Visual Narratives

Despite having a frustrating first day of this project, when I discussed ideas for the screenprint with my group we came up with a lot of ideas that I was much happier about.

Since it was so rainy on Monday, we decided we wanted the rain to be a key part of the screenprint. To show this, I went outside and stepped in some mud and then stepped on some paper to make a mark of the bottom of my shoe.


I was happy with the result of this because we ended up with an unexpected texture that we wouldn't have been able to create otherwise. We were originally going to try and photocopy this texture onto the acetate but decided to make it simpler by tracing the marks with the chinograph pencil instead. The result was the same shape but with a different texture.

The main idea behind our screenprint was to make the first layer represent the ground that we were walking on, and then the second layer was going to be a sound map of everything we heard while we were walking around Leeds. For the rest of the footprint layer, we incorporated a receipt, some leaves and some marks to indicate puddles.





For the next layer, we used ink and chinograph pencil to create some marks to represent the sounds we heard. We decided to position these sounds mostly over the footprints to show that the sounds we heard where we walked.