The Body Adorned, Striptease pixilation.

Spring 2012 we did a project at uni called "The Body Adorned", in which we had lectures about decorating the body, using clothes etc. to make it alluring and beautiful. These lectures encompassed everything from tattoos and piercings to the masquerade in the 18th century and fashions through time where clothes were used to draw attention to a certain part of the body, as well as clothes and identity.

We then had to do a self-directed project,  exploring a topic inspired by these lectures and producing something to show for it. I could be anything from a hat to a costume or a sculpture.

I chose to look at the allure of the suggestive, and suggestively clothed body. How you can sell the idea of sex yet remain to some degree clothed. How the act of undressing is more titillating than a completely nude body. My end result was to be a pixilation film.

I started by researching the origins of the striptease, and female sexuality. I then moved on to storyboarding and designing, and finding a place to shoot it, as well as having to dress the set and source costumes.

When it came to the actual shooting of the film, I ended up having to model it myself, as english modesty made it difficult to find someone willing to do it, even at an artschool. I got a friend to be behind the camera, with me both directing and modelling. 

After having taken all the pictures, I had to edit. We took about 3000 pictures during shooting, all of which had to be individually edited, and quite a few had to be deleted. Let me tell you, sneezing when you're in a pixilation is not a good idea. I think about 600 got discarded. I then had to make it into a film, and each frame had to be set at a certain speed.
As for music, I used the Pink Panther theme song. 

Research and storyboard snaps - 

Snaps from the finished film -