Getting experimental...

After getting hold of some photo reel, its time to think about how exactly are the letters going to form on the paper?

I started experimenting with different ways the reel could be cut up in ways and glued to the page. I wanted to keep that reel border, as that just adds to the whole look.

First it was just simply cutting the reel into strips and positioning them together to make the letter, but that isn't so creative so then I tried adding a fold to the reel with the extra reel to improve the letter, and I was rather please with this way of creating the letters.

But there was no interesting typeface coming out that way, we still wanted to recreate the letters inspired from the electric cinema type, so I resulted to making the reel into a stencil. The font cut out is based from the electric cinema. From the three experiments, we decided the stenciled letter was the closest to what we wanted the overall letters to look like, now its just the matter how deciding how we are to use the stencil, or further experimentation is needed?!

So for our final letters, we are going to be using photo reel, and as the whole theme behind it is Birmingham's history with the electric cinema, we thought about how we can make the final model interesting by adding elements to or around the letters that showcase that theme too. Ideas such as, making an actual mini cinema screen to display the letters, a stage and appropriate lighting, to give the whole model an old cinema feel to it. Just as a thought, if there is going to be a back drop, maybe it could be like a crackly screen u saw in the old black and white movies, to make it look all dated.