A mobile originally used above babies cots, is filled with distracting colours and hanging objects.
This was my original idea, to create a mobile which could be hung and images or even sentimental objects could have been hung from. Linking to shadows, having a light in the middle with the objects and images around it to create shadows. This then could have incorporated both the shadow and childhood idea which I had from the beginning.
When putting ideas together and realistic ways of creating this mobile, the easiest way would have been to have a base; this idea was more successful. With estimating the amount of images being used and calculating how many you could fit onto each 'branch' resulted in deducting the number of images used. This was because of the amount I had printed were far too many to realistically fit onto the mobile without it looking to overcrowded. 3 on each branch and 8 branches seem to work; and being even made it easier to construct.
When using both Tianna and Cara I was going to merge the images together and make one big mobile, creating a combination of their past and personalities. But then I felt it would have been more effective separating the two sets of images to help establish who's is who's. Another thought was to have two 'tree's' on one base, but the calculations showed that it would be very wide and high. This idea was dismissed.
The final idea came about by having one 'tree' but with two sections, one higher and one lower. Cara's photos are at the top, and Tianna's photos are below. The significance of having Cara at the top is mainly because she is older and Tianna is younger. Cara is older so would have more memories and better memory of her past, whereas Tianna still has most of her life to come. As you get older, you tend to realise a lot of the truth and why things happen, for Tianna she lives in an adventure of her own.
Once the mobile was made, other little ideas such as the colour of the thread, having their own photo on the end, what order to have the images in, how longer was the thread going to be and so on.
The colour of the thread was determined by both Cara and Tianna. I asked them what there favourite colour(s) were and this was to be used for the mobile. Cara said pastel green or green, and Tianna said blue and black. These were then used to hang up the images on the branches.
Only a select few of their own images were used on the mobile, ones that they particularly liked were also written on with a reason why they liked it. These were then sorted through carefully, spreading each image around to ensure none similar were near. 4 of their images were used and they all were used on the end of the branch; this is to make it more obvious and to stand out from the rest. Considering their images have no border and have writing on the back.
The length of the thread was improvised, although each image on a branch were at different, each branches were similar. Once I had attached all the images to the branches, due to their being quite a few pictures hung, I wanted to make it as less busy as possible; I did this by trimming the ends of the thread once tied onto the branches.
