One of the places we visited in London was the London Film Museum. It was so good. A particular favourite was the Ray Harryhausen Myths and Legends exhibition. It was amazing, seeing his model making and all of the many many many things he has created was amazing. It was bizarre looking at some of his work, for example how he would buy taxidermy animals, remove the stuffing and insert a metal frame with over 100 joints, so the animal could be used in moved around as much as needed. It was amazing thinking that he was doing all of that in the 60s.
It was really good to see the original models and learn more about him. I would recommend the exhibition to anyone.
I also got to learn more about Charlie Chaplin. We spent a long time in that part of the museum and sat for at least half an hour just watching all of the old clips from his films. Obviously I know who Charlie Chaplin is, but I've never took the time to watch much of his work.
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Sophie in the South
I have spent the past week in the south. London and Oxford to be precise.
London has to be one of my favourite places ever, after Liverpool of course. Me, Tom and Ollie had a very busy two days which consisted of...
Sight seeing...
Amazing mexican food... courtesy of Wahaca in Covent Garden... If you are in London, YOU HAVE TO GO THERE.
And lots and lots of dancing to Prodigy at the Warriors Dance Festival in Milton Keynes with Amy and Lisa. The lighting and lasers at the end where amazing.
London has to be one of my favourite places ever, after Liverpool of course. Me, Tom and Ollie had a very busy two days which consisted of...
Sight seeing...
Amazing mexican food... courtesy of Wahaca in Covent Garden... If you are in London, YOU HAVE TO GO THERE.
And lots and lots of dancing to Prodigy at the Warriors Dance Festival in Milton Keynes with Amy and Lisa. The lighting and lasers at the end where amazing.
Saturday, 10 July 2010
New website
I have a website! Click here to have a look ...
I'm still going to be using my blog as a way of keeping people updated with what I am up to.
So if this is the first time you've came to my blog, have a look through my old posts and thanks for visiting.
I'm still going to be using my blog as a way of keeping people updated with what I am up to.
So if this is the first time you've came to my blog, have a look through my old posts and thanks for visiting.
Friday, 18 June 2010
I have a degree
I have finished my major personal project and I don't think it has hit home yet. I received my marks on Monday and to say I'm happy is an understatement. I am over the moon (to quote my Mum).
My exhibition shows the journey an emigrant would go on during the 19th Century and the problems they would face along the way. As I also enjoy theatre design, I wanted to combine a sense of theatre within my exhibition and wanted the exhibition to become an experience. Allowing the visitor to feel as if they had stepped back in time and actually become an 19th Century emigrant. I chose to do this by creating a fully dressed space using actors in each area to interact with the visitors and make the whole concept feel real.
To show my idea I created the whole exhibition using Sketchup and a 1:25 scale white card model of the whole area. I wanted to show my model making skills and show the design in another format and chose to select four areas of the same size in the model and create them in colour.
I have created a walk through of the exhibition using sketchup below.
I have also created a storyboard animation of the exhibition to explain what the visitor would go through along the way.
My final images of my model.
Photographs by Danielle Gregory. Thankyou! http://daniellegregory.carbonmade.com/
White Card Model
Victorian Liverpool.
Top Deck of the Ship
Australia
Reflection Zone
My exhibition shows the journey an emigrant would go on during the 19th Century and the problems they would face along the way. As I also enjoy theatre design, I wanted to combine a sense of theatre within my exhibition and wanted the exhibition to become an experience. Allowing the visitor to feel as if they had stepped back in time and actually become an 19th Century emigrant. I chose to do this by creating a fully dressed space using actors in each area to interact with the visitors and make the whole concept feel real.
To show my idea I created the whole exhibition using Sketchup and a 1:25 scale white card model of the whole area. I wanted to show my model making skills and show the design in another format and chose to select four areas of the same size in the model and create them in colour.
I have created a walk through of the exhibition using sketchup below.
I have also created a storyboard animation of the exhibition to explain what the visitor would go through along the way.
My final images of my model.
Photographs by Danielle Gregory. Thankyou! http://daniellegregory.carbonmade.com/
White Card Model
Saturday, 15 May 2010
Model Making
Finally I have begun model making, this is one of my favourite parts of the course and now I have everything designed I can get really stuck in to what I enjoy.
