Group Reflection: 24 Jan 24 - Developing and Pitching our Ideas
Following our meeting on 16 Jan, our session on 17 Jan, and our trips to Lumiere London, we had plenty more inspiration to flesh out our three ideas more and to prepare them to pitch to Ian and Alan in our group tutorial. We got the last tutorial slot, so we had plenty of time to use to explore our ideas further.
We worked really well to pitch ideas and inspiration from things we had seen, read, or researched previously. One of the best things about our group communication is that no one is ever made to feel like their ideas werenāt valuable or worth exploring.
We fleshed out from our preliminary ideas and were given feedback about how our audience may see them:
Idea 1: layering 2 images
Layering colours, patterns, lines, shapes - 2 projectorsĀ
someone blocks 1 projector to reveal something, and then they block other
2 images equally strong to create a mixture of both 1 image overlay the other - block the stronger one
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin - layering of the towns (suggested by Vira)
3D glasses - showing the real/not real images - They Live movie (suggested by Sean)
screen in between 2 projectors - tracing paper or layout paper - something transparent
facing opposite directions on paper (suggsted by Nadia)
Alan remarked that in this idea, the audience is more playful since they are in control by covering up one of the projectors. This gave us more thought into how we wanted them to discover they needed to cover up one of the projectors.
Idea 2: a character moving on a physical object
character moving through stories on boxes/cubes
goes over physical obstacles
the silhouette is there but the background will change
white with black background walking around
body is darker than the background
animated story - not just walking back and forth
Alan remarked that here, our audience is watching the story unfold, which gave us more to think about the narrative we wanted to tell, since the audience experience would be more about the feelings evoked from what they were watching.
Idea 3: projections on a dress
projection on dress/fabric
plain white dress on mannequin
changing patterns making it look like fire, water - elements
Alan & Ianās reactions to the third idea we presented were the strongest of the three.
potentially to wear the piece - work out the performance
is there a cohesive narrative? story to it or an issue?
dealing with an issue of women in the world
figures are given their idea by a surface appearance
became a portrait - for anybody
performance controls time and attention
projection doesnāt have to be on all the time, creating tensions
audience is working out what is going on
In our conversation after tutorial, we all thought is was really interesting that this idea was the one they had the most to say about since this idea was the one we overall had developed the least at this point.
All of the feedback we recieved, questions we were asked, and other ideas given were really valuable to us. We now had to think about the audienceās experience and their perspective. How would they interact with each exhibit? What would they see? What would they feel?Ā
We answered these questions by storyboarding each idea in our next meeting. Each will be posted separately.