References

We found some pictures from other artists. We attempted to grasp the spark of inspiration and created the idea. The theme of the project is ‘recycling’ which make better life in our future. We collect the rubbish to build the shadow of the city and add the animation.

Final piece.

Final piece:

Our first attempt when building the city, looked to perfect to represent a pile of rubbish. So we decided to create the buildings from smaller pieces of rubbish and then through using a light we were able to see how the silhouette would look.

Gemma Honeybell

Experimenting with the projector.

Experimenting with the projector.

We decided to experiment with the projector before our exhibition. This allowed us to see how our animation would look on the wall and what the angles in the room would do to distort the image. It also enabled us to see the distances the light would need to be for it to create the perfect silhouette of the rubbish.  

Gemma Honeybell

Bird's Animation

I do some tests and finish this animation. Thank you for sharing some views with me,I amended it. Is this bird more looks like dieing?  If anyone have some opinions, please tell me (especially for the background). I will try my best to polish it.I appreciate working with you.

Creating the final piece

Creating the final piece.

Cutting the recycling sign:

Gemma Honeybell

Rubbish City

        Keeping up with current events, Group 5 have recently decided on the final idea for our projected piece of art. We shall be creating a theme of negative human effects on the environment. We have all decided on a specific way to do this and have allocated each other tasks to perform before we meet up again.

        As part of our finished product, I have been asked to create a physical model of a city, using old boxes and bottles and pretty much anything that will do the job. It's design will be some what basic with the deliberate intention of keeping any franchise names and symbols on the front of the objects I use for the audience to clearly see. Throughout much of today I have worked on this tired city having found a huge box full of cardboard in my hallway this morning.... That was lucky! This image is not that clear right now, however I am sure that will look better when I am able to put it into the exhibition space.

Gerard Jackson

A Bird

Hi, guys I finish more than half of work now. I will try my best to accomplish and polish it. I hope you like this bird and its reddish orange color.

After Tuesday tutorial all group's members got together and had a meeting. It took long time to determine appropriate programs and made contrast through the concept analyze. the rational use of personal skills, we can raise the level of the project.

My main job is doing a video. First of all, I find lots of bird pictures for reference. I draw bird of reddish orange color and divided into different layers. Be pressed for time, I will use software to animate the motion of bird flying instead of the movement is drove frame by frame.

mingxi (michelle)

Developing Ideas

        Originally we had set our attention on 'climate change' as the moral for our final idea. Explained in a previous blog post by Gemma, this concept was too grand for us to create a story out of. The notion of climate change covers an area that would be too hard for us to interpret in a simple animation and of course we had a dead-line to meet.
        Moving on from this, we decided to make the idea smaller and focus on a more singular issue. Pollution seemed to be a more obvious choice. This way we could localize our ideas and make our exhibit easier for us to create and for the audience to understand. From this point, it was our intention to not just build a piece of art for people to look at, but to give our project meaning.
        In this way, we have communicated well as a group and have shown a professional understanding of how we must work and evolve with our ideas to finalize a project.

Gerard Jackson

Final piece.

Final piece.

The research we have done as a group has led us to create multiple ideas of our own individual interpretations of how we would like our work to look, we collectedly joined our ideas together to make a final piece we were all pleased with. This final piece is formed around a concept we all felt passionate about and saw it to be a current issue that the art world has been slow to deal with.

Concept:

Climate change.

By choosing ‘climate change’ as a concept we are able to design our work around making a thought-provoking piece that is directed towards creating a positive impact on the viewer. We do not just want our work to be aesthetically pleasing but to challenge the viewer’s opinions on human’s impact on the world.

‘Climate change’:

Noun

‘A long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature.’

Definition was found:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/climate+change.

The main motivation for our final piece came from an idea of inspiring the viewers to consider change within their own lives. We wanted them to question the way they are living and hopefully through doing so forcing them to consider the future of our world. 

Gemma Honeybell

Storyboard

Initially the group was thinking rather basically, with regards to the use of shadows. At the beginning we were only going to show an animation. A huge set of black wings projected onto the wall, moving up and down and the audience would have been able to interact with this display by walking in front of it. The light would have projected their own shadow on to the wall, making it look like they had these dark wings attached to their body. But with a bit of encouragement, the group thought beyond this and decided to make a piece of work that had much more of a statement to make. The concept of pollution is now our focus as I stated in an earlier blog post. Here is a rough piece of concept art and storyboard of how our exhibit will play. 

Just in case you can not read/see it, there are words on the building that say 'LOOK INSIDE'.

Gerard Jackson

Shadows and Rubbish

http://fotogaleri.ntvmsnbc.com/gercek-hayat-bir-copluk.html?position=0

Hey guys, the language is Turkish, but just check out the 15 photos. There is one especially about a cityscape.. See you Tuesday.

Orcun

Ideas.

These sketches are a few of my ideas for our exhibition:

I have come up with several ideas that look at using alternative materials and also exploring different angles in which a projection could be displayed.

When discussing these ideas with the rest of the group they seemed to want to direct our project around a more animated approach. So I used this idea of projecting a globe onto a round surface from above which I decided to be the bases of an animation which is focused on the concept of 'climate change'. This image below presents what I envisage the animation to look like:

On reflection I feel this animation is unrealistic in the time frame we have been given. However, I feel that ‘climate change’ as a concept could prove an interesting area to focus our work on.

Gemma Honeybell. 

Research.

Experimenting with projecting onto different materials.

Bill Viola

I decided to research into the breathtaking work of Bill Viola, he allows the viewer to experience the concept through exciting and alternative ways of seeing. He has helped me to see that projections do not just need to be seen on a wall, but we can project through or onto alternative materials such as mirrors, water or sheets. I believe we need to consider this concept when looking at our ideas for the exhibition. By displaying our concept through the materials we use we are able to incorporate and enhance our ideas through the way we decide to exhibit it. 

This image below displays a projection through several sheets of material. This concept is extremely interesting by the way it allows the viewer to walk in and out of the sheets, therefore causing them to interrupt and interact with the projection and making them feel a connection to the work.

Gemma Honeybell.

Research

Experimenting with light.

Fred Eedekens

In our work I feel we need to explore this idea of how light is able to interact with different surfaces and materials. Also we need to consider what an interruption or a distortion to the light could mean to the concept of the work. To gain a better understanding of this relationship between light and objects I decided to research into Fred Eedekens. His work is dominated towards exploring the importance of light and how it is able to construct and alter the meaning of an exhibition. I love this concept that Fred Eedekens expresses  in his work and feel we need to consider a similar outlook within our piece.

Gemma Honeybell.