FA7036 - Model-making workshop with architecture students

On 15th January 2016 animation and architecture students collaborated to experiment with set designs such as creating a certain atmosphere or narrative with them The video above shows the construction of the set as well as a light dimming test and an animation test. One example of how an architecture-inspired piece uses atmospheric features is the TV advertisment for TV Licensing that is similar to the billboard below. The circuit board resembles a city scape and the sound of a helicopter gives users the feeling of surveillance as if the people in the helicopter are looking for those who have not paid for their TV License.

Materials I brought in included cereal boxes, plastic Pots of Joy tubs, a Cadbury Amaze Bites tub and Graze snack punnets. Initial ideas I thought of were making buildings out of the cereal boxes and using the Graze punnets as windows. Although different ideas emerged within my group, another group used one of my Pots of Joy as a base of a crane.

While architecture students had already made cardboard models of houses and buildings, animation students helped them by adding features to them made of junk such as orange plastic for kayaks. Below are several photos documenting the process of bulding around the set designs:

One way I could apply this workshop to my MA major project is to build a set design using the remaining materials I brought into university to build an exterior background for scenes tat take place outside such as one of me reacting to someone smoking.

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