Because the materials are so thin and light we will need to stretch them tight to project, meaning we will need to fasten them to the floor as well as the ceiling. I liked the material, it had a nice shiny tone to it which created lots of different colours on the projection, the only negative is that it could perhaps be a bit thicker so it isn't as transparent.
We went to the fashion dept to see if they had an scrap pieces of material & we found a really nice black material (see below). This material is perfect to project onto and we're thinking of using it as our back layer as the image is the clearest. We also found some patterned material but decided against it because it wasn't transparent enough.
After lots of tests it looks like we are going to have to make the clips very bright and vibrant in editing for them to show up properly on the fabric.
These were the fabrics we started with.
We held up each material to see how transparent they were. The first 2 materials are the first 2 layers and the black is the 3rd.
The clarity of the images surprised me, I was quite skeptical about how well the projection would work. We also figured out the further away the material is the clearer the image is. The only problem was the creases in the material & because we couldn't fasten them properly to the ceiling they kept moving. The fabric will need to be ironed before we present.
In the shot below the second layer is using the blue fabric. At first we thought it was effective but then we realised that it looks like we've put a filter on the image and it looked strange if just the middle image was blue, so we decided against coloured fabric. Neutral colours will work better, especially as we are planning on the video image being very bold and colourful.
After lots of experimentation it was decided that the white, off white & black fabrics were going to be used for our project. More experimentation with other fabrics is necessary, but for now I am happy with using these materials.
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