Meet our second guest speaker
Grace Shepherd is currently a master’s student at the National Film & TV School, studying set design. Grace will be giving a talk about how concept collages and art can be used as a methodology and prompt to start a project. As well as discussing how her skills that she learnt in her undergraduate architecture degree at Oxford Brookes, such as creating illustrations and narrative, have translated into her current course. We're looking forward to hearing Grace's presentation on Wednesday 19th May. More information about Grace's work can be found on her Instagram @gracejanetshepherd

DAY 2

To start off the day, we looked through all of the video storyboards that were created yesterday for our video themes (architectural photography, sketch models and sketching). By talking through the various storyboards that the BA and MArch team members had produced, we were able to see the similarities between them. Now that we've agreed on which storyboards, we're going to film, we're spending the rest of the day filming.

DAY 2

Filming has started. Here's a quick look at the behind the scenes of the filming for our Architectural photography workshop video. We're excited to see what the final outcome will look like!

DAY 4

Working from home, we've had to find interesting solutions to get clean audio for the voice over of our videos. Here is one of the MArch members of our team recording the voice over for the photography workshop video.

DAY 6

Filming has started for our final video, a workshop on how to make both digital and physical portfolios for applying for architecture. Here's a quick look behind the scenes. We're excited to see the final outcome!

DAY 6

To start off the day, the video subgroup created a series of storyboards for the portfolio workshop video. By talking through the various storyboards that the BA and MArch team members produced, we were able to see the similarities between them. This resulted in the combined storyboard, which you can see in this post. Now that we've agreed on the storyboard, we're spending the rest of the day filming.

DAY 8

Alongside the architecture workshop videos, we are also creating a series of personal journeys into architecture videos. One of the MArch students (Cameron) has set up a small booth to film his personal story.

DAY 8

We have all been learning new skills during MSA Live. For example, Wan, from BA1, has been learning how to make videos look like cartoons in adobe after effects. The video she has produced so far looks amazing and we can't wait to see the final outcome!

DAY 9

We're now in the final stages of video editing, ready for the video premier session this afternoon. This screen shot is taken from the 'how to make a digital portfolio in PowerPoint' video that BA student Satish is currently working on. Satish choose to use PowerPoint to show how a portfolio can be made in software easily available to high school students. In particular students who are looking to apply for creative courses, such as architecture.

DAY 9

Premier and Pop-corn!

This afternoon we had our final premier to showcase all the video tutorials produced by the group on the theme of architectural portfolios, as well as presenting the publication. All the BA students produced amazing videos and really pushed their own boundaries to learn new skills. We can't wait to send off the videos to the MakeBank tomorrow.