...ACTION!

After a long couple of months listening to all the problems with our venue, trying to raise money for the venue and getting the photographs prepared trying to get prepared for the exhibition, it was finally the opening day!

Everyones work was up and we were prepared for opening at 10.30am! Here is everyones fantastic work...

My Concept for my images...

After putting the lights up we finally could finally put all our hard work out, our final photographs!

For my final photographs, I looked at Forts for the concept of 'Territory'. I photographed Fort Nelson and Fort Purbrook showing the main features of both forts and what makes them territorial.

I made my photographs look like old fashioned postcards and presented them on a black board in mounted windows on a glass table.

Here is what my final piece looked like...

Lights, camera...

Tuesday 6th December,

We all head down to The Round Tower with our mats for the floor, our work and also to meet and greet the Electricity men who were putting up the lighting rig!
Here is how it all looked...

                                                       All ready for the next day!

10 Days to go!

10 Days to go till the exhibition! All sorting out last minute things, especially me!

My first idea was to create a light table however, I changed my mind last minute and decided to window mount my images onto black mountboard into a table and put glass over the mountboard. This would save money and time!

Here are the images that I will be exhibiting in my table at The Round Tower...

Posters and flyers finished, created and printed!

Here are our Posters and Flyers for our exhibition! Getting really excited!

Visiting The Round Tower!

We visited The Round Tower on 4/11/11 as a Group as some of us hadn't seen the inside of it yet, me being one of them so I was very excited!

I was absolutely intrigued by the interior of the Building. It was beautiful and really takes your breath away. Although it looks small in Photographs, the interior is actually very big, which surprised me!

Here are some Photographs that I took of the interior of The Round Tower, enjoy...

 

Some exhibition news!

I was thinking about deleting my Twitter as I always thought that no one really took interest in what I said on there. However, Im glad I didn't! As one day I twittered to a fellow twitterer about our exhibition that is being held at The Round Tower, asking about some advertising for it.
Then out of the blue I got a tweet from Steven Piper, who works for 'Something Interesting' about some sponsorship for our exhibition. Great!

A couple of phone calls later and we recieved sponsorship from Steven, which we are all very grateful for!

Here is the Something Interesting website ... http://somethinginteresting.co.uk/

And this is Steven's blog... http://pippiper.com

Shit London!

An interesting Lecture that was on a blog called 'Shit London'.

'Shit London' is a blog set up by Patrick who first of all just started taking some photographs of some shit and funny things in London. Patrick came in and talked to us all about his blog that I found brilliant! His success on such a simple thing amazed me and he has even had a book released on 'Shit London'.

 

Patricks 'Shit London' is not only his own photographs but the people of London's own photographs of what is shit around London! The Photographs are a breath of fresh air from looking at some photographs in depth and discovering meaning. They make you smile and laugh!

Here is Patrick's website http://shitlondon.co.uk/

It will cheer you up and make your day!

More news about Fundraising and Sponsorship...

Having talked with my group about getting discounts with the posters, flyers etc, we also thought Moo cards would be great to give out at the exhibition as it would promote ourselves after the exhibition had finished.

Therefore, I contacted Moo to see if we could get a discount if 10 of us brought there cards to give out at the exhibition. Here is the email that I sent them... 

Dear Madam or Sir,

I am a Photography student in my second year at the University of Portsmouth. For our Level 2 Brief, we are required to create a piece of photographic work which explores the photographic representation of territories. We are also required to work in groups and find a venue to display our work in, in which we have found The Round Tower in Old Portsmouth to do this. We are in a group of 10 people and are advertising our exhibition through posters and flyers. However, we would also like to promote ourselves at the exhibition through moo cards. To help with the cost of doing this, we were wondering whether you could create a discount for 10 people who would like to create moo cards for our exhibition and for general use. If you would like to know more about us and our exhibition, please let me know. Many Thanks, Lauren Whatling.

 Here is the reply that I got from Moo...

