DSDN 141: Project One

Storyboard

This is my storyboard that I designed for project one. It simply explains my ideas on what I did and what experiments I have conducted with paper.

DSDN 141: Project One

Final Images

With my first surface I chose to layer the paper really thickly almost the size of a short book. I then burnt each page, and got rid of the ash. This is what I came up with. I like how the pages turned into a different colour and looked more 3D, giving it an awesome surface to look at.  

My second experiment was simply cutting paper and shredding it. I chose to work with this surface because it really defined itself throughout the photo I have taken, giving it matching shadows and patterns. This is my favourite image and I have gotten good feedback from it during my presentation.

My last surface was me experimenting with paper and water. This is my version of the paper mache, once again layering the paper on top of each other whilst it's been soaked in water. This gave it a really cool surface where some of the paper looked like it had a lighter opacity than the rest, plus the random layers gave it a cool light effect.

DSDN 141: Lab 2

Photography: Failure

For this lab we had to experiment with a material and push it's properties until it basically fails as a material. I chose glass in this instance. I dropped a shot glass smashing into pieces, this shows that glass fails as a material if it is hit too hard, and it unusable afterwards. 

DSDN 141: Project One

Development

I further developed my ideas with paper, because it seemed like an interesting material to investigate. I messed around with a phonebook at first, trying to saw it in half and cut it into pieces, but that was unsuccessful. So i decided to burn the pages to see what would happen and what it turned out like afterwards. It gave a really cool contrast and textured effect throughout the surface. I tried this again with normal white photocopy paper, within this experiment I noticed that it showed up more through the normal white paper, making it look cooler. Throughout the developments I also continued to look at wood, hammering down and squashing it which gave it a rough surface in the end.

DSDN 141: Lab 1

Draw

For the first lab of this paper, we had to look and investigate the properties of paper. We weren't allowed to make an object that was recognizable, so we pretty much had to screw up a bit of paper and draw it to our extent. This is what I came up with for the first lab.

DSDN 141: Experiment One

Contact Sheets: Experiment One

I started experimenting with several different materials to see which one showed up the most effective. I wanted to show mainly the positive attributes of the certain materials I was looking at, along with the negative outcomes that came out, showing them with high quality photos.