Starting point again!

Again....back to the brief.  I looked at Birmingham as a whole - and the idea of creating a rolling landscape which could have ballerina/musician shadow puppets in a similar style to the video created by Stephen Mushin for Lior - I'll Forget You (feat. Sia)

I cut out the Birmingham landscape to create a basic shadow puppet to see how effective this would look and wether the idea might develop...

Trial 1
Landscape of Birmingham (cut from width of A2 paper)

Trial 1
Birmingham landscape projected as shadow puppet
- the size of the shadow is too large & the further away the light from the screen, the bigger the shadow is projected.

Trial 2
As trial 1 was too large - I cut out the landscape on a much smaller scale
- cut out of A4 paper 

Trial 2
Projected as a shadow puppet - results are much more effective when the puppet is smaller

Mock-up frame & screen for testing!

After a tutorial with Jo, I had some very positive feedback from these scenery shadow puppets & the idea that I could break these down into individual components and create a moving interactive landscape...finally getting somewhere?!