As my film slides
aren’t really up to a stage in which they can be exhibited, (mainly as I’m
waiting to pick up a slide projector) for the end of term exhibition, I’ve
decided to focus more so on the film as a medium in itself. I’m extremely
interested in the potential of projecting 3-dimensional objects, so therefore
I’ve been focusing on the potential of film as a sculptural material.
Unfortunately, this turned out to be extremely difficult, so I went back
briefly to using 120 film’s backing paper as I have before, however this time making a much more
complex object.
I have made a bird similar to this in past work on a larger scale, so had an idea of how I was going to construct it. I started on the body by using newspaper and masking tape, and gradually building up the shape.
I then cut a small circle into a fresh roll of film and glued the bird into this hole, as if somehow emerging from it.
In an ideal world I would like to have made a series of these, with each bird changing a little each frame, as if animated. Realistically though, that would have been extremely time consuming, and I don’t feel the same effect would have been created if I only made a few of them. The next step: attempting to project something this 3-dimensional.
I have made a bird similar to this in past work on a larger scale, so had an idea of how I was going to construct it. I started on the body by using newspaper and masking tape, and gradually building up the shape.
The rest is made entirely of the backing paper. I cut various types of feather out of the paper and then glued them on the the bird using PVA glue.
I then cut a small circle into a fresh roll of film and glued the bird into this hole, as if somehow emerging from it.
In an ideal world I would like to have made a series of these, with each bird changing a little each frame, as if animated. Realistically though, that would have been extremely time consuming, and I don’t feel the same effect would have been created if I only made a few of them. The next step: attempting to project something this 3-dimensional.