Stencil Project

I have been blogging forever about my addiction to and love for street art.

So when Mrs. Willoughby assigned our Lit class with a small senior presentation that represents in some way who I am or what I enjoy doing I instantly thought:
"Time lapse stencil"

So, here it is



I will briefly explain what I did.

Ok so I took an idea that I had for a stencil before. I took a picture offline of a child soldier who I believe is Viet or Cambodian. Either way it makes a good image and a good statement.

I took it into Gimp2.0 and erased the excess off the image. Then using the threshold and tweaking it a bit I made the stencil-like image.

Printed it.

Cut it.
The cut was difficult, this picture has a lot of hanging white which in stencil terms means a lot of annoying figuring out how to cut it. So that was difficult but I think it came out quite nicely.
To get that shot of me actually cutting the stencil I used the clamp with the camera (featured at the end of the film) and pointed it down towards myself. The cutting actually took around 45 minutes, but with the help of iMovie I made it only a little above 2 minutes. So me cutting it is actually at 40x speed.

One little funny thing to mention is if you notice while I am cutting the head of the boy, the blade falls out and I have to put it back in. It only lasts a few seconds on the video but you can see if you watch closely.

I then sprayed the stencil. Wanted to get video of that but just didnt have time.

Actually the video editing was very fun and difficult as well. Gave some examples of stencil art or street art for reference. Those with a keen eye may catch that I took the picture of the boy with the green shirt stencil in Venice. Added some chill music (Flying Lotus and Teebs). Added titles.

Voila.

I gave the stencil to Willoughby, I think she liked it.