Our tutorial began a little slowly. Between us we have managed to collect a good variety of photographic research for the project, within each of our individual areas. However, we have been struggling to think of a way to push our project further. We talked about creating a video piece, ready for when we exhibit at MOSI. We looked at various work, from stop-frame animation to pieces that have been created to promote different fashion designers.
For a while, we've been toying with the idea of using projection in our piece, as a means of transferring our work (prints and knit samples etc.) on to clothing, without actually having to physically apply the designs. From this idea, we decided that we needed to try out the concept, and see if it would actually work. We recorded a short film using our photographic research, found a projector and then projected the film on to a mannequin. This is the result:
The idea works. It needs a lot of fine-tuning, but it does work. Now that we have the basic concept down, we can begin to consider the samples that we're going to create, the images that we're going to create, and the film that we're going to make from all of this. For the video, we think that we'd like to shoot it in maybe a large warehouse, or perhaps even Hotspur House- basically somewhere large enough so that we don't have the problem of our projection hitting the walls, instead of just our model. We think that we'd like to use a model, and have them wear an outfit that we would create ourselves. It would only have to be a very simple, white dress, so that the images projected on to it can be seen clearly, and still look effective.
We're going to create a video that features moving images of our work, put together in a sort of 'patchwork'. This video will be projected on to the dress. We will then record the images on the dress, and make another video from this. With some interesting shots and clever editing, it could look really effective. The important thing is that we create interesting designs to go on to the dress, and that we're then clever in making our final video.
For a while, we've been toying with the idea of using projection in our piece, as a means of transferring our work (prints and knit samples etc.) on to clothing, without actually having to physically apply the designs. From this idea, we decided that we needed to try out the concept, and see if it would actually work. We recorded a short film using our photographic research, found a projector and then projected the film on to a mannequin. This is the result:
The idea works. It needs a lot of fine-tuning, but it does work. Now that we have the basic concept down, we can begin to consider the samples that we're going to create, the images that we're going to create, and the film that we're going to make from all of this. For the video, we think that we'd like to shoot it in maybe a large warehouse, or perhaps even Hotspur House- basically somewhere large enough so that we don't have the problem of our projection hitting the walls, instead of just our model. We think that we'd like to use a model, and have them wear an outfit that we would create ourselves. It would only have to be a very simple, white dress, so that the images projected on to it can be seen clearly, and still look effective.
We're going to create a video that features moving images of our work, put together in a sort of 'patchwork'. This video will be projected on to the dress. We will then record the images on the dress, and make another video from this. With some interesting shots and clever editing, it could look really effective. The important thing is that we create interesting designs to go on to the dress, and that we're then clever in making our final video.
