During this session, we were split up into groups and attempted to make a magic lantern. My group was Iwan, Andrew and Rookshanara. We started by discussing how we would make it and what we needed to have in order to make it. As you can see from my previous post, we managed to come up with a plan of action, and set about making our lantern. My role was to take notes and photographs of the group as we made the lantern, however I was also inputing a lot of ideas. Andrew was drawing our slides, and Iwan was making the box, and the lens. We started off by drawing our slides on a piece of card paper, but soon realised that the light was never going to travel through the lens and through the card and therefore, would not be able to project our imagine onto a screen. We needed something transparent such as tracing paper, or better still, overhead projector paper. We also needed the light to be as bright as possible in order to stand a chance of the images being projected onto a screen. We cut a hole into the box and shone a lamp directly through the hole, which would travel through the lens, and onto the projector paper.
Despite the box being made to our desired specifications, the projection was still a bit faint. In order to combat this, I placed a magnifying glass in front of the lens so that the images would be more visible. This made a slight difference, but overall, the image still was not projected the way we intended.
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