Fictional Island Final Part

After some ideal of making / creating process from last material workshop, it’s time to put in the idea to realization.

But somehow our team has misunderstanding with the brief given, where we didn’t back up our “ideal island” with research to supporting the facts. Then we given one hour for make some findings.

Then with brain storm within our group on the execution, and despite all the constant changing of plans and indecisiveness + non-stop idea coming in from teammates how it should be presented in best way either dialog stage, purely acting from four of us…

And we ended it last 20minute discussion before times up, we decided to turn into one narrative speaker which hold by Julia (Fashion), two as actress Kim & Hend (P+S) and one engage with the audience Laura (Fashion).

The challenge:

• It’s was making a pitch, letting people know our island in very best manner, where have the audience be engage by putting their own personal belongings
•  Having 2 actress with no dialog and music background (which commented quite cliché) and bird squeaking sound to have more real as new born animal as possible.
• By making some fur costume, bird mask, bird nest and other little props for the set.

    The verdict:

•     It’s is a success outcome with given the short time and last minute changes to go with this direction.
•     Our judges (Colin and Nancy) like the scene engagement, seriousness and execution done with well deliver message of our Fictional Island.
•        We won as 3^rd by competing with 6 teams.

   Some of the picture taken, for other groups presentation.

 

The virtual city - Reference from SIM city

 

The pollution free island 

 

The group who won 1st prize

 

The future island, with loads of plastic

    Group A -
Kim (P+S)
Hend (P+S)
Julia (Fashion)
Laura (Fashion)

Material Workshop

We had material workshop where we explore the possibilities of material itself with different working process. With a list of process to be follow as below:

Drilling                       Cutting                    Molding


Weaving                     Binding                   Texturizing


Casting                       Printing                  Bonding


Welding                      Gliding                    Coating


Fastening                    Forming                  Knotting


Polishing                     Etching                   Melting

To have better understanding with the process, I pair them up with possible industry scale, images and video to have better idea what these process means, as some of them have similar process but yet very different and most of all the final product itself normally involve 2 or more process to created.

E.g. : Molding need melting the product itself then pour into a molding

Drilling – Construction industry

Cutting – Stone & Marble Industry

Molding – Injection molding / Plastic Industry

Weaving- Fabric Industry "Provides the means to interlace warp and filling yarns according a weave pattern to form a fabric structure. The yarns system in the fabric lengthwise direction is referred to as the warp. It is supplied to the weaving machine on a loom beam. Warp yarns are often called ends."

Binding – Printing Industry "The act of fastening, securing, uniting"

Texturizing-
Construction Industry "Construction applications -wall covering fabrics,curtains, veils, wall hangings, vertical blinds, roofing"

Industrial Industry "Industrial applications -thermal insulation,gas filtration,anti corrosion reinforcement"

Transportation Industry "Transportation application - Clutch disc, brake linings"
Casting- Metal Industry, Plastic Industry

Printing – Publication industry

Bonding- Automotive industry (car paint)

Welding - Automotive industry

Gliding - Construction for Doors & Windows "To move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance"

Coating – Automobile Industry, Industrial Industry
PVC coated yarns for sun and insect screening
PTFE coated fabrics for high-end printed wiring boards (low dielectric constant/low losses), architectural and roofing membranes
Specific properties of PTFE fabrics – such as non-stick and smooth surface, resistance to chemicals, compliance with food regulation, temperature resistance and high tensile strength – benefit a wide range of applications, including food processing, conveyor belts, release sheets, thermal insulation, sealing and more


Fastening- Construction Industry,Engineering Industry, Fashion Industry

Forming - Metal Industry, Construction Industry (concrete forming)

Knotting- Fashion Industry

Polishing - Metal industry, Stone industry

Etching - Printing Industry "The act or process of making designs or pictures on a metal plate, glass, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_etching"


This is a video of glass bottle etching and marketing strategy for it http://vimeo.com/18966608


Melting -Glass industry, Metal industry

Bibliography:
http://www.vetrotextextiles.com/Applications
http://www.ipsfinishing.com/Services.aspx
http://www.kme.com/en/melting_and_casting_industry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_etching
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3P1K0IhhaU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDc5ZWcHwiI&feature=related
http://vimeo.com/18966608

We also run some experiment to understand how these materials react, below are some of the test experiment….

Equipment needed:

 

Experiment 1:

Milk + Food coloring + liquid detergent

Experiment 2:

Baking soda + coloring + vinegar

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As for the our own workshop we helped Ms. Philippa to document her process of experiment by trying these process on different kind of material as exploration.


Below are some of the images of type of process + material:

cutting + weaving on jersey

coating on aluminium



binding on leather



molding with aluminum foil

 

texturizing on leather

Group project experiment on jersey and aluminum material