29th of April 2013

Elaine painted the doll white. We were worried that this would result in the paint cracking off although the paint did crack off when moving the mannequin it wasn't to bad. In future however I would sand papering the mannequin and spray painting it.

Here is Micheal using a hairdryer to dry the dolls legs.

 

The make shift spot light i threw together. Made from toilet roll and black card.

 

It was attached to a lamp and the lamp was held up by a "telescopic ......."  thing that Micheal got us.
 

The lamps lead was to small resulting in use needing an extension chord.

 

We tapped down the windows to stop Sunlight from coming in and changing the lighting of our stop motion.

Our first setup for filming.

Our second setup for filming. We decided that we had better include a side just in case.

Our third setup we decided that we might as well have two wall on either side just in case of light from the Door and in case the wall accidentally got into the shot that they would fit into the ascetics of the piece.

This piece was quite unstable so i placed a hammer across a stick to put pressure to keep the boards in place. Not the safest or cleverest idea.

Micheal came up with the idea to cut grooves into the timber and then to wedge it into the boards.
After measuring out the distance we needed Micheal got the material store to cut us some timber with wedges in them.

 

 

This gave the piece structure.

In the end we added another one to the sturucture.

The Model

 

 

Because the model was attached to a base our original idea was to green screen out the base.

So i covered the base and pole in green so we could edit it out in post production.

 

 

 

When we were all setup to film we realised that the first move that the dancer was going to have to make was bending her torso because the dancer was attached to a pole and a base we were either going to have to change our dance or  change our dancers support.

 

 

 We all agreed that there was no way we could have a convincing dancer if her torso didn't move. We asked Elaine if it was OK to break the dancer off of its support. Elaine was fine with the idea, so i broke the dancer free from its support . I got to work on trying to make a new manoeuvrable support out of a hanger and also the base that it came with.

This proved to be highly unstable, as it would not stay in place. The wire would not fit in the base. The model was to heavy for the wire and would ultimately prove to be even more complicated then before.
Micheal went off and got a thicker wire that it would support the model. The copper wire Michael got was hard to bend and we didn't have the materials at that moment to cut it.

 

Elaine had suggested that we use thread earlier on in the day but which i had ruled out thread due to the nature of how i thought it would cause the model to rotate around a certain point. Thread however was seeming like the only option now. So i thought about why i thought thread wound not work and it was only because there would be only point of axis this would be simply solved by adding two points of axis. So we tied the thread around the shoulders of the doll.

Decided to give it at third axis point around the waist of the doll to enable greater manoeuvrability.