Final Project

The above images are of my final project. The piece is still in development, however the piece will be an A1 illustrative design. A segment will also be animated. The design will be completed with fineliner pens ranging from 0.1mm - 0.8mm. The design will be completed within the silhouette of evolution pioneer Charles Darwin, which allows me to experiment designs with botanical and animal features. I use aspects on every design to keep a constant house style e.g. contour detailing on botanical areas and spinal triangular area on animals to show how each animal or plant is steamed from one another.
The piece will be exhibited in a black frame. I was originally going to use a wooden frame, but after discussions with my tutor we decided a black snap frame would be best so the texture/colour/grain of the frame wouldn't distract from the piece. This also allows for easy cleaning and lighting to be achieved. It was important to have enough light for my piece so that it is easy to see, therefore my booth will be in-front of a window, which is also where a plug socket is so that I can have power to a laptop. I have a plinth to stand the laptop on to at an easy height for viewing. As can be seen in the Google sketchup illustrations, the piece will be exhibited in a right angle, one size will feature the animation (laptop) and sketchbook, the other Final piece, and design and visual sheets, plus my final description. It is important I show all these to showcase the development and finalization of my piece.

Projection - Touring

Projection has become increasingly popular for music artists on tour. Artists now days use the projection for video interludes before a certain segment of the concert.  Lady Gaga has used the projection frequently throughout her tours. I like the way in which she has used Video art alongside projection. When performing the  track Dance in The Dark, Gaga uses a remixed song with a large-scale projection covering the whole stage. The video jumps and is distorted at different speeds replicating the song. After a short while the singer continues the song whilst standing behind the screen a variety of lights are behind her blowing her silhouette to a large size on the screen. This form of silhouette shadowing, is almost like the hand puppetry seen. I think this style which incorporates these aspects is very effective, instead of a pure video, reality and shape distortion is added, which also towers over the audience giving a sense of power and domination.
This is being taken a step further with holograms being introduced, now a musician can preform with another artist without them being there, a whole video can be projected in 3D onto a stage, and it looks real. Mainstream popularity was gained from the performance of Snoop Doggand the passed Tupac. With talks of Michael Jackson performances also this will only increase in popularity and it will be interesting to see how this develops and how others can showcase their own work in new and boundary pushing ways.

Lady Gaga Projection Example
Snoop Dogg and Tupac example

Tim Shaw

Tim Shaw's pieces alone are chilling and give a haunting atmosphere. But also the way he uses mundane backgrounds, often dark and almost thriller inspired backgrounds adds greater mood to the politically targeting pieces. I was have seen one of his pieces in last years Summer Arts Exhibition, this was presented again with the sculpture being in a dark colouring the piece kept to the same nature of the one above. All the pieces he exhibits are of the same nature which creates a constant house-style which can be seen on his website: http://www.timshawsculptor.com/ . The constant atmosphere and atmospheric display between the pieces also show how he has seen that one way it was displayed worked (the violent appearance standing out above the virgin white) and kept to the same technique replicating this years down the line. Not only this but he uses light to darken and cape he pieces in even more darkness creating shadowing extending the real life scale of the piece, so that the area in takes up is greater and more intimidating. A brilliant technique.

E3

E3 is a annual gaming expo. Each gaming company exhibits, there up coming consoles and games to industry as well as the public. The expo is successful as not only is it first to display new products, trailers/games as well as game art. The exhibition is streamed live world wide, with Nintendo so excited about this years slot for there new console reveal, for the first time it will be streamed not only by popular gaming website as IGN, Nintendo's website along with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube MTV2 and Spiketv. This global event then makes newspapers and magazine, all of this is a brilliant technique to reach the world in a quick way, straight away after viewing blogs and fans share thought on the Internet which is accessible worldwide. The expo shows real time console displays as well as video and as the picture shows projection on a large scale, I estimate the screen to be at  least triple the size of a cinema screen. This type of exhibiting is being copied by aritst and other industry today with the Internet being a huge platform. Today new interactive television adverts are being developed, by using smart phones with apps such as barcode scanners or recording devices to interactive to the television advertisement live with other viewes to gain extra information or buy/win products. This is only going to increase in popularity and will be hugely exciting to see it's development.

Film Museum

I visited the London Film Museum, the museum in my opinion was run down and dated. Although it exhibited piece from some of my favourite films Alien, Star Wars and Alice in Wonderland; the whole museum seemed as though it wasn't cared for and is stuck in a different decade. The decor was find but need some Major TLC, even a paint job would have made it better. The way in which items were actually exhibited was very old school with simple plastic, not glass fixtures which were full of scuffs and abrasions. Information like the Superman seen above was printed on a 'home printer' not a professional one,  with dull colours and finished on non gloss paper, this looked ridiculous as it seemed all the pieces were throwbacks that the movie companies didn't want. The colours were off and not contrasting to the images shown. The text was small and difficult to see especially with the dull lighting in the museum, if I didn't have a flash on my camera then I wouldn't have been able to take any photos.

The interactive exhibits were not turned on, for example the Alien fixtures where meant to move with a almost motion sensor technology being realistic to the film with movement and sound, however this was not the case as it wasn't on. The only way I could explain the disappointment was imaging being at a arcade and all the machines are not turned on. Being my favourite film I was expecting to be blown away, initially I was due to the scale of the replica, then the disappointment began. The only feature good was that an image from the film was standing next to the replica so I could see the likeness of the two. However this image again was dated and fading with a space interior frame which again needed attention.

I felt robbed due to the fact it was £12 pound to get into the mundane museum.

The museum has been suffering with lack of visitors lately and it is clear too see why. The fixtures need to be modernised and replaced, displays need to be cleaned and well lit, and no film memorabilia and props need to be present as most are from before 2005 greatly narrowing the target audience of the museum. I would not view the museum again due to the fact the employees clearly do not care for the museum, with non to be see within apart from when there asking for your money. Could it be argued it was a busy weekend? No as it was a Thursday afternoon about 3 P.M.

I saw this image and I found it shocking. The way in which the background is pure and block coloured black emphasies and borders the intended purpose, shock. With times the way they are and how society is with Global Warming, this image could be used as a shock tactic advertising. The image would be printed on alarge scale and hung in areas like tube stations, sides of buses etc. The crisp images with the ocean blues and text would highlight the meaning, with maybe one tag line or phrase also inteded to shock.

I usually will not post a lot of fashion pieces. However this dress and the moment it was captured has a tranquil feel. The layering of the dress along with the feathering floating is calming and pure. The appearance and density of the dress creates textural feel whilst the slimming fit on the torso creates a natural feel as though the model and dress grew together. I could imagine the dress being exhibited in a pressurised capsule with air vents causing the feathers to move, obviously the stronger the air the more issues with visibility of the dress, however I think this would be more interesting and powerful to showcase than on a typical mannequin. The dress could also work in this manner in a designer or high end fashion store maybe in popular shopping zones, e.g. Oxford Street.