Eoin Killigrew

Second year at LSAD. Hello!

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Wahey, some droplets

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Story Brief.

For my project based around “Story”, I’ve decided to craft a new narrative for every post I make on here. This way I can explore the nature of narrative itself, through various different works, themes and PFV mediums. Be it a story I’ve crafted or a snapshot in time assembled from old film found in an attic, I feel a lot more open and free to pursue any kind story I’d like by doing things in this manner.   As a result I’ve learned more about the many ways to tell a story - particularly through related images shown together or through video work.

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Edward Weston

Edward Weston (1886-1958) is considered "one of the masters of 20th century photography". He often stuck to larger-format cameras to capture his works. From still life, to portraiture, to landscapes, he was known for his extensive work in all subjects, something I quite admire as I myself love to experiment with different types subjects in photography. 

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Some behind the scenes of “Number Station Listener”. Shown above is the audacity file I used for the radio message. It was a recording of Calliope music, my voice and radio static, all blended together. Also above is a screenshot of my project file in DaVinci Resolve, showing my editing timeline and the various clips I used to create the video.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), is considered a pioneer of street photography. He captured scenes in such a masterful, candid way. He subscribed to the idea of capturing the decisive moment. Quoted saying: "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment" - something I really resonate with. Nothing staged, just subjects and their actions caught in the action as they happen.

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A quick video I made after making the audio heard from 1:00-1:54 about someone tuning into a numbers station, receiving and decoding an order.

The audio piece is inspired by recordings of real numbers staions that exist, particularly “The Lincolnshire poacher” - a numbers station that operated from the mid 1960′s until around June 2008.

My microphone did stop working while recording the last two clips so I made do with adding sound effects of a match lighting to one and the song to the other. Numbers station audio was made using a recording of a calliope and my voice, heavily filtered and overlaid on top of recordings of my own radio’s static using Audacity to sound like a radio transmission.

All video was recorded on my Canon 6D MKII and edited using DaVinci Resolve 17.

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Photography. Dungarvan by dusk.

I haven’t been very motivated lately but I decided to get out my tripod and go for a walk around my town. It got very misty which was a little surreal to see rolling in. Wandering the streets, I met saw some sights, met a few characters and had a run-in with the Gardaí. Overall I’d say it went well! 

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A partial storyboard for an idea I’ve had bouncing around in my head for a while now. Weather permitting I’ll actually be able to go out and shoot it!

Song is Whitewoods - Beachwalk

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These photos came from the former home of a photographer who passed away around 10 years ago. My friend’s parents bought the house and during a clearout of the attic and garage, found some rolls (in various states) that slipped through the cracks when the property was being emptied to sell.

The photographer’s prowess in photography allows for an excellent view into the past. It also leaves us with questions. Where is all of this taking place? Perhaps somewhere in Ulster if we go off of what appears to be a parade. But were they all taken in the same area, or spread out? What’s with the giant ball?!

I developed these in a Rondinax Daylight Developing Tank in my sink, using Black and White developer. I let it develop longer than normal to compensate for film losing it’s reactivity over time. I then scanned them using my Epson V350 scanner.

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Found Film

I enjoy buying old cameras for cheap, I enjoy it even more when they still have a roll inside! I often hand develop these forgotten negatives to see what kind of story I can garner from them. What were the events recorded on them that never got a chance to be remembered through developed photographs?

Going forward, expect to see a few of these on my page. I think they fit the idea of a “story” quite well.

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Photography:

Burning of the Books

These books were leftovers from my secondary school that couldn’t be sold or handed down to my younger siblings (old exam papers, obsolete editions of textbooks, etc). So I decided I’d get some use out of them one final time.

Watching the fire plume, swell and twist in the darkness of night was mesmerising.

Taken with my Canon 6D MKII and edited with Rawtherapee.

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My Statement for my "Movement" project.

Starting off, I had no idea on what I wanted to do in regards to the brief.

After going on a walk and observing the tide, I decided to focus my project on water and how it interacts with different stimuli.

Inks, impacts, droplets - all the different reactions a liquid can have are fascinating when frozen in a moment of time.

I think I got great results considering the materials I had on hand.

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PFV:

Some GIFS made using the earlier photos during my photoshoot yesterday.

The colour temperature is off, but I couldn't justify editing all the frames to change it. I reckon it still gives the same impression.

Photos taken on my Canon 6D MKII and GIFs made using Google Photos' utilities.

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Graphic Design: Another iteration/take on my masked character again, this time in a more chaotic, scratchy style. This was drawn in Krita using my drawing tablet.

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PFV: More experimenting with water in larger containers. I found an old metal globe in the attic and decided to give it a go. I quite like the splashes and droplets going everywhere. Images were taken on my Canon 6D MKII and touched up using Rawtherapee.

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Graphic Design / Print Physical sleeves. The video demonstrates the effect I wanted to happen while the sleeve was being pulled from an outer cover. Unfortunately I ran out of materials and could not fully finish it. Fortunately, I think it still gives a good idea of what I was going for: a descending / ascending striped effect. The second one (with the pyramid) I wanted to see if I could line up a piece or artwork on the inner sleeve underneath a cutout in the outer sleeve. I think I was able to line things up pretty well. These pieces were designed using canva, printed  on photo paper and assembled using lots of superglue. The pictures and video were taken on my Canon 6D MKII.

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Graphic Design. Tried my hand at designing some simple record sleeves for some ‘45s I had laying about. Since our brief is “Movement” I tried to incorporate the movement of sliding the record in and out in some way. I decided on a striped strobe effect for the first one and a simple geometric pattern on the second Since I have previous experience using Canva.com I used that.