Horsehead almost complete

After a week of faffing and painting, repainting cursing and general procastinating the horse head is now painted in its final colour of choice..... black with glitter.... and I think it looks pretty fab, I need to mount it and bring together the work I have done and decide on how its going to come together for assesment and how to present the videos on youtube, I have done a few and will have to decide which ones work best for me and how to edit them.

Looking back over this term I have learnt alot more than I thought I have done all my own filming and editing on a software suite I havent used before and  the music software is new to me too, I dont make music but I like to play with sounds.
I have made a fab horse head and am going to make the finishing touches to the carousel, even though it was just used for filming it would be nice to give it roof of sorts. This side of the project has worked well and I hope its assessed well, I am still trying to be more experimental but it feels uncomfortable and I like to be in a comfort zone, but the playing with ideas is fun its just the putting them together that the hard bit.

Horsehead....

The original idea, a carousel horse head mounted like a deer after the hunt for example.

Chicken wire and bubble wrap... fab combination for a starting point.

and silver foil.......

taking shape nicely, and have done a test with some gold paint for a touch of colour.



Font fun

It always happens, you start messing and make something really nice by accident.

Horses.

Another version.

more lights, horses and pretty things.

not happy with this version, its really not working for me. but hey its moving on........

One of the edits.

pretty lights

Part of making these films has been about how I am effected by lights and sounds, I feel quite travel sick after the abuse of an arcade, the flashing lights and disorientating sounds make me giddy and nauseous, I hope to recreate this in my filming.

Why do I feel like this?

I have suffered from travel sickness in different guises for years:

But why me? after having a quick browse online it is the inner ear that seems to be the cause, I had lots of ear infections when I was a child, I also found this was caused by going to bed with damp hair ! it is a warm wet enviroment and a breeding ground for germs. So my inner ear could of been damaged. I dont remember being sick when I was little but we did travel alot at nights, on long journeys to Cornwall for example, and was always playing up in the back of the car with my brother and sister so not really paying attention to the world around.
Nowadays the daftest of childrens rides can bring on a feeling of dizziness and nausea, aswell as mirrorballs.... everytime my partner and I went to Home Bargains, it was " Babe can we have a Mirror Ball ?" After a few weeks he gave in and we set it up in the flat; the sparkles and shine all around the room where wonderful as I sat on the sofa, until I started to feel dizzy, and my eyes started to roll, the mirror ball hasnt been on much since then..... so I got a disco ball !

What is motion sickness?(according to the net)

Motion sickness is a very common disturbance of the inner ear that is caused by repeated motion such as from the swell of the sea, the movement of a car, the motion of a plane in turbulent air, etc. In the inner ear (which is also called the labyrinth), motion sickness affects the sense of balance and equilibrium and, hence, the sense of spatial orientation.