Visual Practice 4 - OHP Genius try out

The below 2 photos are of the cut outs we have drawn and scissored out, which when placed onto the OHP create shadows that then piece in the picture of the woodland forest we are aiming for. We drew on sugarpaper and cut out shapes of tree's, a wolf, toadstools, birds and other various woodland related things. We also cut out a saxophone (showed below in purple) and a trilby hat, that we can place in the woods as subtle signifyers of the folk/indie/ska genre we have with our music video.

The below picture is what the above cut out tree's look like when on the OHP, projected onto the wall. You may see the small leaf on one of the upper brances, as we wanted to see if we could add leaves to the tree as a nice effect. Caroline also cut out some extra paper and placed it on the tree, on the lower brance, which when projected looks amazingly like a nest.
We are very proud of this form of shadow puppetry as it has allowed us to create a simple -to-use and effective form of animation.

This picture shows the name of the band "The Wild Wolves" with the moon as the "o" in the word "Wolves". We have also added a tree below, for the forest effect as this is meant to be the sky above the forest, with little stars dotted around. We created this in a similar way as the above picture, however with the opposide use of the paper. We cut out a piece of sandpaper to fit the size of the OHP screen, and used compasses to poke holes in the paper, forming the band name in the sky. We then poked random holes around this title to create the star effect, and cut a bigger hole for the "o" so it looks like the moon. We also cut up from the bottom of the paper, to create a tree like cut out from the paper, so it looks like a glowing tree, with dots of leaves around (these also made with compasses).

This next picture is the same as above, however we tried the idea of the tree coming out from the side of the paper, to see if it looked better or more effective, also so we could smoothly move the shot down and the tree could disappear, whereas the above one the tree would just be cut off. This was thought helpful as we could have easily brought up the name of the song, however now (25/09/09) we have an updated idea of how to get to the title name and woods, which is mentioned in a later blog post.

This is the picture of the title of the song, "Moon Song", which like the above picture, is formed from holes in the paper appearing as stars, and a "glowing" tree. We were trying this out because we thought we should display the title of the song in a similar fashion to the artists name. We thought we could pan down (or make it seem like the camera is panning down, by moving the paper cut outs upwards and out of the camera's vision) from the artist name to the song name, and then cut to the woods with some clever transition.

This is the wood scene (following 2 photos), created by cut out sugar paper, and a cut out of a wolf. Overlapping these with a grassy bottom, creates a nice woodland scene into which we can interpret generic signifiers such as trilby hats, musical instruments or other woodland creatures for visual effect. The 2nd picture includes a squirrel and a bird, as we tried to cut out creatures that would look like what they are meant to on the OHP, which proved difficult.

The below picture shows the OHP we are using, whilst it is turned on with a tree and some grass on it. The picture shows the one peice of equipment we are mainly using to make our animation all it can be.