Installation set up

Went into studio 2 today to give our installation a test run.


I think its the perfect space for our installation, its got nice high ceilings a black curtain that can be pulled all the way around, blacking out the space completely.

Had lots of issues today with:

• Projector- mine isn't strong enough. luckily we could borrow one from Sarah which had a very strong, clear picture- she said we can borrow it Thursday
• Positioning- we moved the layers up and down loads of times to get the perfect height- want the first image to look as if Gaya is stood on the floor, makes it much more life like
• Cloth falling off the railings - the light rigs had to be moved into the perfect position, we have decided to tie the material to the rigs so it won't slip off
• Material blowing in the breeze- the studio has AC that we cant turn off, so we're going to create little holes and attach see through bits of string to the bottom so we can tie them down an prevent movement

Overall I'm happy with the set up we came up with today, the clarity of the image looks great and after lots of rearrangement we found the perfect heights/distances etc.

Slight Changes:

• Pieces of material are now staggered upwards as the projection is diagonal 
• First layer is close to the floor to create a more life like image- Looks as if Gaya is actually stood there 
• Using LED's to light the floor as the studio is pitch black !!
• Black cloth is used at the front rather than the white holographic material
• Cloth needs to be tied to the floor because of AC

We also finally decided on the projects name:
Me & Them 

Plan of action for next week

Monday: Busy all day

Tuesday: Meet @ 10:30 to work on footage - editing, rearranging

Wednesday: Meet @ 10:30 more editing, set up installation to check for any faults, last minute fixes and changes 

Thursday/Friday: Presentation day

AG.07 Risk assessment

Filming tomorrow

Meeting at 10am to set up Ag.07 and get small LED lights from Hasan.
Plan of action for Gaya is the previous post.

Props/equipment needed tomorrow:

• all costume
• make up 
• toys/bouncy balls/ dummies
• medication/ medication bottles
• hospital gown
• hair bands 
• chair
• paper 
• pens
• lighter
• scissors
• pictures
• LED lights
• Tripod
• Cameras
• spare batteries
• SD cards

Gaya will come in plain clothes and no make up for an establishing shot.

Plan of action:

• Set white balance and lighting according to Gaya
• Mark the floor with tape to help Gaya stay in frame
• Test shots/ pictures to check lighting
• Plain establishing shot
• Child like shot- costume change, hair in pigtails and a little bit of blush for rosey cheeks
• Playing with child props - dummy, toys etc
• Drawing on the floor 
• Shots from standing and sitting
• Run through the whole sequence 2/3 times to be sure
• Review on laptop
• Environment/rebellion shot- outfit change to plain colours/ checked shirt
• Interaction with props
• No make up change - but hair to be taken dow
• Run through the whole sequence 2/3 times to be sure
• Review
• Medicated shot- make up change- dark makeup under eyes
• Messy hair
• 'taking' pills
• lots of 'breakdown' shots, jittering, falling to the floor, itching
• More movement than others- some screaming
• Run through the whole sequence 2/3 times to be sure
• Review
• Look through all shots, see if any need to be re-done= hopefully not for continuity
• upload files to each hard drive
• save in a folder
• pack up.

Plan of action for Gaya

Plans for Gaya 


15 second shot of Gaya in normal clothing to represent her normal state and conscious (clearest)Childhood

• In child clothing looking innocent & vulnerable (15 seconds)
• Sucking dummy 
• Playing will Toys (explore various levels with toys)
• Sitting on the floor and drawing
• shows drawing of a happy family 

unconsciousSchool environment

• Sitting on chair with one hand up to answer a question but gets rejected, she looks sad
• Playing rock paper scissors (or toy) by herself whilst looking around 
• Back turned faced towards camera to represent isolation. 
• Sitting on chair whilst huddled up

                                                   Home environment

• Ripping family picture which she drew previously 
• On the floor crying in despair with one hand against her face to protect herself- represent abuse
• Sitting in corner whilst putting a bandage on herself (self-harm also abuse)
• Crying

AdulthoodHospital gown

• In gown for 15 seconds
• Shouting at herself
• medication
• Rocking in corner
• In chair talking to herself to represent therapy treatment 
• Feelling itchy & alert
• Crying

Gaya as a guy

• In boyish clothing-rebellious and rude
• Holding knife
• Acting like a bully 

    Gaya as a criminal

• Holding knife

Adulthoodconscious

• Normal state
• Maybe: picks up a mirror to see all her personality (jump cut)  we can also use ourselves to represent a personality  in this shot- becomes really fast paced and repeats (highlights the development of all her personalities) 

                                       GAYA DROPS TO HER KNEESSS!!!!!!!!!!

