After completing the styling workshop I came to the conclusion that my photoshoot would probably work a lot better if the receipts were joined together to form a large roughly 1 metre by 1 metre piece of material. I would then be able to drape it more easily over my model and/or pin it to fin the model it a more interesting way. I would experiment with this before hand on a mannequin.
I thought about different ways that I could join up my receipts. I experimented with a few of these ideas to see what would work most effectively. First I tried a more fashion textiles approach by hand sewing the receipts together. For the experimentation I chose to do hand sewing as it more available to me at the time, but had this been the best option I probably would have used a sewing machine. I did however chose against this option as it took a lot of time, and had I of used a sewing machine I would have mostly found it quite fiddly trying to line up each individual receipt. For another experiment I tried simple glue stick. This was quite quick and actually worked surprisingly well. It dries quick and seeing as it was paper and not fabric it held well. I thought about using other glue types such as hot glue and PVA, however this would just cause unnecessary mess and wouldn't be as quick drying, especially the PVA glue.
It took me a couple of hours to attach as many receipts as it would to join the receipts to produce a larger piece of paper just over a metre squared in size. I thought this was an appropriate size as it would cover the majority of the body of my model. I made sure that I left a good amount of single receipts spare incase I did want to try a few shots using these in my shoot.
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