I have made some drawings to represent the movement and
fluidity of how a showgirl would perform. I wanted to mix my ideas from my
films of colour in water and show how it would look through a drawing. I wanted
to do this to show the impact of excitement through my drawings.
When editing my work, I used instagram video editor on my
phone and as my first-hand approach to editing I felt it worked well and it was
easy to use and I was able to edit it quickly and simply. In these videos that
I posted I have added a music to them to create a type of mood and I wanted the
sound of the music to work in time of the paint moving so it looks like the
paint is dancing in the water to the music. I used quite slow songs, so they
were able to work on time with the beat music.
For the motion of the paint in the water I was inspired by the international award winning Mark Mawson. I was actually inspired by one of his videos where he shows paint expanding and water with a backing track of music complementing the movement of the paint. This inspired me because he was almost showing how the paint could be represented as a type of mood or feeling. The video itself called aqueouse movie and shows paint in different forms and shapes and lines moving slowly through the water. What interested me about this video is how vibrant and voluminous it looked and I wanted to try and recreate some aspects of this.
I have always thought fairgrounds are a sort of live
performance of bright lights, exciting performers and strange and different
things. When creating my iMovie video again from using the same idea as my stop
motion animation, I wanted a way to represent a fairground performance by using
the most simplest objects. By using a
glass of water with red and blue watercolour paint, I was able to experiment
with ways of showing motion of paint through the water. I wanted the paint to
represent a kind of dance that almost has a life of its own. By using iMovie, I
was able to edit my video and add music and sounds to the video. I wanted to
use strange unusual sounds that I created myself, such as a rush of water
through a tap to represent the water in the glass and also the clinking sound
is me tapping a glass with a spoon and this represents the sound of the glass
in the video. I wanted my video to show that everything linked together. I
edited my video to change the speed and to rewind as I think it was important
to show the motion of the paint swirling in the glass of water.
I have recently thought of ways of manipulating film and how
one can change the mood and colours of a film. In this lesson, we had been
given a range of materials to draw over a long role of film and we had to
collaborate with each other to paint the film. Painting over the film has given
me ideas through my own process of development of ways I can use colour and
mood as a type of movement piece.
The finished film:
Editing is an integral element of making film. In my opinion, fair grounds can be a vibrant magical place. In my film, my idea is to show how colour can transfer into movement and expression. By dipping water colours a glass of water I began to be able to see movement and lines within the paint and it simulated types of mood though the different colours.
I want to start showing in my work how I can represent
fairgrounds through drawings. I have created a stop motion animation and my
inspiration was one of the headdresses at the pleasure Beach in Blackpool. I
wanted to create stop motion animation to represent a development of the
drawing that is suggestive of a show girl costume by using vibrant tones of
colour, glitter and stars.
This is my first creation of the stop motion animation. I
wanted to experiment with vibrant colour and almost create a still life
performance by using just paint and glittery stars.
In the past, I never thought that sound and music could be a
large part of drawing and art. Through this lesson I found that there is a way
of documenting music and sound through the expression of lines and drawing.
I wanted the lines of my drawing to express the rhythm of
the music and if the music was fast and up tempo the lines in the drawing would
be increasingly jagged and less orderly. If the music was slow and soft my
lines would be straight and neat. I
chose to use different colours to show the difference of each music track.
My drawings were presented in a large scale as I wanted to
express my whole body moving with the sound of the music and transferring that
onto each piece I completed.
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