Gaya should:

• Wear normal clothes
• have no make up on
• be bare foot 

Building

Super productive day today which Im so happy about!
All thats left now is filming next week and then I'm confident we'll be ready to present.
I'm extremely happy with our progress and how our project is looking at the moment and I think its going to be really successful.

We measured, cut down and sanded our wooden frames today.


 
We cut our pieces of wood down to 42inches, leaving 3 inches of spare wood out of the end of the layers to attach the wire. Sunny made 10 layers, looping the material along the top to create a 'tube' for the wood to go through. Next week we will glue the material to the wood so its secure and to prevent creases.

Props/costume

FIRST SHOT:

• dummy
• pig tails
• teddy bear
• lollipop?
• juice box
• drawn family photo
• on the floor drawing - different levels/heights to play around with in post 

SECOND SHOT:

• hospital gown
• tablets
• tablet bottles
• messy hair
• rocking back and forth on the floor

THIRD SHOT

• Photograph
• lighter
• A4 photo
• If burning a photo doesn't work then she can rip it

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'?

To do

To do tomorrow/this week:

• Buy all needed materials
• Gather props
• Meet with Gaya
• Sort out filming days
• Book studio for filming
• Build
• Decide on last personality
• Story board

Actor Posters

Visual Idea's -Sunny

Scenes disrupting shots 

Childhood memories 

Image result for kid drawing-Dummy 

-Toys- Lego, dolls,yoyo

-marbles/bouncy balls/playdo

-Drawing of family happy (drawn by a kid)

Traumas  & symptoms

Continuous shot

-bashed toy

-Drawing of family separated-death

-Drawing of isolation 

- Feather to represent death

-Foods- bulimia, obesity, anorexia

- medicine- antidepressants or drugs 

-Environments

( in-between shots we can have reactions for example actors acting like kid ect. We can ask actor to express different emotions

Image result for child drawing death

 Full Body

Acting through Continuous shot-

Actor smiling during childhood memories but drops when it becomes intense when trauma  & symptoms appear.

 Amnesia or blackouts (in the absence of substance use)

The person referring to him or herself as "we"

The person being told that they did certain things to don't recall. The person may find unfamiliar objects or samples of strange handwriting.

Sleepwalking and automatic writing (such as those in fugue states)

Auditory hallucinations

Phobias; fear, often undifferentiated

Difficulty in parenting and responding to own children

Problems trusting others

Hostility and anger

A sense of betrayal

Problems with sexual adjustment

Increased levels of sexual behavior

Prostitution

Substance abuse

Idea development - Sunny

Aim of our project: Dissociative identity disorder aims to highlight how people are creating new imaginary identities, hiding their true selves in the blind spot as these characters are controlling the individual due to repressed memories & traumas.

Instillation piece: Layers depicting the strongest personalities to the weakest. This depicts how sometimes the personalities come out very strong or very weak to an individual. Over a certain time period some of the personalities disappear (projection blurry) but some remain (projection clearest point) which is shown through the clarity of the image.

Projection image: -Starting from the eyes and zooms out till the end to see full body image of actor (Throughout this shot the actor will have a blunt facial expression) -The moving image will be disrupted by various images whilst the image is zooming out. -Disrupted images: we can use various objects like toys to represent the childhood memories and then we can get even more deeper representing various traumas.

Nosie Background noise- ambient but various voices disrupting the audio. (maybe muffled)

I really like this idea, especially the slow mo zoom out from extreme close up to full body shot, very slow & dramatic.

Gaya has said she will be happy to be in our project.

Room booking

I emailed Tobi today to book a room for wednesday. I'm hoping wednesday will help us settle on an idea, I know i need something visual to refer to as i feel a bit confused on our idea right now

Plan for Thursday

Thursday 24th November 2016 - Gabie

BONDING DAY

(Exhibition/Clinic Interviews/Searching for materials)

Bring: Camera (photos and videos) interviews with people, Phones for contacting and vlogging, Notebook & Pen for production meeting, Money, Lunch.

Art group

09:30 - Gabie, Aidan, Jess and Max meet outside Northwick Park Station.

            Take the Metropolitain to Barbican and meet Sunny.

10:00 - Group arrive at St Paul’s Cathedral.

• Bill Viola

11:00 - Group goes to Zabludowicz Collection at Chalk Farm Station  (opens at 12)

• Donna Huanca

12:00 - Lunch

01:00 - Group goes to Welcomme Collection at Euston Square Station 

• Bedlam: The Asylum

02:00  

Cultural identity room, identity, installation room 

Tate britain

Tate modern

Knowledge group

Clinics and interviews

The Science museum - who am i 

The freud museum £4

The institute of psychology

materials

(pr) Facebook

Do homework on artist we seeing on thurs

Shooting days (next week)

Harli tree - artist