Visual Narratives Briefing (RAIN)

Today we had our module briefing for the visual narrative briefing which was SO exciting. It sounds like something I'm going to really enjoy as I love telling stories in any capacity, especially through my work. For this first week we were told we would be learning about research.

Todays task:
We got put into a group of 4 and were sent out into Leeds to do research on the city and record anything we saw, heard, smelt, etc in anyway we could think of. Me and my group went all round Leeds (the long way, oops) to places like the Corn Exchange, the market, and the Light centre. We recored sounds via mark making in our books, I also got some video and voice recordings and we did some sketches from the things we saw. 

These were some of my favourite outcomes:

My recorded map of our route on the left and an index of shorthand marks to indicate different sounds on the right

A very tasty bagel

1st sketch inside the Corn Exchange done in pencil

Although today was really rainy and cold, it was so exciting to go around the city and just see what we saw, its reminded me I need to take some time to just sit and look at whats around me every now and then. Now were going to refine our research and do a screen print as a group, thats after we've been inducted into the print room tomorrow which I'm so excited for.