Our Final Film!

This is our final film. Our original intention was to create a film that would cause people to think about the  cotton industry in manchester. How manchester has spread out and grown as a result of the industrial revolution bringing over population and disease. This is shown through printed maps and projected digital imagery of finger prints. The prints hang from bonnets, inspired by the headwear worn in the cotton mills,  reminding the viewer of the people who worked in the mills, and their suffering. To help us make this film we collaborated with interactive arts student Tom Valentine who is also taking part in unit X. 

alterations made to bonnets

After making the bonnets we decided to give the installation continuity that some of the print samples done by Sonia  should be integrated onto them . I simply cut strips and pleated them in the same way I  had with the calico base and attached them over the top. 

installation

 Lois and Sonia's prints were attached inside of the bonnets I had designed. It took a lot of patience to get them to all hang the way we wanted but we were happy with the final outcome. I liked how all the bonnets hung at different levels and how the panels of printed fabric was gathered in places.     

Hear is a photograph of the installation with the digital images made by Harriet projected onto them. This gives the installation a mood and atmosphere like id hoped.   

Stop-Motion Film

We filmed this stop-motion video using Lois's hand-drawn, large-scale map, and blue acrylic painted fingers.
We wanted to highlight our ultimate idea which we have been working towards and around for the duration of our project, thinking about the crowded housing around Hulme and within the City Centre where there were lots of warehouses all clustered together. From this, we began thinking of the spread of germs and disease which existed at this time, due to the overpopulated areas.
We used the colours red and blue because they are the colours we have all used throughout our work, highlighting germs.
We used stop-motion filming because it helps to show the speed and direction of growth of a hypothetical disease spreading.

Pictures taken during filming

I really like how we were able to create such a detailed shadow on the back board i think it looks really interesting and was something we have shown in our video

Preperation for the film

Testing out if the prints look good inside the bonnets

Hanging our bonnets and prints up in ouro filming room

Pictures for final film

My photoshopped designs were used in the fliming to be projected onto the back board creating a multitude of effects to produce a mysterious and exciting film. The colours of the prints emphaise the lighting and allowed a range off colours to be projected through the film.

Here are a few off the photos projected.

This print worked really well due to the brigh colours