the context of an artwork's presentation has always mattered.(part two) possible idea

Ive been thinking about HOW to exhibit my stop frame piece, and i have a lot of conflicting ideas, my initial idea of it being displayed as a piece of street art has become harder and harder for me to visualise in a  gallery/studio setting- to display the piece or to display documentation of the piece in its intended surroundings has been a hard obstacle  to overcome. As im working in miniature and want that sense of scale to come across to the viewer i want them to be close to the actual screen something which i don't feel will come across if i use a monitor or project it- so ive been thinking about the possibility of using a mobile phone or an ipod screen so that the viewer actually has to hold it in their hands. With this in my mind i have been playing around with how this would work will have have multiple hand held screens or just one? and how will that work? my latest idea is to have iphones or phones that can access applications and use them as a way to download my film, and that the viewer has to go through the motions of actually download it themselves. So instead of having the actual film in the exhibition i will have a phone and a Q R code or multiple Q R Codes and the viewer will have to  scan the code on the phone and access the film in that way. I am unsure if this is quite way i should display it but will try it out at my crit on Monday and see if it works the way in which i intend it to.

This is a Q R code, that will take you to my fmp pitch stop frame animation.

Chewing Gum

So i have applied the second coat of silicone this time adding a small amount of hardener and brushing it onto the individual figurines, its pretty much like trying to paint with chewing gum, but hopefully after leaving them overnight to set i will be able to start casting them in resin. However i am a bit hesitant as they only have a very thin layer and i am unsure just how it will work - as i have never cast anything so small before and neither has Andy so will just have to wait and find out what tomorrow brings ....

The covershot

We have been working towards the cover for a while now, getting the instillation ready has been a big group effort, inparticular Beverly, Amy, Brad and Andrew have worked so hard to get the instillation the way we have originally planned it, So this week is when the hard work pays off. We had always envisioned the instillation being set up in the studio so that the students would feel a sense of owernership over the book - our studio and the instillation everyone had helped to make. The Graphic boys now envision it differently to us, they want to shoot it in the lecture theatre- not only is this not what we had planned but the logistical problems with moving it could possibly ruin the actual piece itself as it is only held together with glue. But as we see this as a collaborative concept we met in the lecture theatre and both argued out the pro's and con's as we see then. After about an hours long disscussion we all agreed that we would go for the studio option and if we couldn't get a shot that everyone was happy with then we would use the lecture theatre which we booked out for friday as our back up plan - so we had four days to get the shot. fist task was clearing space in the studio which we did as a group, second take to get the instillation to actually stand up which only took a surprisingly small amount of fishing wire. so far so good until....
Day one
Brad and Andrew spent an entire day trying to get the shot we had disscussed and they managed to get one we were all very pleased with- i left them to carry on taking extra shots at 7:30   after emailing the graphics boys the shot we liked only to find out that they hadn't been shooting it in raw and the image resolution was not good enough to be enlarged to fit across the two cover pages.
Day Two
After waiting until it was dark outside (because a portion of the studio windows are in shot and we liked the lighting once daylight had faded) a second photoshoot took place we got the shot emailed it to the boys. job done..... or so we thought until i got home and had an email from adam saying ......'Why can't your boys shoot in raw' - erm stomach dropping time - Andrew arrived at my house at 10pm after finding out that the image wasn't usable. After getting the original images from andrew, and finding out they they were infact shot in raw and where entirely usable, we decided to just get on with it ourselves and put the image over the cover layout, send it to Adam telling them this was the one we wanted. Poor Andrew and Brad had spent ages trying to get the perfect shot and i was getting more than a little fed up with the attitude we where getting from Adam.
Day Three
Met in our studio at 10, instillation still set up from previous night, Andy (tutor from photography) Andrew, Brad, Myself, Adam, Luke and Dan- together we made a few tweeks to the set up and finally got the shot we wanted.
here are some of the hundereds of photographs that where taken,

Le pope

For my final stop frame animation as a comment on the pope now allowing contraception under strict circumstances- allowed for prostitutes but apparently not as a cure for AIDS- hmmmmmmmmmm......

The casting Process begins....

After talking to Andy the technician and explaining what i want to achieve we came up of a way of getting what i want, although he does think I'm slightly crazy to be attempting it, but hey I'm not going to let a little thing like that stop me. So first things first, plugging up all the in between leg spaces with clay, so i can release all the little dudes out of there molds

Then standing them on a tiny amount of clay, which will ultimately give me a larger space to pour the resin in to once the silicone has set 

And now for the fun part, covering them in silicone, 

And thats all i can do with this for today, have to leave them to set and i will go back tomorrow to add a second layer 

Amazing ident using miniature figurines

I feel that this ident shows just how little you have to show a viewer before they understand what they are seeing- just a few small hints and you know what your looking at before it tells you. Finding the iconic  image is key in this being successful. which plays into what i am doing for my final animation, choosing well recognised moments in recent history to create a film that highlights well the meaningless of life

mini Sadam