the last of the research...

After my initial research into rural locations I had made the decision to focus my project on Path Of Condie to see what more I can find out to inform my stop motion video.  I visited T-Pot Studio in the tiny hamlet and had a great time finding out more about life in Path Of Condie.

This research has, as I find it often is with research, been very helpful but for a while slightly overwhelming as I was still trying to figure out how I would take my project further with all this new information.

Most of my research photos reflect an interest in music, the countryside and people.
As I had stated in my Personal Learning Plan I would like to look into peoples perception of things, which I thought would tie in nicely with how we perceive the countryside and the people in it.

I have also just recently posted a little question about the countryside for people to answer on social media sites Ello, Facebook and Twitter.  I have also set up an email account for people to respond to privately if they don't want to post anything publicly.  The response I got through Facebook was fantastic but, I think because both my Twitter and Ello pages are new, I have had far less response on those sites.

Next week I should be starting to work on experimenting with visuals for my video and maybe even a  very short mock video with a rough story board to develop.

View from outside T-Pot Studio in Path Of Condie

the kitchen curtains 

the rare old mixing desk

Robin Wynn Evans on the guitar

green and black patch leads

some multi coloured patch leads

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.