After the completion of the Lidice
Shall Die animation, there was an exhibition and show of the product. To help
the public gain more of an insight to the storey and possibly become apart of the project and spread the word.
On the 2nd of March I helped to set
up the space in the Hanley Potteries Museum. We started the day by adding two
pear seeds to each individual envelope, as seen below. And then attaching the
packets to the branches surrounding the displace area, for the public to pick
up easily. The seeds represent the only thing to survive the Lidice
attack, a pear tree. And by having two seeds, these represent the promise, to
re-tell the storey to two people. So in a couple years Stoke-on-Trent will
have plenty of pears :)
The next thing on my agenda to do was to create a path way made
from foot prints. In the style of military boots, Dan another student from
Staffordshire University drew around his own foot as a template on some transferrable
white vinyl. Then I added a simple tread design onto the foot sketch, also
including an arrow to indicate the direction. Once the prints where all cut
out, I began to stick the feet down starting from entrance of the Museum to the
showing area. Too hopefully gather interest and get more of the public to go to
the area. When apply the feet I
literally began jumping for one foot to another to get the correct distance between feet. This
was rather amusing to passing visitors, but in the end the path way worked
particularly well in getting people to the show area.
The final completed area; the screen consisting of shower
curtains simple but effective, benches for the public, carpet mats for children
that wanted to sit on the floor, the area was surrounded by the branches
covered in the pear seed packets, and even some of the silhouettes that are feature
in the animation.
Finally I had chance to watch the
entire animation, I was blown away it looked incredible! I urge you to watch
the animation that is on my previous post. I even got to see my own name on the
credits, as shown below. This being my largest collaborative film Ive been apart of outside of the
university, I was rather excited so thought id share this image.
Here is a documentary piece of the
showing of the film, created by Chris Stone.
Featuring Sarah Nahin and Nicola
Winstanley the creative directors of the entire production.
