Yan - Brief 3

A Movie Box - GROWING

The movie box of Brief 3 project is about re-creating my home experience by making a model installation with artificial lights. I began this project with the experiences of Brief 1 and 2 exercises in model making, lighting design and stop animation etc. and also some inspiration from some lighting installation artists.

Documentation

Different from experiencing my home by video of making a cup of tea of Brief 1, I start to document the inside and outside environment of my home by photograph.

outside surrounding environment

shadows inside my home 01

shadow inside my home 02

I found this piece is quite interesting; it is the shadows of trees outside reflect on the window shade of my kitchen. I document the shadow changes in different time.

Materials

A shoe box, silver foil shred, wood strips, different colors transparent plastic paper

model making process

material test

Through the documentation and also the idea of home experience, I decide to design an installation which re-creates my experience in the home. I collect the elements of TREE, LIGHT and the MOVEMENT to represent my feeling of the word GROWING – as it expresses my home memories grow when the time goes.

Lighting

video stills

lighting design exercises from Brief 2, which influenced me to do the lighting test of the model installation.

lighting test of model installation

I use variety of artificial lights to test how lights would appear in the box 

Technology

                                             model making

model of home from Brief 1 excersice

 

installation model

Video

For the final video, I will use stop animation learned from Brief 1 exercise to make a video with the installation model.

stop animation exercise from Brief 1

moviw stills - final movie

light installation model movie