Dear Lauren,
 
Thank you for getting in touch with the MOO Team.
 
It's great that you would like to use MOO products to help fundraise for such a good cause.
 
We receive regular charity requests and rather than just giving away products to a few; 

we try to help as many as possible with a discount.
 
We would be happy to support your particular initiative by giving you a discount on your order. 

Here is a promocode for 10% off your order (be careful - it will only work on one order).
 

It would also be great to hear how you get on and see some photos of the cards in action - we

 always love seeing our stuff out in the wild.
 
You can also add photos to our Flickr pool - who knows - it might help get you some more sponsorship!
 http://www.flickr.com/groups/moo/
 
Wishing you lots of luck.
 
Please feel free to contact us again if you have further questions.
 
Best Regards,
 
Lewis Dan
Service Agent - MOO

I also emailed the Coop about Sponsoring our exhibition and this is what they replied with...

Dear Ms Whatling

Thank you for contacting the Co-operative Careline regarding a donation from your local store for your exhibition.

Unfortunately, I am unable to authorise this for you. On your next visit, if you provide a written request to the Duty Manager, they will be able to give you a decision.

Thank you once again for your email, and if I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Therefore I have written them a lovely letter describing our exhibition and why we need a donation :)

Great News!

On October 13th Tyran got us a location for the exhibition by securing us The Round Tower in Old Portsmouth!

Here is what Tyran told us...

'hi everyone, i have great news. round tower is basically ours for exhibition. i have said to them bout 3 days duration for exhibition. a day to set up, day for show, day for packing up. we can have for longer if need be. there will be no charge for use so should i take up the offer and secure it. need everyones opinion asap bout this location'

We all agreed to getting The Round Tower as this would be a fantastic place for an exhibition! The building itself would link to my images perfectly as I have photographed Fort Purbrook, a historical Fort in Portsmouth which protected against French Land invasions during the war! Here are some of my images...

  Here is The Round Tower in Old Portsmouth, where we will be exhibiting...

              

 

'New Walls'

Having had a talk from past students on their exhibitions, I was particularly fascinated by the students that exhibited in Pubs down Albert Road. The One Eyed Dog pub liked their idea so much that they have asked them to ask other students about putting their work in their. They had the opening night last thursday, in which I seized the opportunity to go to!   

The theme was Portsmouth and the photographs were really good! Overall it was a great night socialising with my classmates and seeing other peoples work! :)

More Fundraising and Sponsors!

To help me with the fundraising and sponsors, Justyna has got in touch with the Manager of Tesco who is also involved with Photography, to see if we could get some sponsorship from him :). 

 Victoria also contacted her manager who would be happy to donate some money towards our exhibition :).

We also all put £10 towards the exhibition which makes £100, in which £10 has already come out as Lauran has set up a website which only cost £10 for a year! So all is going well!

What have I been doing to help with the exhibition?

Well, my part to play in the exhibition is to help with Funding. As I am very addicted to Ebay, I have decided to sell some unwanted items of mine on there and have asked all the other members of my group to also give me some of their unwanted stuff so I can sell it on there :).

I ended up selling a few bits and pieces and made £17 out of it! Woop! Victoria then brang me in a perfume to put on there and it ended up selling for £5!

Justyna also gave me some books and jewellery to sell...       

And Chris also gave me an item to sell :)


I also contacted Denise Callender asking whether she knew anyone we could contact for fundraising. She kindly emailed back with this reply...

Hi Lauren

Professional Practice fund I mentioned today, workshop is shown in link below 26 Oct and compulsory attendance for all applications for funding.  p.s. I enjoyed the presentations.

http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/faculties/cci/promoteself/

 Kind Regards

Denise Callender

CCi Promotions Manager

This requires a pitch made by the whole group about our exhibition and the team will then decided whether we get special funding or not. We are still debating whether we have time to do this.     

Our powerpoint presentation...

Here is the powerpoint presentation we created to show the rest of our class what we have been up to on creating our exhibition!