You know you’re an art student when your shiny package of 36 glue sticks finally arrives and you get excited…
Anyway, new plan: Use a famous song, with a less obvious storyline as the base for my stop motion animation. I’m thinking Boomtown Rats, I don’t like Mondays… should be fun to play about with a black key glissando on the piano for the start of the film… :)
So after making sure the cat wasn’t around, (or more precisely tempting her outside with tasty treats) I started work on a school playground… (see pictures) So far I have a slide and a base of 2 schools (little and big) which need some twiddly bits.
I think I might have to make multiples of each object so I can do a more dramatic ‘zoom in’ to the scene. Only problem with that is I tend to get carried away with improving the prop design, until supposed replicas of the same item look rather different. I guess a better plan would be to start with the small scale model and then do improvements to the bigger one so as it zooms in, the viewer can magically see more detail… like the bigger school has an extra room for instance ;)
Today I discovered that my dear little cat has a secret appreciation for my book sculptures.
Sadly, this isn’t the ‘Wow! My cat stares at my art transfixed’ kind of appreciation…
more the: ‘My cat has discovered that by wildly batting at the paper models with her paw, she can turn them into playthings that fly round the room’ … :/
Anyway…
After that I I thought I’d have a break from paper models and play about with some shiny pastels. Does it have anything to do with my art degree final piece? I don’t know yet. Was it fun? Yes. :)
I thought I’d add a video of me playing the Titanic film theme tune (My heart will go on…) to go with the little paper model :D hopefully this will work! It’s a bit tinny sounding as i rested the camera on the piano itself but hopefully you get the idea. :)
Titanic on piano :)
Yayy!! It’s finally finished! After copious amounts of glue gun, the remnants of a tatty book (it was otherwise going to be pulped so i only feel slightly bad about cutting it up) and many hours of slicing, sticking and caffeine, I finally have one complete titanic book sculpture :D :D :D
I’m now debating whether or not to make a second identical ship to tear in half for the sinking part of the film, or whether to use the original one and hope Ive filmed all I need to of the intact version… hmm…
I think I’ll leave it alone for a day or two and come back to it at a later date when I’m feeling more adventurous. :)
Continuing the theme of disasters…thinking about the obvious upcoming anniversary of the sinking of the titanic. I guess it’s a little too obvious as a final piece… I’m hoping the film will start out rather nonchalant and naive where a viewer might think ooh that looks sweet…And then something terrible happens so the audience may be vaguely shocked by the turn of events… Thinking fairytale but with a twist of- well actually real life doesn’t work that way… Rather than- ooh this is based on the titanic and already knowing the outcome. Plus i don’t particularly want people saying ooh you missed out the part where Kate Winslet does that iconic flying on the back of the ship by waving her arm thing. (cue disaster music) however, its stuck in my head now and so I guess it would be good practice to make a mini titanic model and experiment with video and get it out of my system.
