Beauty in the Making Exhibition

So yesterday I went to the Beauty in the Making Exhibition which was run in association with GF Smith Papers.

The exhibition was to showcase the methods behind paper production and the processes it goes through in order to become the paper we buy in the shops.

There were demonstrations of paper making and I even had a go at letterpress and envelope folding. There was also some amazing samples of some original hand drawn type from the 1930's. It was great to see the tipex marks on the paper - it made it so much more real.

After the exhibition I managed to go a couple of industry talks. the first one was from the director of Future Shorts the company that contains The Other Cinema, Future Cinema and The Secret Cinema. It was a really insightful talk all about the relationship between film and the audience and the future of short films and cinema.

Here are some pictures from the exhibition

A Sheet of Paper

Our first day group project was called 'A Piece of Paper'. The brief - to get as many people to interact with a sheet of about A1 paper in about 3 hours.

Our group decided to cut the paper into a long chain and trap as many people as we could.

Initially we asked people to step inside the chain but most people were reluctant to do so which resulted in trapping large groups in the college canteen while eating their lunch and tourist groups outside the Tate Britain.

In total we trapped roughly 65 people.

I did enjoy this project... it was interesting to see how something we class so as insignificant as a piece of paper could attract so much attention and would make people willing to be involved.

It was also interesting bringing groups of people who didn't know each other at all together, forcing them to stand in a confined space. It was far easier to get people to join in if they all knew one another, as shown in the bottom two photos.