This week has been very focused on finishing my collaborative piece with Joe. This has been imperative as the opening night of the Exhibition is Thursday. Therefore all elements of the set needed to be done by tuesday or wednesday by the latest. Once back in the studio on Monday, there was much to do in terms of adding more furniture, preparing it all to be able to stand and constructing the walls of the set itself. I will give a brief summary of the week's activities...
Monday: Planned out and made a sideboard for the set. I was able to incorporate some new textures I had bought in Reading last week.
Making stands for the furniture. I used a simple method of triangle shapes to support the papercut. The papercut itself was also backed with card. I also tried to glue the walls to the base. However, the walls itself were very delicate and needed supports. With 9pm looming, I decided to leave this and continue on Tuesday.
Tuesday was spent trying to put supports onto all of the furniture. I came to the realisation that some of the chairs I had made were at an angle therefore could not stand. I was very annoyed at myself at this point, especially this was a problem that I had been faced with earlier in the project and I had not kept this in mind. I think the main issue is that don't consider the image i am look at as 2D and what i need to make is 3D. In a 2D image everything I make needs to be at an angle to suggest perspective and depth. However when being made for a set, if the image is flat, it needs to made like a front elevation in a technical drawing as its positioning that gives it perspective in an image.
Solution:
-I cut off the original armchair legs and remade some new ones that were more in line. This in turn made it easier for me to make backing and stands for them.
-On the office chair, I added a rug under the chair legs to make it easier for it to stand.
-The table and chairs were secured onto one of the walls that Joe had created, which of course were 2D therefore the angled perspective makes more sense.
- The male character was too small in comparison to the kitchen counter Joe had made. As a solution, I attached a velcro pad and secured the paper cut that way.
Joe and I also started to integrate our pieces by adding extra imagery onto each others elements. For example Joe made a plant pot to go on my table and chairs and I made a clock to go on one of his walls.
There was also a meeting to discuss how each of would present our pieces. As you can see in the above image, Joe and I experimented with the piece being on a plinth. Although it was way too big and the illusion of the alternative world was lost. it has been discussed that we could attach the set to a corner of a room so it floats at eye level. This avoids the audience also being to see the stands keeping the papercuts upright.
it was also realised that the furniture did not all fit within the space. The office chair and sideboard were both put aside. We also realised that the TV (an extra papercut I made on the monday evening) did not fit within the lounge space without being squashed. The corner of the plinth sparked an idea to have an extra space come out from the set, as sometimes is seen in Theatres. This was planned out in cardboard and attached to the set with a couple of layers. All of these problems are good practice for my possible final sets I plan to make in the last few weeks of my Major project.
Wednesday: The last day of making.
Focus was on getting the set all finished and all the finished touches completed. Joe got on with making a rug for the protruding stage in the set. I decided to make extra touches such as a plant pot for the plant Joe had made. This was to go on the left hand edge of the set to both frame the side and direct the audience's view to the characters within the scene. I also made a hoover to be attached to the other edge of the set (see sketchbook to see sketches). Little details such a cigarette and beer can was also created and added to the female papercut as seen below...
This photograph above was posted today on Instagram and seemed to get a lot of good response from my peers and other creatives that follow me- This was overall relieving to see that my work was getting a positive response.
The rest of the day was spent securing the walls stayed upright and wouldn't break during the three day exhibition. Brackets were also bought by one of the organisers, Nicole. Therefore, i knew the bottom would be supported and the walls would rest of the corner walls of the exhibition.
These are examples of supports made for the set. They consisted of thick cardboard to support the greyboard Joe had stuck his paper walls onto.
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