FINAL FILM TO BE SHOWN AT MOSI

We have now approached the deadline of our piece and can see what a jounrney our project and final film has been through. We had so many different ideas for our final film and have chopped and changed it countless time so that it embodies everything we wanted it too. We all finally decided on our final film thanks to the input from Alex, Kate, Julie and Mary.


Wearing group 3 Final film dan dan daaaaaaaaa 'Inside Manchester'

Group Evaluation

Coming to the end of our project we have learnt so much about working in a group and taking ourselves completely out of our comfort zone. We have really enjoyed the experience and process and have all  applied ourselves to the project. We now realise how challenging it is to include everyones thoughts and identify everyones strengths and weaknesses. Although at first we had so many ideas as the weeks went on we managed to narrow down our concept and make it more clear. Unit X was a new way of working, we worked professionally together and well as a team. We were lucky to really bond as a group and used our group time to bounce ideas and concepts off each other. The concepts then developed throughout the process and we started to get some very strong ideas coming through that we started to explore and develop in order to create our final film.

When it became clear that we had to have some sort of digital outcome we were slightly unsettled. We had very little digital knowledge or Photoshop skills at the start of the project which was something we had to confront. Sometimes being forced into a situation your not entirely comfortable with can create some really interesting results and we think that considering this we actually extended our skill set.

Working in a group allowed us to be able to work off each others personal strengths, each taking something different to the table, for example some members of the group specialised in hand embroidery, machine embroidery, print and dye. This enabled us to combine all our knowledge of textiles together and use different processes to develop a final outcome. Our samples being projected onto the human body worked well. Although it was challenging and difficult at times, we worked together and completed this task successfully. We feel as though our initial projected images were in fact stronger as individual images rather than put together in to the film.

We spent quite a lot of group time at the beginning going to galleries and doing relevant research around the city collecting photographs and videos. This was useful in the final week of editing as we had so much to work with. The concept of embroidery on the inside started to develop well through the middle of the project. From our samples we really tried to continue this idea.

It could be argued we almost had too much to work with which soon became a detrimental flaw to trying to put our film together. We had worked so hard throughout the sampling process and had so much work that trying to narrow it down and fit everyones pieces in became very tricky especially with our lack of imovie knowledge.

Development of film sandwich section

After I went to go and test out our films at the Museum of Science and Industry. Katie and Julie had a look at the different bits of footage we had done and really like our group drawing and the footage of Vincent and Emma with our samples projected. However they said that at the moment they looked like two separate films and we need to find a way of linking them together. Trying to find the 'filling to our sandwich' so it would flow and be more successful. We realised that we had footage of our drawing projected on Vincents body and though this would be a great way of combining everything. So the film would go: Drawing- parts of drawing projected on Vincent - Vincents body with our samples projected - Vincent and Emma projection footage combined together with our samples - just Emma with our samples projected - end.  As a group we decided this footage would make the best  'filling to our sandwich'.

This week we have been in uni as a group from 10am until 7pm! We have put lots of hours in to make sure we are all happy with our final film.

We had lots of edits of the film(on group blog) and realised the problems with trying to combine files between MACs and laptops!

Monday; We started trying to collaborate all of the filming we had done over the project, we soon realised this was too difficult, we had too much variation in filming and our ideas behind the project were not clear enough.

Tuesday ;we focused alot on making it clearer and using the parts that we thought best represented our project.

We thought the projection work and our drawing film portrayed our project well. 

The whole editing process was very exhausting but we are slowly seeing the end result.

We always had the idea of a 'hidden' element to our project and so at the start of the week we did envisage projecting our film onto a shirt. But after experimenting, we found that the quality of the film would not be as clear, and so we had to abandon this idea.

projection on shirt

Once our film was complete we wanted to project it onto a shirt that was open to show our concept of inside Manchester, however we felt that it just didn't look right, as a group we thought that the projections on the shirt looked better live maybe we could project onto a shirt in MOSI?
We have a short clip of what it did look like.




http://vimeo.com/user11738357/movingshirt

Second Stage of Trousers

After I machine stitched into the trousers I passed them onto Emma, she decided to dye them. The dye worked really well and it's interesting to see that different areas of the trousers were dyed different shades, some threads also got dyed in the process. 

Group Stills

Part of our initial final idea was to project our best images from our sampling throughout the project onto the inside of a shirt. However once we started projecting we thought it was starting to loose some of the colouring and the effectiveness of the individual images. Here I have put together a small slideshow or our images..