Creative Practice 2

In this first image you can see that I have made 4 duplicates of my final concertina design. I wanted at least 4 so that I could print on all of them and seem which one has the best outcome. As I was creating them I realised it was hard to fold on the pages that had multiple layers so a few of these came out not as neat as they could have.  As you can see I made sure to hide the extra layer of card. This was done by the edge of the paper exactly where the fold would be. Making all 4 of these was an incredibly long process but I am glad I done multiple as now I more room for experimentation.    This is the title I have designed for the front cover. I plan on doing the same on the back cover. but the opposite way round.  I also did it in a brighter green, however it could look too bright. 

  For my final piece I want the cover of this design to start off orange and the back cover to be green. On the orange, I want the title to be in green too. I have decided the title will be 'Turning Green' or 'Feeling Green'.   I then started to experiment with how high up I wanted the shadows of the audience in the foldout. At first I tried 3cm high but that would be too small for the surrounding areas. I then tried 5cm which would be slightly too high and would cover the statues in the middle of the page. Then for the final size I decided on 4cm so that the audience will never overlap the statues too much.  In this photo and the previous photo, you can see where the paper overlaps when two section are put together. In the final design, I will glue a piece of the card over the top to cover this and make it more neat.   In this photo, you can see I'm experimenting with the size of the hinge for the black paper to be attached. As you can see, the card is cut...

  Here's my development of the story. I have made the statues more detailed with line work. As well as this I have also made sure the audience clearly look interested towards both statues. As you can see below the completed image there is the different colours divided ready for the screen printing. I have decided that the orange, black and green will be ink instead of paper.  But the people will be laser cut.  Heres the next segment of the story. As you can the audience are blocking out the statues and I am not sure whether this looks too messy.  In this image, the crowd isn't distracting. It is clear what they are representing.  The crowd in this segment do look like they are blocking the view of the statues, so when I further develop this I will bring the statues higher up.  The people look fine in this segment however, for continuity I will have to move the statues up as well.  Again, this segment looks fine. But to solve the problem for a few I wil...

In my meeting with Debbie Wigglesworth.  I knew I wanted to test out more paper sample for my project. I needed to look into cloths that I wanted to bind my concertina with and I also was interested in finding out different paper I could use for the statues.  I came up with the idea of using a green cloth to cover the front and back of the folded format. The cloth that Debbie found was from  Fedrigoni Imitlin, called Verde Edera E/R05 Tela and it was 125gsm. I really like the texture of this cloth and will be emailing them about the possibility of getting samples.  However, when looking at the Fedrigoni Imitlin website, I found a bright orange cloth which could also work in my project.  It's known as Arancio, E/R05 TELA and it's also 125gsm. I could use the orange as the front cover and the green as the back cover. I think if I did this I would like the orange to have a title on called "Turning Green" in a green ink.  Debbie Wrigglesworth also found this pa...

I decided to try out just drawing straight on to the green paper to see how clear it would make the images.  1. a) In this experiment, I test out using copper flakes against the green, I think using a little bit of flakes is effective.  1.b) However, in this version I wanted to show that the statue is fully copper and turning green. Instead of this experiment looking how I intended it to go. It was the complete opposite. It looks messy and unclear as to what it is.  2. a) I then decided I wanted to try and use posca pen to draw on top, this is because it would be the closest to what printing ink would look like. I wanted to try orange on green for the outline to see if I preferred to using white. I think that it could look interesting, however I'm not fully convinced.  2. b) Just using ink instead of copper flakes makes the image clear and It wouldn't be hard to do.   Here's my experiment with using acrylic paint with lino. I didn't have any ink on hand so ...

Because I have two different ideas for this project going forward. I wanted to makes tests for both. These tests are for the folded format design with pop outs of the audience.  1. a) Here's the first size I wanted to experiment with. Because it's a folded format, I initially wanted to design it in a square format too. This is 9 x 9cm. I wanted to test a small design because I want it to be compact and when it's fully open, you can easily see the full design.  1. b) This is a 13 x 13cm format. I wanted a slightly bigger size to tell the difference between the two.  2. b) As you can see in this picture I added slits in the middle to be folded inwards and for an easy position for the pop out to be placed.  3. b) I added a quick template of the people to glue on top of "b". However, It was too high up and I decided to make the decision to cut the folded format in half. The dimensions for "b" are now 13 x 7cm per section. When I did this I realised I much pr...

  Concertina Now I have my storyline, I need to put it in to context with my format decision. This first one, and my preferred choice would be Concertina. It is an effective way to show the progression of the story. And having cutouts in different sections, can be very appealing and interesting for the viewer.  Lino printing could be a simple but effective way of printing the colours, however, I want my green to be bold and not patchy by the end of it.  Laser cutting paper is another way forward with the storyboard, this would make the line sharp and precise. It would be more effective than lino. I also think that screen printing is a good idea for the characters to look sharp and statue like.  Here's me experimenting with different formats. The first one being the Japanese binding technique, the second being a concertina design. The third being a simple stitching technique.  In this you can see that the camera is struggling to represent the green colour in this...