This week we discussed what we would like to produce towards the end of the project. I would like to continue with photoshop designs, but also get into the print room to do some screen printing work. Alex agreed that foiling would be appropriate for the Daft Punk theme, and suggested printing a matt surface onto shiny fabric to get the opposite effect as well as trying to use the rough side of printer acetate to pigment print on. As there is a month left, he said it's time to start printing, so I have prepared the following designs on acetate to put onto screen:
I tried to include a range of marks, with hard and soft edges, in groups or as single images so that there will be enough to make a variety of combinations.
To make some more interesting marks and images, I plan to continue taking photographs using the OHP and incorporating my sourced reflective materials and lights. Also I will use a black fabric piece I previously knitted as a background for photos, as it draws in the hand-made feel that encompasses lace and the dark colours of TRON, along with texture and a hint of a domestic interior. Using shiny thread in knitting could provide another source of reflection, and I could try weaving it into the black knitted piece.
The two initial designs I did in photoshop were too light in colour, and although they do capture the mood of the soft undertones at the beginning of 'the game has changed' (which to me echo the start of Schubert's unfinished Symphony) they don't convey the overall feel of the piece, or of TRON. The finished one below could still be incorporated as part of a darker collection though, in order to show the range of the music. Also in Photoshop Image, Adjustments, Levels can be used to darken an existing image, or Image, Adjustments, Invert, or Hue/Sat to also alter the colour.
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