My Final Year of Uni

Last year my work was based around boxing. I am a competitive amateur boxer, and this is a massive part of my life outside of uni, so I decided to incorporate this passion with my other passion which is art. I was basically using video, and created shot videos which I projected into a dark space. These videos were all in black and white, this is just a preference of mine, I prefer photos and video to be in black and white rather then in full colour. I also think that when you are looking at movement, and what is actually going on in the footage, colour can sometimes distract, and take the viewers attention away. So to put it in black and white I feel simplifies it. Most of the work I did mainly focused on videos of me, looking at movement, and I also created prints, where I inked my gloves up and punched a white piece of card, and then inked the soles of my boots up and skipped and shadow boxed onto the card. Then I moved away from me being the subject and looked at another boxer at my club. I went away to the national quarter finals as a coach for this boy in my club Milo Clay, and unfortunately he lost. When he got back into the changing rooms I then videoed him. He was devastated, and he just sat there and cried. This piece of work was such a powerful piece of footage, this then became the main piece for my project which I played in slow motion. This project then moved away from the idea of movement and boxing and moved more into the theme of emotions, and capturing emotions. What I really liked about this piece was that it sparked emotion in the viewer and created a real deep sadness, because the emotion portrayed in the video was so intense, and was authentic, it was the real thing.