Xerox

I took an interesting, unorthodox approach to my Xerox project. Instead of using photocopies of my hands to explain a story/concept through pictures, I decided to utilize my film major and make a video. Let’s begin with the process.

I had great difficulty accessing a printer that worked. It took three stops to finally find one that did, hopping around from the art center to the Cass lab to the Library. Once I was finally able to get photocopies of my hand, I started to cut. After cutting out one detailed hand I realized that without the black background my natural hand doesn’t pop like it should. Rather it just looks like a piece of white paper. I made the executive decision to leave the black background behind my hands, a different approach that you can see in my video.

For the video I used stop motion, taking individual frames to conduct a story. I made the story based on my most common study habit. The story starts with hands working on a document which can be seen on the computer. Once writers block is struck, a guitar is seen in sight. The hands crawl towards the guitar and begin to play, concluding the story.

I actually had a great deal of fun with this project, as it was probably one of my favorites. It was also my first time ever working with stop motion, and I have to say I don’t think I did horrible but there were a few things I could have done better, such as keeping the lighting consistent.

https://vimeo.com/335443615