Monday, 15. March 2010
Indoor Activity
Unbelievably, two weeks has already passed since my last post... How is this possible? I guess I know. Instead of working on the Orpheus film I did a lot of other, important as well as unimportant things... At some point I was so annoyed by myself that I simply started making backdrops again.
Remember? Two weeks agao I finished a small bedside cabinet, and today finally some other fittings followed: I finished a dresser and a table, two chairs and a vase of flowers with their heads hanging down sadly.
After finishing the pieces I thought it would be great to take some pictures to see how they’d work in front of a camera. And what should I say? I’m absolutely thrilled by how well it all comes together! This is exactly the dreamy and organic paper world I want to create.
I used cardboard in different thicknesses for all plain surfaces as I did for the bedside stand. Even the vase is made of a food storage carton (I guess it was a frozen pizza box...) and it wasn’t as easy to make as it now seems to be. Organic elements like the table’s legs are made of several strings of loosely twisted wire which I covered with a thin layer of sandwich paper.
For the floral elements attached to the table and the flowers in the vase I used tiny branches of a corkscrew hazel. I coated them in a semi-opaque layer of white acrylics to achieve a papery look. I found it very difficult to design the house of a wood nymph because they’d normally live, well, in the woods... But this one, Eurydice, married and moved into a house... So I try to make it as organica and close to nature as possible but yet house-like.
Their home still needs some more attention, furniture and details. At the moment it doesn’t provide
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a door
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a window
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a bed
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curtains
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a fireplace
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a picture frame
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a bridal dress
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some light sources and
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the room itself with walls and floor.
Since I took the pictures today, I’m soo enthusiastic about moving on. I’d love to see the final setting as soon as possible. I am as ecited as you are to see what I’m going to finish next week... What do you think about a window and some curtains?
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Leo wrote on Monday, 15. March 2010 at 22:34:
Definitely looks great! I especially like the matching coloring and lighting, they create a very harmonic image (no pun intended). Just make sure not to "overcrowd" the scenes, or people will not be able to concentrate on the details anymore... (by the way, the floor already "fits", but I assume it's not the final stuff?)
Jessica Koppe wrote on Tuesday, 16. March 2010 at 17:54:
Shelley, thank you!
And it sounds great what you're up to! I'm looking forward to see some pics!
At the moment I could use our Public Producer for, well, the Public Producer thing. There are so many things to do... But we're still on it!
Leo, hi!
No, it's alright, that's the atmosphere I wanted to have in these pictures. And no again, the floor is not final, it's one of my desks... ;)
Simon Clarke wrote on Thursday, 25. March 2010 at 12:05:
Jess - your furniture is BEAUTIFUL. And made of such simple materials. I found my biggest probem when making props was that I was looking for items in the real world that would resemble the model objects. But no! Just make them from cardboard, wire and paint!
As I don't have a lot of modelmaker experience or training, I find this the most difficult thing to take on board. But your work is really inspirational - thanks...
Jessica Koppe wrote on Thursday, 25. March 2010 at 14:07:
Simon, I found it very difficult to find things fitting into my idea of things for my film so I simply have to make them myself...
When I'm going to visit you in June, I'd love to give you a tiny how-to-build-furniture-from-cardboard-and-wire workshop if you like!
Yaz wrote on Thursday, 1. April 2010 at 00:29:
Woowwwww... Amazing. Those chairs and table with flowers.., everything. Great work!!!
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Shelley Noble wrote on Monday, 15. March 2010 at 18:41:
OOOOOooooooo WoW! Jessica! Fantastic looking furniture! PERFECT. Paper-y wood-sey! perfect.
I'm just finishing up my window curtains today. Came out fabulously for me. Better than I thought, though taking longer than I thought.
I was able to make progress on the marching ants as well.
Can't wait for our Public producer site to launch so we can put our tasks in one place! And egg each other on even more effectively!