Creation of Narrative Artefact

For the project, our group decided on making artefacts that we can then use and produce into a film showing how we are all contributing to our own destruction. For this, my job was making a painting on a canvas and getting many different angle videos of the creation of this so that Jess has loads of videos to work with for the film. For the painting, it could have been of anything as the story is about how we create lovely things. For this, I wanted to add a backstory behind the painting itself to give double meaning to the piece. Our ideas are to show the tools and materials and how this is adding to climate change and destruction, but, I also decided to show our initial research in this painting and try and show the emotion of wildfires.

This is the final painting and you can see I used many colours splashed on the canvas in an abstract way changing angles of brush strokes to create soft and hard feelings.

Here are some videos I took to show the process of working with close-ups and slow Mo, mainly experimenting with how I can present my painting.

With this video, I created a slow-mo of mixing paint for the canvas as I thought it would be cool to see and also shows the components making up the painting.
Video showing the brush strokes at the beginning of the painting process.
Again, this video is showing brush strokes. One thing before making the canvas we all talked about in a call was to use many close-up shots of the paintbrush on the canvas. For this, I took many videos close-up trying different strokes and movements.
Adding white highlights to the painting.
Close-up adding the red and yellow to symbolize wildfires.

Overall, I had so much fun creating the painting and felt it was a great learning experience for me as I’ve never really experimented with video before when painting. Jess specializes in this subject as she does media and she was a big help in leading me through this process by telling me what to record and all the elements she wanted to make our video the best it can be.

Now I have complete the videos I have given Jess the best amount of time she can get to put together the video to allow it to share our narrative for the final presentation.