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House of Illustration

V&A

Weekend away in Manchester

GD Lecture with ex UEL students

You've Got to Get Up to Get Down

For this project we were asked to come up with a new dance step and hairstyle.

This is a link to the film 'Koyaanisqatsi' (Life out of balance) which inspired me to create my own timelapse. 

http://vimeo.com/21922694

The timelapse goes on for 8 minutes, a compilation of journeys in my car, to sitting in a coffee shop, to the trees 'dancing' in the wind. it is in a crude way, the dance of life, my life.

I decided to do something different. A sleep dance. Initially I intended to make timelapse videos of people sleeping, however I had little co-operation from friends and family members.....I filmed myself, but it proved a little difficult to sleep in a head scarf:

So I made a model of a person using the Vetruvian man as my guide, and I drew this in Illustrator.

I made a model bed from grey card, and had sewn together a bed cover and pillows.

From the model movements I made a flipbook using tracing paper and carbon paper to make the drawings, and each move was given a name. 

 

These were then traced into Illustrator to give these crisper drawings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the final poster/leaflet. The poster makes up the sleep dance hairstyle, it's a combination of all the movements.