Project

Experiment in Studio

Final experiments

After my first experiment I wanted to work with body movement more.

In my experiments I was experimenting on what was the successful way to cast a full body silhouette/shadow an capture it successfully with a camera.

Casting shadow on white wall

what worked: I liked how the colours blended and how the shadow came out

What didn't work: I didn't like how the shadow looked when it was cast on to the white walls and it was hard to get around to capture only the shadow and not the person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdUKbyUAIo

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casting shadow on a fabric

what worked: how the full body silhouette came out I think that this method worked and the extras lights that were added worked very well

what didn't work: the sheet winkles I didn't like

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casting shadow with transparent screen

what worked: how the shadow came out and the light and different colours blend in and the silhouette came through nice and sharp. This was the final set method i came up with and this was the method I soot my video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYffMskUDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AfwhCRcyfE

Experiments with projection

This experiment was a accidental experiment the projector in the moving image room was broken so i decided to turn it to the green screen that was hanging up on the wall and asked the girl to dance in front of it while i film them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdugMnBIuWI

1 Experiment

Blue

This experiment was influenced by Kara Walker silhouette :
Gone, An Historical of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart" (1994)

Gone with the Wind was one of those books that I already had preconceived ideas about: I already knew that I wasn’t going to like it. (LAUGHS) And some of my experiences in Atlanta with the mythology of Gone with the Wind included things like the sequel to it that came out around the time I was working in a large bookstore. And some of the more personal and private events that happened in and around places like the Cyclorama, which is not too far away from where they filmed parts of Gone with the Wind, and where the fake Tara was.
I had built up prejudices against Gone with the Wind. The first time I thought I would work with it, I was in graduate school, and I was making a collage on top of the book, Gone with the Wind, but really, without having read it. I decided that wasn’t going to work, about halfway through.
And so, I plopped down, started to read the book, and was thrilled with how engrossing that story was, and how grotesque it was at the same time. My interests were already running along the lines of other versions of the historical romance—the permutations of Gone with Wind, to some extent. It was the most fitting choice of text to work with. But the romance of it, the storytelling—it was so rich and epic, and that was what I hadn’t expected. I hadn’t expected to be titillated in the way that stories like that are meant to titillate. And, at the same time, it was so much fodder for the work that I wanted to do.