SOME MORE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ROTA 2009

Stooges.






Rare things.

All you need is LOVE.....

This could be the EYE IN THE SKY.

HAPPY EASTER.

Hello Rotanews group:

I would like to wish you a happy and nice Easter holidays.

I dont forget you and I will try to send to your schools all the pictures we have token on our workshop last Rota week.

Greetings from Spain.

Ricardo Cordero.

ROTANEWS GROUP

22. March 2009 Ceremony:

After the students arrived in Tres Cantos, it all began with a wonderful ceremony in the assembly hall. The students come from five different countries: Germany, UK, Spain, Belgium and Netherlands. Every country has prepaired a video for the others, to show who they are and what they expect rota to be. After it we had a great big buffet, every country brought typicall food with them.

Arriving in Tres Cantos:

Assembly Hall Opening Ceremony:

 


 

The buffet:

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23 March 2009 First day with ROTAnews:
Every morning we begin our workshop with a little walk around the courner, of course there we also take photos ;) for example of the landscape. At the first day with ROTAnews we learned how to make portraits and we also learned how to make double exposure photos.

Walk:

 


 

Portraits:

Double exposure:

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24 March 2009 Experiments with light and landscape photos:
We walked around the park and took photos of the landscape. After comming back we start experimenting with light and the time of exspure time.

Walk / Landscape:

Experiments with light:

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25 March 2009 Visiting Madrid:
All ROTA members from all wokrshops visited Madrid. At first we took a short walk around Madrid, after this we visited the famous Padro museum. Then we had a short guided tour throw the most important buildings and places in Madrid. And at least we went shopping.

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26 March 2009 Experiments with black light, TV and selection of the best photos:On Thursday we had our last lesson of photogrophy, we tried to make photos with black light. Also a famous TV channel came to the school to report about the ROTA project. In the end we had to select the best photos for the exhibition.

27 March 2009 making off and exhibition day:

OUR PLANNING.

ROTANEWS is a workshop to experiment with audiovisual, documentation and artistic creativity.

The starting point is going to be CHANGE THE CLIMATE in order to think about what we would like to draw, paint or photography, which sounds would be interesting to record or what other levels could contribute to change the climate.

Thus it seems necessary to define what is or what could mean for each of us THE CLIMATE. We can talk about our ‘personal climate’: to think about our home environment or social, economic or political environment, about the people around us. We can search for empathy with others and think about different perspectives or even complement them.
To communicate our ideas we have different audiovisual media: drawings, photography, writing in tetralingüal texts, sound and digital recordings, etc.

Every morning during the first thirty minutes, if ‘meteorological climate’ is fine, we are going to walk to get a breath of air to our brain and get ready to start our activity.


MONDAY 23rd and TUESDAY 24th

- Walk

- Viewing of authors works: photographs (my favourite photographers), short movies, music in Spanish and spots (publicity)

We are going to use different web pages: www.google, the school web page, blogs from different departments, works from students in the arts field.

- Portraits and self-portraits
We are searching for a true smile; smiling is healing and therapeutic

- Draw, take photographs, record videos on our environment:
The play ground, central park, other workshops, Tres Cantos

- Posters about:
The climate change, the business world, sexual education, education for equality between sexes. www.consumehastamorir.com.

- Scripts for publicity spots or fiction short movies about one of the above topics.

WEDNESDAY 25th

A good opportunity to watch and look at the city. You can draw and take photographs.
Very important: You should do a security copy of all the material recorded every day once passed to the laptop.



THURSDAY 26th

- Walk
- A first selection of materials, photos, videos, etc for the final exhibition.
Taking Pictures, videos , editing

- Handling with digital files:
Storing files on themes and sessions: photographies, rounds, music copyleft, videos

- Handling of photographic files and pre-selection of the most interesting images:
For Internet, to be impressed, for an audiovisual,…

- Visit to the place where the last exhibition is going to take place
And come back to school

- Brain storming and proposals for the exhibition. Reheasals:
Rotanews with two or more interviewers, they will explain their experience (10-15mn)


FRIDAY 27th

- Walk
- Last impressions and editing , montage
Moving to the ‘theatre’ to get the final staging and montage of the exhibition.
Coming back to school and last rehearsal.





Available equipment at the Arts Department:


2 digital cameras (Photo and video)
3 digital video cameras ( MINI DVD, DVD, in hard disk)
2 computers and two laptops
Memory cards, printer
Suggested computer programmes:
Photoshop, window movie maker, Mero Vision...

Students are invited to explain the ones they know and download the free ones they could need.

WELCOME

Hello:

Rebeca, Michalina, Boris, Florence, Margaux, Christin, Lisa, Simone, Mirthe, Stephanie, Raquel, Patricia, Mario and David.

Good flight to all these students will come next 22 March and thank you.

I will hope we enjoy!!