Group Meeting

• Watching editing- changed order to avoid it looking like she's growing up
• Grey top and jeans first, then Rebellious, child, then medicated
• Use medicated as the disruptions
• Effects- radial & simple

Gabie made another edit with more effects and a new order.

16/10

Today

• booked a projector and media player for the installation
• Location: Studio 2- spoke to Sarah and she said its the best room for our needs - we can hang the material from the lighting equipment as its easy to manoeuver

TO DO:

• Look for transitions over xmas 
• Do more research on D.I.D - dsm books, library website, watch films/documentaries
• Aim high with research
• Scribble drawings
• Show diversity in thought process
• Submit notebook as well as blog
• Look at how D.I.D is affected by drugs 

Meeting with Gaya

Availablity:

• Monday 11-1 (AG.07 booked)
• Tuesday 1pm onwards

Going to research a D.I.D relapse/breakdown for reference for Gaya

Outfits:

• Pinafore and t-shirt (see other post) for child like
• Blue hospital gown for mediated
• All black or all white for environment 

TO DO:

• Make layers tomorrow - bought black paint to paint the wood, emailed 3D workshop 
• Book AG.07 for shooting/ potentially studio 2 or 3
• Test make up for shoots

Also thought of name ideas for our piece, could take a quote or sentence from Lydia's description.

' I dont have control?'

'Shift'?

Story Board / group meeting

TO DO:

• make a description card for final piece - explanation of the piece
• piece will be on a constant loop
• building frames on Rriday- poles along the bottom and top of the material
• Bought wooden sticks for the frames
• We have all materials DONE
• Story board 
• Order hooks
• visit 3D workshop 
• Ask hospital for a gown
• Buy polaroids to burn - ordered prints DONE

We also talked about filming as a moving image but making it stop motion in post. This is probably a wiser idea because then we have 2 options and with stop motion its much easier to make mistakes.

TOMORROW:

• meet with Gaya
• test shots using props

FRIDAY:

• Materials should be ready to project onto
• 3D workshops for frames 

Group Meeting

People with D.I.D can't control their Ego & Super ego's - so they become unconscious - different personalities. 


Group Meeting:

• Tested 3 different chiffon material, plan on using the white and off white chiffon.
• Went to fashion dept to ask for spare material to test on - found a nice black material that is perfect to project on. (ask fashion what material it is so we can buy more)
• Continue research cloth/material
• Definitely 3 layers (id, ego & superego) maybe 4
• Human sized pieces of material -portrait rather than landscape
• Considered distance & angle of projector - further away is better, perhaps angle projector from above
• Material hanging slightly above the ground to make it as realistic as possible
• Play with editing as if the personalities are morphing
• 2 Projectors? - images will overlap
• Audience can only walk round the sides but not through coz they will block the images
• Look at venues
• Material size : 5-6ft tall, 3-4ft wide - need to measure the actor 
• Where can we get our projector from - ask ryan
• Expression through body rather than just face - how much will the actor move around
• Bright colours- vibrance
• Photography studio as our installation space? our space will need sockets 
• Back projection is the strongest, while front is the weakest/ less clear
• Perhaps use grey material in the middle
• DECIDE ON CONTENT QUICKLY
• Ask peter if he knows anyone from fashion that can help us with materials

Actions for next week:

• More material
• Pick a room
• Test shot in room
• Confirm an actor
• Dedicate a day to try everything - Wednesday

Group Meeting

To do list for tomorrow:

• Go to 3D workshop ask about materials & infrastructure
• Email peter to find a room with a projector 
• Test shots
• Look at potential spaces 
• Play around
• Most physical stuff
• Meeting at 11am tomorrow 

Continue with research throughout the week. Look at ID, ego & super ego. 

FREUDS THEORY LOOK!!!!!

Talked about writing character profiles to go with our installation. 

Gabie's going to email possible actors, I'm going to post in the Facebook group to ask people.

ID, ego & superego will be our personalities.

Questions to ask Lydia;

• How commonly do your personalities fluctuate?
• Does she define them as characters?
• Is she scared that she doesn't know which personality is her own? how does she define it?
• Does she remember the first time it 'happened'? 
• Does she know why she has it?
• Can you distinguish between each personality, or are they all very different?

