Sculpture Making Idea

My one worry with this project and from my first idea of filming myself taking photographs was that I have never done any filmmaking before.  I don't really know if I am going to be able to create a short film myself and am unsure if it would work out. Because of this, I have thought of some other ideas I could do that don't include filmmaking.

I still want to want to include the original idea of using the body, and maybe nude too. So I came up with an idea of making a Sculpture.  I have worked with clay before and think that it could be possible to create a sculpture of a female body and then think about shooting the model in a photo-shoot as if it was a real model so get a creative image of a sculpture against a real background.  I first had the thought of sculpture making when we went to a trip to the Brighton Photo Biennial and I saw Gavin Bambrick's work Exile, of sculptures he had made to show emotions;

Gavin Bambrick 'Exile'

He made the sculptures himself and they are not the best but are a perfect way to show emotion through body shape. The also are the start of my idea of photographing the sculpture afterwards because of the way he has photographed them. The lighting of his models (figurines) looks very dramatic and can resemble nude photography which is my original idea. From this I looked at sculpture making videos.

This film above shows a film of a female body being sculpted.  One idea is to create the sculpture and then shoot on a realistic background i.e. the beach, but another idea is to either do a stop motion or short film or me making the sculpture.

If I create a short film of the camera still and facing the sculpture and my hands, I could include sound of a piece of elegant music or someone talking about the body shapes and how exploring the shapes of the body felt through sculpture making.

I found this video of a wooden figurine in my research and this has given me the idea of sculpture too. But in this short video clip it shows the wooden figurine in dance positions.  Dance is something that can play a huge role within this idea and will come further in my research.  The wooden figurine can show different positions and will be handy to use if a sculpture will be made. I will think about this idea still but maybe consider thinking about film making again.