Assignment Week #12 pt.1

I teamed up with Danielle to complete this project inspired by the time machine Tardis from British TV show Doctor Who. 

We first started to make the circuit with the simplest circuit template on a piece of green paper.  The process was fairly easy and we only had a little problem connecting the LED light at the beginning as we recomposed the foil tape too many times.  Next, we made our Tardis drawing and stars with oil pastel referencing from a couple pictures we found online. The background was then painted with gouache paint. To my surprise, these two mediums worked well together as oil pastel is water-resistant which helped to bring out the focus on Tardis. Therefore, the contrast of texture between these two different mediums created a popping out effect in the painting. As the finished painting started to dry up, we placed the painting on top of the circuit and cut out a hole on the top of Tardis where LED light would show through.  We then cut off the corner of the painting so the corner of the green paper with circuit showed. We glued down the battery on the green paper where the positive end of the conductor tape connected, then we folded up the corner with glued battery to connect the positive end and negative end of circuit. A circle was marked and cut out on our painting where battery would touch the negative end of the conductor tape. In the end we filmed it when the circuit connected and Danielle edited the video with a Tardis noise.