Future Fashions (Manchester)

Our Final Film ....

Projection Stills

The following images illustrate the final stages of development.  As a group we spent monday completing our final film, and are currently in the process of editing.  In reflection the stills portray our 'patchwork culture' effectively; the designs evident in each projection depict colour, pattern and texture we initially discovered from our searches.  The amalgamation of designs are fluent, complimentary and convincing and we believe such stills will compliment our digital outcome well in the form of large scale prints.  To date, taking part in the group task has allowed me to develop knowledge in relation to digital design; I am now more aware of this pratice as a concept, and will transfer such skills for future tasks.  Such knowledge has influenced my own working method from inital research through to outcome and has significantly effected my development.

 

 

( The collection above focuses on the significance of individual drawing, each still highlights the layering and integration of a range of themes, fullfilling our inital aims; creating designs that interpret a 'clashing of cultures'.)

Video Development

After several failing attempts to master our projection concept successfully, we booked a large room with black out curtains for another attempt.  Frazer had produced some mock layered prints from our growing collection of drawings, that we could use to test our theory.  It soon became clear the prints that were more saturated, and that contained stronger colours, gave a more effective projection, this is evident in the proceeding images, even from stills the success of colour is evident.  We continued to experiment filming the projection from several angles, and eventually managed to position the model close enough to the projector and the camera, however at a very difficult angle to ensure the projection(that does actually appear on the floor to the right of the model) is not evident for filming. The process proved time consuming, the images and video below illustrate how much improvement has occurred from last week, however in our opinion does not reflect the amount of work involved in reaching this breakthrough!  This we hope will be evident in our final video!It proved really difficult to avoid the projection 'projecting onto things behind the model', I feel the results below are extremely successful the projection is almost exact in terms of following the shape of the body!
      In terms of our images we aim to produce more in the next few days, continuing with the layered idea, however will convert the stills into some form of moving sequence to enhance the quality of our final outcome.  We have agreed all digital prints need to be replicated, each replicated version should have increased saturation, contrast levels, and reduced exposure levels to achieve the best projection results when filming.  We hope to print large scale examples of our most successful prints to exhibit at MOSI,  this is why we will replicate all prints so the originals can be kept for this.

AIMS FOR WEEK BEGINNING MON 7TH MAY .....

. Contact dance department, circulate email to secure 4 dancers for filming end of this week/beginning of next.

. Buy all in one white suits for dancers to wear.

. Complete/edit all final digital prints.

. Meet with Mary to discuss editing of final video.

. ........ FILM FINAL VIDEO!

(Projection 1 )

(Projection 2)

Walter Van Beirendonck - ' Dream the World Awake'

After a recent tutorial with Julie, we discovered the work of fashion maverick Walter Van Beirendonck.  We were particualry drawn to his recent retrospective at the Antwerp Fashion Muesuem, exhibiting his finest pieces of photography and film.  The following video provided great inspriration for our developing ideas. It immediatly entises its audience and bears a simple yet quirky and effective structure.  We all agree we hope to try and emulate the idea of models approaching on some sort of moving treadmill with a stark white background, however we would have the outfits appearing as a projections rather than actual garments.  The bold use of colour is also significant, should we consider this for our film? ......

http://showstudio.com/project/dream_the_world_awake#fashion_film