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In today's session, I began by starting a completely new unit which was called the Artefact Unit. This unit is very different to the Performance and the Campaign unit. This is because I and everybody else will be working individually. I personally think this would be challenging for me because I have been working in a group or in pairs throughout the CRAM Media course. I have rarely worked as an individual. Also, this unit is mainly about art. Mr Hind told me that we will be creating our own pieces of art. However, our art has to be three dimensional. This meant I have to use sculptures, etc. Plus, we have to accompany this with our own photography. Unfortunately its not that simple. We will be creating 'wet photography' (basically black and white photographs). Our main task is to create your own piece of art including pieces of 
photography and 3D art which expresses our feelings and also shares a point. I already had ideas whizzing through my head in seconds. Although I had loads of ideas, I am going to have a hard time choosing one. I might have to talk to Mr Hind about this. But first of all, I needed a point, one of my ideas in my head was a point about teeth (I really do not know why I came up with that, it just came in my head!)
The film camera only has a 26 picture space. Not only that, we were given a word and we had to take pictures that correspond to that word. Our word was 'pattern'. I thought this was a hard word because there was not many patterns to choose from in the school and outside the school. Plus, we had to take them in a professional way (by fiddling with the focus, exposure, zoom, etc). I knew this was going to take a very long time. When you take a picture, you have to check the shutter speed every time. If the shutter speed is too fast, on the screen comes a red + sign. If the shutter speed is too slow, on the screen comes a red - sign. When you get the shutter speed right, it comes up with a green spot. It functions differently in different lighting. Everything is done manually in every picture, a digital camera does it for you. I think I took some good pictures. Unfortunately, we only took seven. After shooting, we headed back to the photography room to develop, fix and wash the film, plus dry it.
because the film will be ruined if it gets exposed in sunlight or any kind of light. I cut the film, reeled it and put it into the box. This was difficult because you had to put your hands into the sleeves of the lightproof bag, only doing these task with only the sense to touch, not see. Then I took it out and put some developer inside the box. I had to wait seven minutes and shake occasionally. Then, I poured it out and added the fix. I had to do the same but wait four minutes. After that, I poured that out and washed the film for ten minutes. Finally I took the film out and it was completely negative so it cannot get exposed to sunlight. I put it in the drying container. I have to wait until next week to take the film out.
Finally, I had to do some background/artwork research about some famous artists. The three artists were called Tracy Emin (famous for her bed sculpture), Damien Hirst (famous for cutting animals in half) and Antony Gormley (famous for his metal sculptures). All three artists have the same thing in common, they like to do three dimensional art. The three were unusually interesting for some reason as some of their pieces are quite strange.
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