Jennifer Workshop (Cardboard City)

For our first lesson, we went down to the 5th floor to create images of already existing scenery, whilst videoing it using time-lapse. Once we had enough footage, we were able to add our own little scenarios to the scenery, whilst also documenting the changes to the backdrop as it appeared.

When finished, we travelled back up into the class room to create silhouettes by laying down on huge sheets of paper, whilst somebody else draws around you. We then selected two figures, one from either side of the room to draw onto a sheet of A4 paper. Then after chosing one of the two, we recreated the shapes out of wire, afterwards using thinner, coloured wire to make a brain, heart and set of lungs for them. 

We then got up and walked around the room together as somebody filmed the top half of our bodies using time lapse and somebody else filmed only our legs. Later, we set the camera up once again on time lapse, and each took a turn to walk past it while doing a silly walk and stand in a line out of shot with the rest of our class mates.

The next session, we created comic strips for the Zoetrope for an hour. We got into partners to create 2 sets of 6 images that depict a short story, so we could when complete, create movement. Once the first 6 images were created on the first 6 squares, they were re-drawn accurately on the other 6 squares with the exception that the order was mirrored. We then tested a few to see if they worked.

 In another session, we created forts made of cardboard as a warm up to get us familiar with constructing with boxes. We then demolished them to use them to create a large pyramid which we had to work together and communicate as a class to construct to its strongest and largest scale without it falling apart.

Once complete, we then demolished the pyramid and reused the boxes to create a large theatre (Theater d'ombre) in order to watch a light show made using the wire figures that we made during our first week. The figures were moved and shaken as we documented this by using slow motion, time lapse or taking a series of pictures that create the look of the images moving.
Once finished taking pictures and everyone had the chance to see/ participate in the light show, we allowed a few students to tear it apart from the inside whilst the rest of us filmed from different angles, using different methods (slow motion or otherwise).

 This week, we travelled down to the Matisse exhibition in Barnsley for a short time, to take pictures of buildings in the area as well as to gather information on the artist and his pieces. Once we were content that we had enough information and we were confident that we could create something using the pictures gathered as information, we returned to the class room to begin on cardboard box art pieces inspired by Matisse and Samantha Groom. Here are some photographs taken from the day and also some pictures of the boxes as they begin to take the shape of what I had imagined, as they are not yet complete;

 

 

For our final lesson, we were asked to create shapes out of cardboard whether it be scenery made up or otherwise, buildings, nature etc. Any shape that would allow light to come thorough and shine through the coloured acetate to create coloured shapes to shine through the gaps/ shapes we cut out to create images much like Boltansky. Many people chose to create images of the church outside or existing buldings, whereas we decided to create a silhouette of a city full of tall buildings with many windows like the scenery you would see in large cities like New York at night.