Torch Test...

..Successful.

I gathered my resources and constructed my idea...

Using a shadow i had already created, i printed out the image smaller, and carefully cut around the smaller image then placed this inside the head of the torch, this then created the results below.

Discovering that this works, i will now decide wether or not to now create scenes of the same style, except i feel i will have to purchase different torch's as the one i have used creates an unnecessary circle in the middle, distracting the viewer away from the images i've created in the light.

Alterations

After the group crit on wednesday it made me think, and as the tutors thoughts were right i wanted to move away from the Glow in the dark material idea, as this would create problems - for example crude words and images could easily be drawn as there will be no supervision, towards this.

So after a night of thinking i've come up with a solution so this is prevented from happening, and yet still keep the interaction in place, I want there to be interaction as i feel, if it was just a plain poster or just something to look at people will then just move on, and then my piece wouldn't communicate with my audience, whereas I want my audience to see this and have something to say about it, rather than just walking past and thinking to themselves, thats good.

So I feel I will create something something similar yet different to Ron Terada, creating the shape of a person and child using Electroluminescent Wire, but then also having a space below for the shadow, to create the contrast of light and shadow.

Interactive Side...

So now we come to the interaction, here to create the shadows, I will create a number of silhouette, proportionate to the size of where the light would come out of the torch, creating the shadows to appear on the wall, these will be quite dark scenes, to get across the fact that the shadow's will then interoperate child abuse, rather than the light which is putting across the joy and happiness a child would bring to PARENTS.

To help get the idea across, i made this image below, using a silhouette from on of my previous experiments, you see i will scale it down, so that it fits on the torch, and when the light is turned on the Shadow figures will appear.

Logo idea??

This was a start to an idea for a logo, here you see the hands and in the background a heart this to symbolise love, then it will move to a child sitting in the hands to show that it receives love, and is cared for. This is the first idea for a logo that will go towards my fictional foster agency.

Creative Review

"We knew from the start that this shoot was going to be really experimental so we spent a long time researching things we'd like to try and test. For the shoot itself we loaded up on anything and everything we could find that we thought would work – confetti, glitter, plastic swords, glow in the dark paint, fishing wire, LED lights and 1000 glowsticks."

Quote from Creative Review

I like how this has been created, combining different techniques and a group of people with different talents, which created something visually, really interesting, the mirrors reflecting the light and colour all creating tiny yet symmetrical effects.

What am i trying to communicate???

For my FMP i'm trying to focus on two subjects relating to the word PARENTS.

Light

With the light, and glow in the dark experiments I was trying to get across the idea of the child becoming the light of the PARENTS life, and how the child may change the perspective of the parent and bring the joy and happiness, so i'm trying to make my piece bring joy and happiness to the audience, hence why i feel an interactive piece will be more suited as people can enjoy the joyment of doing/experimenting, with what i have used but also, to create something visually quite joyful, I am deciding whether or not to use EL wire, similar to Dan Flavin's style of work, which i feel brings a sense of joy because of the light in a darkened area.

Here from www.glow.co.uk, I have found EL wire for £14.95, this might be used to create the shapes i'm looking for, and create a nice light look.

Looking at Ron Terada, he has created a contrast also, using light and shadow, using the words me and you as seen below.

I like this as this is similar to what i'm doing using light and shadows, to create a contrast between the two.

Also similar are Tracy Emin's neon lights, except her work is personally about herself, which creates a very personal feel to her work.

Shadows

With the shadows i'm trying to create the sinister look, showing child abuse and violence toward the child, the retracting from the idea of light, and the turning it around to look at a more sinister side to the parent to child relationship.

Placement?

Here I have come up with the idea of where I could put some of my work and how it may be presented.

Below, i explain how i could use one of the cupboards and use a black curtain, this is to ensure the area stays dark, and within on the walls will be the Light sensitive glow in the dark material, this placed here so that the audience can interact, as the glow messages fade away over time, i have come up with the idea thanks to Saeed, to use Electroluminescent Wire, to create an outline of a pregnant woman, and within more electroluminescent wire to create the outline of the child, this then creates a visual piece as well as an interactive piece for the audience of my work.

Glow Graffiti

Here are some outcomes created through the glow graffiti kit I bought from www.glow.co.uk

I feel the outcomes were quite nice, and i have now developed an idea for how i may want my piece to be presented, which will be posted at a later date.

Also...

The below post has come from failed attempts with a similar concept, except this was software found from a website called www.graffitiresearchlab.com, the software was called laser tag, here a webcam picks up the point of a laser on a surface, and then as this is connected to a projector it then creates a digital image drawn from moving the laser in a certain way.

I attempted to try this with my tutor Simon Gordon, but unfortunately we could not figure out how to get it to work, using a macbook and connecting the webcam it did not seem to respond.

My Package has arrived

This morning my delivery came!

Containing - The 70cm x 70cm glow in the dark material

UV light Spray Can

Stencils

Now the waiting for darkness is on ...

Light Man 2

I then used the silhouette as a guide instead, and drew on the outside of it, this worked better than my previous idea, and preferred the outcomes, but would like to have a proper area to set this up, so that you don't see a living room in the background.

As you can see i also decided to change the light around me, so that it was no longer pitch black, this created a more vibrant image, doing this i used a torch rather than using the main light in the living room as i felt this was to bright.

Neater Light man?

I then went about working out a way to create a light man, that looked neater than the ones i had done before, previously creating a stencil in my lesson, i went onto using that as a guide to see if it would work.

First Experiments:

As it was a stencil, i tried lighting the back of the hollowed out space to create the look, my results are below.

As you can see the outcome didn't come out as i thought, as when the light hits the edge of the cardboard i found that the light spread, and the camera picked up to much of the light that i intended to picture

Motion Experiments

Using the aperture on my Canon eos 350D I began experimenting to see how long i would need to set it, to give a sense of movement. I didn't want to much motion as I needed the image to be visible and the main objects clear, so it was obvious that you could see someone being hurt but also have the effect of speed in the process.

Test 1

I started with the aperture on 6, my result below:

As you can see there was minimal movement displayed, as it took the picture quite rapidly unexpectedly, but there was a nice form appearing on my left arm, I felt I wanted something like that for the whole of the image.

Test 2

I then increased the aperture to 9, my result below:

This created a nicer image, as you can see the blur occurred all over, but once again it seemed to happen quite fast, so i couldn't really get the movement of an arm swinging to hit someone into the image so I tried again, using the same setting...

As you can see this worked well the second time, as there was enough movement and enough of the image picked up, it wasn't to blurry and it upheld the motion feel i was trying to create, i then carryed on experimenting, just to make sure that this would be the best result.

Test 3

Here i then set the aperture onto 13 to see the different outcome:

As you can see, the movement for this was a little bit more rapid than before, I quite like the outcomes, but feel I now need to test real/staged situation's to create my look of an abused child.

Foster/Logo and Poster Research

As i want to create another logo and possible brand, for my own foster agency, i did some research to find a possible style or just to simply help me get inspiration from other ideas..

The main idea for this is light, i want the logo and posters to relate to the light images i had created.. The research is below

Alternative

So then instead of using wax, using the same mould I turned to paper mache, which fingers crossed will work well

Failed Attempt/Experiments

Well, for this one i can only blame myself.

Here using cardboard i created a mould to experiment with wax, i chose to use one of Saeed's letter A as then he would see if he would like to take it down this route of making the letters 3d, for next time i would strongly advise that cardboard is not used, instead use a thick tin, pour the wax into that and then carve the letters out possibly, I think this may be more effective, and there is less chance of being burnt. Here are the images below: