#interimshow

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Yesterday, I met with the peers on my course who will be curating my work for the Interim Show. I have been contemplating how I wanted to present my work, evidence of this can be found in my sketchbook and there are sketches in my studio space. I have been placed in the separate room that comes off of PS1. The curators (Laura, Sam and Kinga) have decided that I, along with 2 other students, would work really well as a bit of a collaborative installation. All of our work is fairly similar in the way that it can be turned into an installation of a living room installation (My photo album, a video piece on a TV monitor and possibly a video piece on a projector).

I am perfectly happy with the idea and it fits in so perfectly well with the presentation ideas I already had. I have been asked to consider subtly allowing Brandon’s work influence mine. Brandon is doing a video piece based around men wearing “women’s” clothes and vice versa. At this point, my photo album is merely exploring the notion of forgotten photographs but I could add a lot more context by subtly including KEY DATES of injustices against the LGBT community that were in the same timeframe as my found photographs (1950s - 1980s) - particularly events involving transgender individuals.

I thought this was a brilliant idea, particularly as I am a queer individual and have often researched around the subject area of gender equality and sexuality! I’m also going to see if I can make any extra pieces to put into the exhibition to tie it all together (i.e. a list of names of LGBT individuals involved in hate crimes) maybe in the form of something that may have been found in a traditional home. A telephone book, maybe? However, I don’t want to get too ambitious!

Vinyl

Since I have a Mac displaying my work, I have a space above the Mac that looks a bit bare. 

I thought that a nice display of some of the shapes used in the animation could be a good chance to use vinyl because it’s something that I haven't used that much in the past. 

So I made a display of all of the shapes using a stroke instead of a fill because even though they would be harder to execute, they would all be consistent as well as the fact that some of them really didn't suit of fill.

For the Interim Show, I will be displaying my work on a Mac. 

I want to have more than just a simple video displayed on a Mac so one of the ideas that I thought about was to make a desktop background that will compliment the animation. I thought that it would be interesting to have the video as part of the background and with the theme of my animation being film, I had some ideas about using that as a theme for my background.

Originally, I thought about a cinema screen but with my animation being portrait, that wouldn't have worked. So then I thought about film posters and how they are displayed outside the cinema or around the walls inside the cinema. This suited my video more as its portrait and could easily have my video slot in perfectly. 

Even though most cinema ‘now showing’ signs are fairly plain, there were a few examples of the poster being inside a big box with neon lights. I liked this flashy style and decided to base my idea on that.

Going with a neon border as well as the text being in neon too, it really brought attention to the focal point. To make it look more like it was on a cinema wall, it put a poster at each side with the lights slightly dimmed on them so not to bring too much attention to them. (I just used posters that I had previously made to use for these.) 

Final Animation

So after making all of the separate animations, I then brought them all together to make one full animation to sum up the emotions that we get when watching a film. I had previously made 9 animations but wanted to include ‘Amused’ as I thought that laughter is a really important one to include so it makes an appearance.

I have made unique transitions between each emotion, some that relate to the upcoming animation. Some of them just suited a colour fade out or the background disappearing, but there were some that I felt suited a transition that related to the unique emotion. An example would be for the transition between ‘Angered’ and ‘Thrilled’ because the bars falling through the screen introduced the theme of the emotion well. Another example would be between ‘Saddened’ and ‘Relaxed’ because the teardrop falling into the water was just too good an opportunity to turn down. 

As well as the transitions, I thought that it would be important to have an opening and closing statement, just to give the animation some context. Rather than have people guessing or just watching a bunch of random shapes move around.