I implemented some small improvements to my first cut after my troubleshooting tutorial with Alice-Mae. This, along with a final sketch...

Now was time to add the new footage and cut anything I though was confusing my concept or not adding to the idea of pursuit. Then I began...

In direct response to my crit feedback, I made a re-cut of my existing footage before moving on to finding new objects and scenarios to...

I began to put the footage I had filmed into one clip of 5 separate mini narratives. Scroll down to see the outcome of this round of...

Today I finalised my idea that I want to pursue as my final piece, and also did a few more tests with an old object, the shopping bag,...

Today was the final day of free testing before I start refining my final piece idea. I wanted to test playfully and freely, so despite...

I've decided I want to portray the drama as the thing motivated by the MacGuffin, rather than the MacGuffin being the thing that...

Following the interim crit, there were lots of ideas I wanted to get testing. The first of these was my idea of a plinth to exhibit the...

I used these tests as another opportunity to use art direction to help bring focus to my MacGuffins. I am pleased with the set achieved...

The aim of these tests was to 1) document a narrative in the background and 2) bring more focus to the object, which is framed as a...

Moving away from trying to find MacGuffins occurring in real life, I decided to think of real life scenarios that can be made into short...

After a valuable pin-up where I discussed my collection of narratives about objects, I decided I needed to clarify my direction within...

I thought I'd try collecting stories from my friends outside of Kingston about objects, to see if any became MacGuffins. I sent a message...

In my most recent tutorial, it was identified that I should identify a specific tone of voice or message to convey: What specifically was...

I wanted to address the absurdity of the USA stockpiling guns and toilet roll - two very different objects driving the same human...

I wanted to use photography to glorify the toilet roll and make it look more elegant, in order to visualise the new value that people see...

I started looking at objects in real life that drive our own motivations and narratives. The most obvious example for me was money in...

Born in 1975, Noam Toran is an American artist and designer currently working in Amsterdam. For the purposes of this project, I have...

These next few research sheets begin to investigate the relationship between MacGuffins and their material existence. Using both new and...

As an initial experiment with MacGuffins, I wanted to immerse myself in the time when Hitchcock made the MacGuffin famous. Used with a...