Today I collaborated with another student to create a piece of work. The student that I collaborated with is interested in animation and had an idea of combining a piece of Len Lye inspired film with their animation. Obviously I have already created a film like this before, so therefor I could have taken the footage that I had and used it again, but I decided that I could experiment more with different materials, colours and lighting to see if I could achieve something more creative.
Whereas I only used food colouring on my last experimentation I decided that I wanted to use different types of materials. I still had some food colouring left from last time so I did use it but not as frequently as last time. I used materials such as; powdered paint, cooking oil, ink, and washing up liquid.
Before we started recording we set up the studio and lit the container that we would be using. We decided that yellow would be a neutral colour to the light the container. We dropped oil into the water first so that it would separate from the water and float on the top. When the powdered paint was thrown onto the water the colours also didn't mix with the oil either, which created aesthetically pleasing patterns and surreal shapes on the water. We then added washing up liquid as it reacted with the oil and colours forcing them to move away from the liquid. The washing up liquid also created bubbles on the water which was an added bonus. We continued to add materials to the water and mix them around.
As we were setting up the studio I decided to take a few images for evidence, but then I had a thought, why not film us doing it? I set up the camera so that they were all focusing on the container and asked another student to vision mix the piece to show how we went about what we did. It was a great idea because it is not always easy to tell how something was done from looking at images.
Tomorrow I hope to upload the footage onto the computer and edit the piece which I probably take a few days to do so.
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