Assignment 3 : Messing with clay

I think today was the most amusing day of my life. Even if it is for the sake of this NM module...

I bought 7 tubes of blue plasticine and a styrofoam ball and started moulding my blue CNM mascot early in the morning. The night before I was making the graduation cap along with the scroll, after a long day of scientific observations done for anothercross faculty project.

I was sitting in a discreet corner of the school, minding my own business with the blue doll, hoping that none of my friends would see me and think that I have finally lost my mind doing projects in school. The main challenge creating the doll is to make sure that it actually stands and will not topple when I get to Dr Millie's office. I have made an appointment the day I decided to use the 'clay doll' idea because I believe Dr Millie is one of the key 'front person' of the department and it would be fantastic to have her in my Ken Burns video.

Equiped with my blue clay doll and my DSLR, I headed for Dr Millie's office in time for our appointment before her meeting. I wasn't in the best shape to do the project because I was ill and made a few mistakes here and there before I got the right angle. Thanks to Dr Millie who was really patient with me and even told me to take care after the shoot was done.



Then I headed to the CNM conference room, the set for the rest of my shoot. Because it was the mid semester break, a lot of the academic staff were not in. I went to all the office I could and managed to find some of the professors in. Rodney, one of the research fellows offered to help too. I also managed to get Alex and Dr Chung Peichi to help me 'mould' my doll.

Basically, instead of getting them to 'mould' my doll' I did a reverse effect to make things easier. Thus, they will not mould the doll from a ball into a doll, but from a doll into a ball. In other words, they are destroying my clay doll to what it was originally.

The final effect would only be obvious when the final product is done. Meanwhile, here's how some of the photographs ( frame of the video ) will look like.





Interesting, isn't it?

Please look forward to the final video.