Research & Work Based Practice - End of Year Show

I have thought long and hard about my end of year show and looked at different options of how to display my work.

These were my initial options...

1. Have my video added to a show reel along with the other TV and Film students work
2. Have it shown on a tv or monitor
3. Come up with something different

It was then decided by the tutors that it would go on the show reel with the other students work however I was not happy about that. I felt that my film would get lost with theirs and I wanted my work to be shown with the rest of my groups and not separately. There was also the issue of this being my first proper film, what if it wasn't at the same standards as the TV and Film students work. It would make me feel uncomfortable on the night and for the entire exhibition. 

So I decided I would have to improvise and come up with something different and more me. I remembered seeing a few old tvs in different exhibitions I have been to and how good they looked showing back and white films. So I thought how can I make mine stand out and be different...

I thought about it for a couple of days and in the middle of the night was woken up with an idea. I would make an old style tv out of a small 19inch tv and a cardboard box. I haven't seen that at any of the exhibitions and it would be fun to make. I started to draw my design and came up with this...

I already have the tv, the headphones, the box and the table. So I will have a look at where to get the other items from and how much they are going to cost. I will also need a couple of stools for people to sit on while they watch and possibly a little separate table to hold my business cards and information. 

Update...

I have had a look around and managed to order an old 1960's looking aerial from eBay for £2 which will arrive tomorrow. I have also found some sticky back plastic to cover the box with so it looks like a wooden tv instead of a plain brown box. 

I will be making this at the weekend ready for setting up the show in Monday. So unfortunately I won't be able to add any images of this before my hand in date however I will add an extra post after the show with some images of it and of the evening/exhibition.

I have decided this would be the best way to present my work as the genre of my video isn't one that would look right being projected onto the wall with music in the room which might echo. It is an intimate video which needs to draw the audience in and let them have an open mind. I thought a smaller scene with headphones would do just that. It would make it intimate as people would have to sit down and quite close to the set up. I have gone for an old tv look as it will help people to connect with it and make them realise that its not a piece about today, its about the past and something that in a different way did happen.