Deserted Village - Group Project 25/05/15

I'm in Group 1 with Eoin, Clodagh and John. This week I took the role of group leader and divided up the other roles to the group. Eoin was the Scribe, John was the designer/presenter and Clodagh was the researcher. The week went well, the group seems to be getting on and we are communicating amongst ourselves efficiently. Everyone seems to be happy for the moment.

 We had a workshop with Dave on PaperCraft on Thursday the 22/01/15.  Below are photographs of a rough experiment I made.

John was cutting away

Clodaghs Research 

 On Friday the 23/01/15 I did contextual research.

Eoin as our scribe wrote the following :

"Proposal: Our Initial proposal was to read stanza 1 and to see what interpretation each of us took from it.. To investigate the themes and tone of the poem. We are going to experiment with making 3D models, 3D set design and using stop motion to create our animation."

"Each member of the group researched the poem its context and what they felt were the themes running through the stanza. We met and were in agreement that the poem was a lament for not just the village but for the people that inhabited the village. the poet remembers how the villagers worked,played and interacted with each other. we discussed this idea of how he the poet is remembering how things were but are no longer…so we thought about maybe representing the people and their activities.. as perhaps ghost like or stripped back versions of themselves…as they no longer exist….only in memory thats what they have been reduced to…..our aim at this stage was to investigate the form that they may take……and what the environment they existed in was like…we thought the environment should be somewhat bleak,surreal or ethereal….we didn't want to tie ourselves down historically ..and wanted to create a more contemporary background.. we each chose different elements to research…the figures/characters/environment…etc...we timed a reading of the stanza which came to 2 min to 2 mins 30 secs. we broke the stanza down into visual components and separated out what we thought were moods/emotions/reflections from real physical objects. we were also in agreement that we should not try and represent word for visual each and everything mentioned in the poem..we wanted to represent more so the themes….we had identified which we felt were melancholy, sadness,loss, and memory."

"we found the famine sculptures by Rowan Gillespie in Dublin inspirational..we liked the way the human form was stretched and the figures elongated..the figures had ghost like qualities.. from another era or time forgotten..only existing in memory "

"we liked this idea that the figures/characters in stanza one had been eroded or forgotten…they only now existed in the memory of the poet "all these charms had fled" we discussed using stripped back/reduced characters in our piece as they had been reduced to mere memories..they were ghost like figurers inhabiting the landscape…eoin was to make a maquette with these elongated/stretched forms."

"experimenting w/paper as possible source for the backgrounds. we created from drawings paper cut outs of some of the environments that are suggested in stanza 1..then retraced these drawings and cut out three separate layers ..from different types of paper..offset them slightly…to see if it would make a 3d look..as an experiment..we also discussed about how if we chose to use this approach.. we could cut different amounts of paper from each layer and use lighting to reveal visuals through the layers…"

"we looked at the artist/sculptor Giacometti and the way he also stretched and pulled his figures…reducing his figures to the bare minimum…which we felt our characters in the stanza had been reduced to…the bare minimum…just a fading memory.."

Links of interest to our project

Motionpoems - 'Working Order' from Gentleman Scholar: http://ianbuckley.tumblr.com/post/108907607596/vimeo-does-anyone-have-any-idea-whatI'm a fan of how everything morphs into one another in a dream like fashion.

Animation - paper craft, by Hyundai card. : http://ianbuckley.tumblr.com/post/108907268196/animation-paper-craft-by-hyundai-card-i-like
I like 0:00 the way the paper uncrumbles itself, and I like 0:40 how the river was done.

http://ianbuckley.tumblr.com/post/108906723756/mayahan-rotating-miniature-worlds-silhouetted
Rotating Miniature Worlds Silhouetted Through Layers of Paper
Nermin Er,
360 degree environment is a nice effect, also i like how it is light from behind.

http://ianbuckley.tumblr.com/post/108906601731/paper-cuts-spoke-art
Hari & Deepti, I need to research this crowd more, they have some great work using light boxes to illuminate there scenes.

There's more on my tumblr so scroll through it. These are just the highlights.
 Tumblr : http://ianbuckley.tumblr.com/