Monday, 30 December 2013

Looking for an old photos

These are some Bournville women that I found:









As I am going to make my images with screen print the photographs don't need to be a very good quality ones as I will need to bitmap them. But I there are not many images on the Internet so I will go to the Birmingham Library to find more.

The prototype





Second part of the Bournville Village project

The second part is a PRINT. It can be anything : a booklet, poster, small book and etc.

I thought about making a booklet but after one to one tutorials I changed my mind. The new idea is to make something like 'paper version of Photoshop' as this program was the main toll in my video. As Photoshop has many layers I decided to have one image (a portrait) in different colours printed on a semi see-through paper :

    
When you put these layers on top of each other you can create different colours. Later on I improved my idea and decided to have more images than one portrait. It would still be the same image but separated - on one just the hair, on the other one just the face. This is the prototype :

The picture that I used:


As I was creating the prints with silk screen print I had to change the image into black and white and then bitmap it:


then I created different layers:




For my final I will make more layers, add some nowadays accessories - hat, earrings and etc. The colours I am using: magenta, cyan, yellow and black.


The format is going to be A4 and all of the layers are going to be presented as a box book. Something like in the image below but I want the box to have a simple separated lid.


I am still not sure if I should leave the box simple looking and in the brown cardboard colour or change it into Photoshop background like this:




For my prototype I used a random image, but I would like to go back to my original idea and back to Bournville Village. I believe there should be some old pictures of  Bournville women.


Final video

My final video:

 
The Unchanging from Valda Repcyte on Vimeo.

 I still have a feeling that it is a bit too long. I edited this video with Adobe Premier program and all video clips are speeded to the maximum. I will try to cut some bits and pieces out and make it shorter.