integrated project things and stuff...BLOCK 2

As i have spoken a bit about my other projects and classes i am currently working on, i will now take you through some of my integrated project.  I am working on a project which started off as a possible 3D sculpture but has taken a dramatic turn into a stop motion film instead!

I had to work it out in my sketch book...

I realised that i'm not the best at sculpting and i also enjoy creating stop motion films much more than sculpting...i also felt that the video option fitted my concept far better than a sculpture would.

I was left with this cut out from the paper birds i had made...

My research has led me to looking at birds, in flocks, and more specifically now starlings...i've also been experimenting with various ways of animating images on screen.

ink on photocopies of hand drawn starlings...

            splattered pink ink on a hand drawn young starling...

I was also lucky enough to meet the camera less filmmaker Steven Woloshen at an exhibition and workshop celebrating the Scottish stop motion filmmaker Norman McLaren, and managed to acquire some blank 35mm film...which i have used some to paint and draw with inks onto...

petals...pink ink on 35mm film

scrubbed...black sharpie on 35mm film

washing...watery ink painted onto 35mm film, left to dry and scored into with a fine needle point.