I found this image on pinterest and I find it super interesting. I think we could create something like this. This image plays more with mirrors whereas ours will be with material.

I really like the amount of strings and different squares, its very layered and complex.

Tonight I'm going to do some in depth research on Freuds theories and continue watching Me, Myself & Irene. (a film about multiple personality).

Tutorial with Peter

After our tutorial with Peter i've realised we've got loads to do next week. I'm pretty happy with where we are right now in terms of research & planning. We've got loads of different ideas between us, so i think we should try to narrow it down to one or two to make production easier. Experimentation is vital right now. Use of multiple screen is definitely set in stone now, we are all certain that we will be doing it. An idea we've come up with is projecting onto pieces that are spaced out rather than layered in a line. This means we could be projecting around the room, meaning we'll need a few projectors. I like this idea but I think for it to work all the projections will have to be of the same image & they will have to be synchronised perfectly.

I'm really happy with our group and I'm so excited to start making this project. All the ideas we are throwing around sound so creative and interesting and I really do think we are going to create something amazing!!

Things to do for next week;

• Build a mini model of our installation - Wednesday
• Buy material muslin from boots
• Borrow a projector
• Define the 4 personalities we want to portray
• Ask lydia more in depth questions, try to get a better understanding
• Define & narrow down our ideas

22/11/16 THINGS TO DO & GROUP MEETING

Group Meeting

• Sent out casting call 
• Discussed ethics - need to research
• Following Peter's feed back- filming body not just face, trying to be more ambitious
• Planned trips
• Discuss audio - ambient piece
• After visiting the freud museum tomorrow we will decide on the personalities we want to portray

HOMEWORK

• contact people- Facebook statuses, look for charities/support groups 
• Research people we are going to see at the exhibitions- go to gabies plan for thursday
• Fabric shopping
• Actors - casting
• Logo design - ask josh

Casting Call:

Tutorial Feedback/ Plan of action for next week

I was really happy with the feedback we received today. Our idea isn't very developed yet but what we've come up with so far seems to be successful. I think we need to conduct a lot more research into our topic before we set our production into motion.

Something that could be a problem is the ethics of our piece.

I'm pretty confident with how we are planning to construct our installation and Peter seemed to like the idea too. Researching other artists is crucial at this point, this should help us develop a stronger and clearer idea.
Sometime this week we are going to visit galleries, and search around for exhibits similar to ours for some inspiration. We're also planning on looking at potential materials to project onto, after we buy a few different types we are going to film some test shots & project them onto a plain white wall/board.




Plan of action for week commencing: 21/11

• Art gallery visit's
• Loads of research
• Try out loads of different materials
• Look at potential projection spaces
• Test shots
• Create a small construction model
• Look for potential actors

17/11/16

Second group meeting;

• Working on statement of intent - FINISHED
• Idea development
• Potential visit to St Pauls Cathedral to see Bill Viola's work
• Gallery visits- monday or thursday

Projection Ideas

• Material will be landscape
• projecting in a dark room
• 4-7 sheets of material - meaning we need to experiment with 4-7 different personalities 
• one actor, different personalities. Only one personality will be projected at a time
• shutter effect for the transition between each personality  - like picture slideshows in galleries
• different durations for each personality, i.e rage changes really quickly, but spiritual takes a bit longer
• potentially draw on pieces of material (disclosure album covers) with paints or pens, create a more abstract feel to it 

15/11/16 First Group Meeting

First group meeting
Summary of idea- split personality, how each personality is represented. Installation.

NEXT GROUP MEETING : THURSDAY @ 2PM

Ideas;

• simple narrative
• Split personality
  
• installation
• mulitple personality 'disorder'
• Bill viola projections on textile
• TV monitors
• perhaps use the back of subjects head's instead of their direct face
• Project through cloth, start with the 'strongest & truest' personality as the clearest projecting, then each personality become less clear towards the least dominant personality. Same person, different personalities. 
• Sunny & I both looked at Kim Noble
• Strong message not to abstract
• Fine art route
• 'theatre' performance
• Definitely projection right now

Bill Viola The Vieling 
https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/54-498/f2015/the-veiling-by-bill-viola-1995/

We're gonna upload all our files to google drive and then eventually make a blog.

Research;

• Existing installations
• Split personality disorders
• Similar ideas/ art

schizophrenia

By: Axel Bueckert