I have mentioned in previous posts that I am creating a 1:25 white card model of the whole exhibition and selecting four, 4x4m areas and creating them in colour to get across the textures and feel for them areas.
I used sketchup to print out all my plans at 1:25 and I am going to build my model up from that. It was scary seeing how big the plans where and I had a "slight" panic, but after some encouraging talks from tutors and coursemates I feel like I can do this!
I am working on the Liverpool area at the moment and I am very excited to be making a shop with the family name on. My Nan is going to love it!
A brick making technique that didn't work as well. I'm trying to create an antique brick effect and this technique of using milliput smoothed on didn't work at all.
I found putting lines of milliput on one at a time and working in to them gave a much better look and although time consuming gave the effect I was after.
I'm hoping once I start to paint the bricks they will look a lot better.
I have mentioned in previous posts that I am creating a 1:25 white card model of the whole exhibition and selecting four, 4x4m areas and creating them in colour to get across the textures and feel for them areas.
I used sketchup to print out all my plans at 1:25 and I am going to build my model up from that. It was scary seeing how big the plans where and I had a "slight" panic, but after some encouraging talks from tutors and coursemates I feel like I can do this!
I am working on the Liverpool area at the moment and I am very excited to be making a shop with the family name on. My Nan is going to love it!
Reflection
I have been trying to work on my reflection area of the exhibition for a while now. This area of the exhibition has become really important, it will give an end to it and allow the visitors to really reflect on what they have been through.
I was originally going to have a room filled with photo frames, some with digital screens inside. The visitors would get their photograph taken at the beginning of the experience and at the end their faces would appear in the photo frame wall of visitors. This was to try and get across how many people survived and how many people didn't make it on the long journeys.
After working it out though, the exhibition is designed to have 10 visitors in each group, staggered by 15 minute tours. That equals 40 visitors an hour and at least 320 a day. Meaning I would have to have a lot of photo frames around.
I really like the idea of including the photos of visitors and after a lot of thinking and mulling over I have came up with my final design. The final room is to be filled with hundreds of thin rope hanging from the ceiling to the floor. The majority of them will be blue, with the occasional red rope mixed through. Visitors will have their photograph taken on a polaroid at the beginning of the experience and asked to keep that in their bag of belongings when they arrive. When they reach the reflection area, they will be asked to take their picture and write a sentence that sums up their experience on the back. They would then pin it to a blue rope if they where an emigrant who survived and a red rope if they where an emigrant who didn't survive.
I want this to be something that the visitors can use to really reflect upon their visit, the ropes will be hanging so the visitors can move through them, touch them and look at the faces and sentances of the other visitors.
I created how I want it to look in sketchup and I'm really happy with the outcome.
I was originally going to have a room filled with photo frames, some with digital screens inside. The visitors would get their photograph taken at the beginning of the experience and at the end their faces would appear in the photo frame wall of visitors. This was to try and get across how many people survived and how many people didn't make it on the long journeys.
After working it out though, the exhibition is designed to have 10 visitors in each group, staggered by 15 minute tours. That equals 40 visitors an hour and at least 320 a day. Meaning I would have to have a lot of photo frames around.
I really like the idea of including the photos of visitors and after a lot of thinking and mulling over I have came up with my final design. The final room is to be filled with hundreds of thin rope hanging from the ceiling to the floor. The majority of them will be blue, with the occasional red rope mixed through. Visitors will have their photograph taken on a polaroid at the beginning of the experience and asked to keep that in their bag of belongings when they arrive. When they reach the reflection area, they will be asked to take their picture and write a sentence that sums up their experience on the back. They would then pin it to a blue rope if they where an emigrant who survived and a red rope if they where an emigrant who didn't survive.
I want this to be something that the visitors can use to really reflect upon their visit, the ropes will be hanging so the visitors can move through them, touch them and look at the faces and sentances of the other visitors.
I created how I want it to look in sketchup and I'm really happy with the outcome.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Its the final countdown. Du du du du
There is 2 weeks left. I have so much to do and I am fingers crossed going to get it all done. I'm hoping to complete a 1:25 white card model of my whole exhibition... With four 4m x 4m areas in colour. I am determined to get this done and hopefully my huge list will help.
Two down, about 900 to go!
Two down, about 900 to go!
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