I tried out experimenting with my film projected onto different surfaces and sizes. At the moment there’s not really any space on my wall to try the projection really big on a white wall, so I will try that once in my degree show space. However I did experiment with different objects in my space.
I first tried it on the wall on top of my boards. I do quite like it on the wall from what I could see, but it definitely takes away the effect of the boards which I don’t want to happen. So once I get in my degree space I will take the opportunity to try it out on the clear wall.
I then tried out projecting the film onto my dress which has been a plan for a while now. I tried it large and small scale to see what would work best.
Large scale on the top of the dress over the make-up gave a distorted image. I was able to see it was a projection but it was very unclear to see what was actually being projected. In a way as much as I’d like to hide my face by projecting it this way. I feel this would then mean, I in fact lose the effect of it if the viewer can’t actually see what is going on.
I tried it small scale, similar to how the artist Pipilotti Rist works. I do really like this small scale projection as I feel it does have to make the viewer get right up close and personal to the dress to see what is going on in the video.
I feel it also works on a fairly large scale on the centre of the dress where there is just clean wipes. This makes the image clear and easy to see for the viewer; nothing is distorted here.
At the moment I am tied between the large scale on the dress and small scale. Do I want the projection really clear to see and show my uncomfortable feeling? Or do I want the viewer to have to really come close to my make-up to understand what is really going on, which perhaps they won’t want to do because of the ‘dirty’ wipes. This is something I am going to be thinking about over the next few days. And I need to try it on on the plain white wall!
