minute masterpiece (copy/draw masterpiece- personal or
professional/ w twist)
• Olivia's stuff
• Volunteers talking about paints?

14. Mini Masterpiece
• We will split up the bouts painting using the high-res
image to get good quality zoomed in pictures then
number each one and cut out squares of card to match
the scale.
• We will get members of the public to do a square each,
then at the end we can put all the pieces together to
“make THE masterpiece”.
• This will take place on both the Thursday night and Friday.
• However, there’s a twist. To make it more tricky, we will
have a things like kaleidoscope goggles and giant pencils
to try and make just drawing more fun, exciting and
engaging. Its also a challenge which will be appealing to
most people.
• Another option is to do it in pairs where one person has to
describe to their partner what is on their section of the
painting and they will draw and colour it as best they can.
Materials
•large high res picture printed out
•Card
•Pencils
•Coloured pens/pencils
Where in the gallery?
•Olivia’s room?
•Studio?
•Floor puzzle bit

15. Be The Masterpiece
• The plan is to set up a photographer (ollie) and a small space to do the photo shoot. We will focus on 8 main paintings
and get participants to try and recreate the chosen painting with the help of props and costume pieces. These photos
will then be emailed to the people in photos. (free)
• Booth/ no booth? Do we need to make one?
• Where will we do it?
• On the preview event only or Friday too?
• Costume hire?
• Share costumes with Magdalena
• Choose paintings to focus on recreate in photos and mini masterpieces)
• Olivia's art work in the background? Use printed fabric as backdrop?
• Make a form where we get emails etc. for each photo
• Focus paintings:
• Saints Catherine of Siena, Ursula an Dominic.
• A jeering crowd:
• The virgin and child with an angel, saint George and a donor
• A family of the forest
• Benaiah
• Rembrandt’s studio
• St Luke drawing the virgin Mary

16. Inspiration From a Masterpiece
• Traditional with a modern twist.
• How it inspired Chris cooks work putting a modern twist (adding apaches and jets into he work) and building upon
Bouts’ pictures. Use an old style camera filter mixed with new effects (masking, glitch effects etc.)
• What Chris did.
• Chris cook is a contemporary artist that took these Dutch golden age pieces and recreated them with a modern twist.
Some of his changes are very visible with the inclusion of fighter jets and UAVs. There are some more subtle ones
such as the inclusion of a birdcage in NEED INFO and NEED INFO. This is a great way of getting younger (16-25)
people to appreciate the old work as it is a look at where this modernized piece came from.
• Look into the artists mind.
• How it inspired a variety of other artists to look at portraits from a different perspective (behind the scenes, in the
studio, at work). at work, acknowledging the work that goes into it. Art students at work. Their rooms, the corridor -
steady cam down there.
• Where it came from?
• The slither of his workshop in on the side, where you can see his paints and his easel with the original painting on.
This was the first look into an artists studio in a mainstream painting. It gave the people a look into the work of
himself as he drew saint Luke with his own face and based the studio space on his own.
• Why?
• During the Dutch Golden Age there was a focus shift from religious icons to secular subjects such as artists in their
studios, landscapes and narrative art. A lot of these took inspiration form the Bouts piece especially in the artist
studios work with the gallery displaying work by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Leonard Rosoman and Rosalba Carriera. Its
a form of self expression and the artist can manipulate the image to match his/her feelings and the tone of the piece