Summer Project

"You can find inspiration in everything (and if you can't look again)" - Paul Smith

Inspirations 
My summer project is going to be a visual record of my summer and the influential things that occur through out these few months. It began with a 3 week trip in Croatia, thus allowing a vast array of new images and sites.

Water
On my trip I spent a large amount of my time either in water or near by, swimming, diving, on boats etc. From being so close to the sea, it has given me a great starting point for my project. I am going to base my work on water, the patterns it can create and the colours it reflects. My photography is from above the surface and also from under water.

The Final Video

We wanted to create a video that showed the patchwork cultures of Manchester, with the use of temporary clothes that can instantly change. This idea was made a reality with the use of projections, using animations of our drawings and samples. The video really came to life with the use of a dancer, it enhanced the bright colours and brought it all together with the addition of music. Overall our group really worked together and created a unique and collaborative video that we are all proud of.

Final Filming

Today we shot our final video, using a dancer to be our model for our projections. After our last shoot we have gone back to our idea board and decided we needed a blank canvas for the projections to be applied onto. From this our model has been styled in a all in one white suit completed with a white mask. These are some stills taken from the shoot, the projections were very clear and vibrant and worked well with our dancers shapes.

Urban Media Festival Cologne

When looking into videos that show projections on bodies, I was shown this short film from the Urban Media Festival Cologne from 2009, from a friend who took part in this project. This video was made with the collaboration of a few people from around Europe, all taking elements of their cultures and creating one final piece. It has shown me what a group of strangers can accomplish when working together, which is similar to our group work. We have all brought our individual styles and ideas together and have created a concept that involves us all equally.

Filming in the studio

After filming in Hotspur House we realised that we needed to use a room that was completely dark. We wanted our video to give the illusion that the model was walking across the screen. The aim is to have a few models walking across with the projection and layer these together into one piece of film.

The set up inside the studio worked out exactly as we had planned, the projection was clear, the background didn't detect the projection and the model looked as those his clothes were virtual. This took a lot of blacking out and moving furniture around, creating the space that was needed.

These still frames show how the projections show up on the model, using our images and samples to create unified clothes. We all agreed that the video should be set to music, but at this moment we are undecided on which song will fit best to our images. We used "Skrillex - Kill Everbody" for this sample shoot, it fits well but isn't completely what we envisioned for it.