Jay Tapp

Thursday, 31 May 2012

Blog 5

Locovisual

Building Researched:
Bank of New Zealand (Te Aro Branch Building)
192-194 Cuba Street

"Bank of New Zealand" photo taken by Jay Tapp

I decided to research the old Bank of New Zealand building, since I have done a bit of research on it before. This building sparked my interest because it is a good example of an old heritage building in New Zealand that in my opinion has been ruined by modern architecture. As we can see in this photo I took, it shows the whole building from side on with the new interior inside which is now Burger King. At the top of the building there's also a new apartment building thats been built directly on top of this fine piece of architecture. The Te Aro Branch of the Bank of New Zealand was constructed in 1912-1913 and was designed by William Turnbull. This building is a great example of the ancient Edwardian Baroque style, adapting the needs of commercial buildings back during that time. "Its solidity evokes dignity, stability, security - and these imposing splendid facades have a great concern for concentrating ornament to give a convincing impression of power and wealth." - NZHPT BCC Report, p2. As such, this building symbolized the greatest prosperity of British imperial and commercial power.
By introducing an entirely new storey on top of this heritage building, in my opinion ruins the value and history of it. The new apartment building that's been built on top of it, is completely different compared to the rest of it, being designed with a modern architecture style. William Turnbull would not be impressed if he'd seen this. But that's only the exterior, the interior has also been transformed drastically, with it being Burger King. The lighting has been changed as well along with the value of the building in the present day.

Main resources:

Garnett, O. (2002). Living in Style: A Guide to Historic Decoration and Ornament.
London, National Trust Enterprises Ltd.

Gatley, J. (1996). Bank of New Zealand Te Aro Branch.
Wellington, New Zealand.

Other resources:

Heritage Building Search. (n.d.). Retrieved from.
http://www.wellington.govt.nz/services/heritage/details.php?id=238&m=building&p=0

Bank Of New Zealand (Te Aro Branch Building). (n.d.). Retrieved from.
http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=1338

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Group Work

Conflict Records clashes the formal elegance of classical music and the distorted chaos of dubstep to create a new genre of music aimed at 17 to 28 year olds. Through our advertisement we are showing a literal conflict of the ornament smashing against the graffitied wall to establish contrast between the two diverse music genres we combine. The music we have chosen is “River flows in you Dubstep Remix” by “Yiruma” because it best represents the essence of music Conflict Records would produce. Instead of representing our slogan “Hold onto your snapback”in a strict literal form, we have referenced it in a more abstract way, this allows our advertisement to subconsciously bridge the gap between our two advertising medias.

Group: Ryan, Hannah, Natalie, Jay

Monday, 28 May 2012

Light

Final Images
Contrasted Wellington

The main keywords I pursued were contrast, focus, lighting, abstract and emotion. In all honesty I wasn’t sure on how my project was going to turn out, since I was doing it all in black and white. But the end result looked amazing and I am happy with my final images. I shot all my photos in colour at first then desaturated them later in photoshop. I had to change my camera settings throughout my shoots as well to give off different amount of light in each image, playing around with the ISO and shutter helped with this.

Light

Third and Fourth Shoot

Light

Proposal Update

By discovering Paul Politis, I completely changed the style that my project will be shot. Paul specializes in black and white photography that would work well at night. This then gave me the idea of a contrasted style series of photos, where all my photos were black and white and were taken at night. I wanted to portray the areas of Wellington where during the night, the light source would give off an emotional kind of feeling to it, showing this through light and such things as patterns, shapes and shadows. Most of my images I plan to be still life but I am contemplating including light trails in a couple photos as well, just to show the street side of Wellington and how the light from the street is contrasted from the background, which I'm hoping is just plain black. My main idea was that at night, the walk from the centre of town to the waterfront is always an interesting journey itself. I realized how the light source was very minimal in some parts but yet shined onto a certain part of the area/objects. For example a lone street light in the middle of a car park just shining down on one spot.

Precedents and Research

Paul Politis