My final film- Dancing Paint

My final film

Dancing paint

This part of the project has been challenging, but exciting. I felt it was important to use music in my film the music is from the Band Jungle and the Music is called Drops. My film has taken a long process of editing and filming but I feel the outcome is successful. The showgirl and the paint complement each other as they both look like performances. I had to match her hand gestures to the movement of the paint in water. I found this a challenge but it is visually effective and there is something quite magical about it. The showgirl in the film was easy to direct and her hand gestures and facial expressions really express the character of a show girl. What I felt it worked well with the timing of the paint to the showgirls movements. I wanted my film to represent something quite magical and fantasy like.

Process of Final Film

 Process of Final Film

Through the process of making my final film. I took a photograph as I thought it was visually interesting to capture it in one motion. I am working with a friend of mine called Nicole she is being my actress for my film. I have put glitter all over the face and stars around her cheek bones to represent a show girl look, so the projector that is shining on brings out the different colours of the glitter on her face. On the projector that I have lined up and she is standing in front of it is a glass of water with small plastic stars. I moved the glass of water around the projector as it created a shadow on the wall and across her face changing the light direction. I asked her to move like a showgirl would move doing slow and flowing movement. I captured this on film and will edit this with Final Cut Pro and layer it with the paint in water.

Painting

From my film of the paint in water, I decided to do a small painting to show what will look like on paper.

Drawings

Drawing

For these two drawings. I was inspired by an embroidery artist called Lou Gardiner, she is a Bristol based Embroidery artist which is where I come from. I am interested in her character like quality in her work I wanted to enforce this into my drawing of the CanCan girls.

Lou Gardiner

My work:

My work:

Psychedelic & Cancan girls

Paint in Water

As using inspiration from the Moulin Rouge clip of the showgirls skirts. I have made a video using a high quality SLR camera. I wanted  the video to have a mixture of inspirations of mine such as the psychedelic fashion of the 60s and the cancan girls flowing skirts from Moulin Rouge. In this video. I have used to edit Final Cut Pro I found it quite easy to use and I also attached audio music of my Dad's bands called the Toads as I feel it mixed well with the colours in the psychedelic feel to the film.

CanCan Girls

CanCan Girls

When I had the first idea to have paint in water and I was thinking about the film The Moulin Rouge and how their skirts are so vibrant and layered from different colours moving freely. It was this clip in particular that struck me for inspiration and helped me think in ways I can show paint as type of performance.

Show Girls

Show Girls

As show girls have been around since the 1800’s and have been a big part of Fairground. I started to look at other inspirations and sources where showgirls have performed. I started to look showgirls from the Moulin Rouge as ideas for my final project and I realized it was visually interesting and important for my project as I am thinking about using a showgirls presented in my film.

This video has inspired me for its vibrancy and interesting movements and shapes of the costumes. In this video, all the showgirls move in a specific way, working in time with each other and making sure they fit the timing of the music. For my final film timing is very important to me as I think going to layer two videos on top of each other, but they have to and sink and moving the same motion. To do this I am thinking about layering my paint in water video with a showgirl dancing in the background.