Preproduction Progress
Dean Wright
Director/Producer
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Genre - 3D printing, UCA facility, and persona printer.
Software - CURA for STL output
Process - Autodesk Maya, Blender, Premiere Pro
Duration - Installation
Media - 3D - site specific work
I will be producing three models - these will be approx 9” x 4’ x 4” . The content will be sourced in relation to the locations.
Public House- This artwork intends to provoke it’s viewers to think about Britain's recent litany of Public House closures, by juxtaposing the site of a closed pub, with a miniature depiction of a bustling one, through the creation of a diorama. Pubs are one of Britain's many uniquely wonderful things, and it’s a shame to see so many of them close. A factor attributed to this is the beer tax in the UK, it’s what drives the pint up, and the people out, So I thought I’d tag this diorama with the hashtag ‘#axebeertax’. This hashtag, when searched, gives quite a lot of insight into Britain's pub problems.
Waverley Abbey Ruins- I always see the town's church, across Bishops meadow, on my way into town, it’s an incredible piece of architecture, but in our current era, has become more obsolete, with regular church attendance being in decline, I thought it would make another good reflection about the passage of time.
City regeneration site in Birmingham- More of a personal motivation falls behind this diorama. I grew up near Birmingham, and spent a long time there, due to my college being so close, it’s seen most of my growth and development, and I wanted to capture that in a metaphorical diorama. I’m returning there in January, and I’ll be buying my own 3D printer, so I’ll do all the work for this diorama there, too. I plan to lay out a small section of soil, below the sculpture, which will be of a section of the city, the soil will allow for seeds to grow small plants around the buildings in the diorama, though, this concept needs to be tested first.
Synopsis
Short films documenting, through timelapse, the construction of dioramas within architecture. They will consist of custom 3D printed models, made to recreate a scene taken in a picture. These dioramas will inhabit a public space that juxtaposes the state of the architecture, or represents a message about the space.They will be accompanied by the diegetic sound of the scene being recreated in diorama.
Mood
Detached, melancholic, unbiased observations, thought provoking - meditations on time and the fragility of existence and memory - in the process I am exploring the nature of visual recall - ambiguity of scale.
Treatment
These 3 short films document the process of a 3D being printed, constructed into the larger diorama form, in time lapse to create 3 approx 2-3 minutes films.
The models are semi rough looking, composed of of fine layers of PLA solid -white- coloured.
At first the audience is not aware of what will occur, the sound provides a clue of the location, theme and objects within the diorama (choral music, pub noise, city sounds.)
I will then take the models and construct them into the diorama, at the location and film the process using a DSLR on a tripod roughly real time, these will be short films, establishing still followed by a mid shot of the dioramas area, and a tighter shot for the construction timelapse..
Timeline
- Prototype one object - print beer
- Collect diegetic sounds
- Review - software - editing - Premiere Pro
- Stills of 3 locations
- History of locations, and topics
- How to grow small plant seeds for model 3
- Test camera DSLR
Budget -
Travel- Birmingham, arranged lift.
Waverly Abbey, arranged lift.
Pub, walk.
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