For this project Gameplay, I struggled to find a direction in this project. I wasn’t sure until I discussed it with one of the tutors that I decided to explore the paper game, Exquisite Corpses. I found it interesting how each time you get a different combination of body parts; I found it was like creating a character. I decided to create more exquisites corpses myself. I drew heads on five different pieces of paper then folded them over before mixing them up and asking a friend to pick one and draw the body. I did this finished these are the results:
I realised that creating characters I something all of us have done mostly as children. Playing pretend and becoming a new person. Thought not only children do this, adults do as well, putting on a ’mask’ acting like a different person around someone, online games when people create online Avatars. Actors, as well who play parts within movies.
It form this idea that I decided to explore this be filming four peers and asking them questions about their childhood. What was their favourite game as a child, favourite cartoon, favourite superhero and great fear, and do a pose while answering relating to their answer. I then took stills of the footage and made them draw on them. This was interesting as I got an insight to them as some took their time drawing while others just drew little.
I made a video exquisite corpse just to see how it would look, it was hard to make but looked good at the end.
I wanted to explore the idea of becoming the characters we see and create so again I took the footage I filmed and created an animation using Photoshop to paint over the clips. I happy how they came out, and I learned a valuable lesson on how much time has to be dedicated to animation.
From this I wanted to try and capture people with out them knowing so that I capture there hidden traits that they show no one. The comment that I received from this footage made me change my idea of my final work. I was told that it looked similar to CCTV footage so i decided to take that route.
I filmed more footage making sure it looked like CCTV footage of the studio space in the National
Glass Centre. Then I took small parts of all the footage and and added fun little short animations with in it. The idea was to have the audience watch this and see these short animations and having to watch the whole animation to have a second look at what they saw.
The original final work was 10 minutes long but I have shortened it so i could up load it as the file was so big.
I am not overall happy with this project as I feel as if i lost my way with it. But I am happy with my final work as it does what I wanted it to do.
The artist and research that i looked at for this project includes Jake and Dino Chapman, Carl Jung and Sigmund Frued ‘s theory on alter egos, Is Tropical The Greeks and the Coca Cola CCTV Advert.
My final work had a chance to be included in the Informer Exhibition that took place outside our studio spaces. The exhibition included a number of students form our Art and Design Foundation Course and their final outcomes for Gameplay.
RebeccaYoung 