Drawing with the sewing machine.

After I was introduced to iMovie, I wanted to explore on iStopmotion, but the university does not have the software I need to work with iMovie, which means live action movies. I then realized filming with live action I am still able to make it look like still images and really expand on the idea of time.

I have realized my strong point is within the embroidery area, I have started to use the rides in Blackpool Pleasure Beach as templates, to help me to develop. I have used line drawing to draw out the ride then used the sewing machine as a tool to draw and overlap them.



Figure 1: Personal image, drawing of the ride.

 

 

Figure 2: Personal image, my overlapping experiment.

 

 

 

I see film as a ground to work with, but with limited budget, what I did was to photocopy the film onto paper, then cut them out into the same size as a roll of film, then I stitched on top of it with both machine stitch and handstitch. See figure 3 and 4.

 

 

Figure 3: Personal image, Stitching onto papers.



Figure 4: Personal image, stitching onto papers.

From a distance people actually thought I used real film instead of paper. With the filming, I was filming about the process of making, but then I was interested in the performers in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, but when I tried to combine the film of the process of making and the dance performance together in iMovie, it does not feel related.

 



Figure 5: Personal image, the overall view of the long scroll paper/ Working space.

I photocopied some sections that I like on the long scroll paper and this way it helps me to capture the moment and it helps me to develop sections that work more.