Main Idea in a bit more depth

• Installation piece about natural disasters and the impact it can have on humanity
• it will include 4 or 5 busts (chest and head)
• they’ll be very basic as they’ll be representing humanity
• on each bust will be a projection of each disaster (so one will have lava and another with have cracking earth, etc) (moving and looping)
• and sound wise I was thinking of having bassy earth noises with the odd crack or boiling sound to represent the sounds of the different disasters (www.vimeo.com/80266870)
• I need to look into different materials for creating the busts, (whether i can buy them pre made or if i have to make them from scratch (either way I don’t mind getting my hands dirty and because of the simplicity of the busts it will reduce the difficulty of the sculpting them))
• the projections will be made in after effects (for obvious reasons of not being able to go too disaster ridden locations (need to choose what disasters to replicate and then contact simon or reference Lynda to figure out how to create the effects)
• inspiration (www.danielwurtzel.com)
• I have a back up plan just incase the sculptures back fire (double exposure)

Logo

Charlie recommended I create a logo for the website to replace the plain looking one that was on the website already. Looking back at the poster colours, I made a simple design that looked good and used a readable font, then coloured it to the palette I had, with colours that fit.

I showed this to Charlie as she is the one that wanted it for the website.

Taking her advice I looked at the website and took a screenshot so I could use the eye drop tool the colours, using that colour scheme.

I also decided to change the font to something a bit easier to read and the colour change also made it clear against the circles.

After approval from Charlie I exported it to a .PNG file and sent it to her, however she had to make the background translucent as I forgot how too.

Maps and Journey Idea Development 1

Charlie approached Kat and I after our lecture with Kathleen asking to combine all three of our ideas.
Katherine's idea being the butterfly effect (Katherine's blog post) and Charlie's being the 5 senses.

Thinking of ways too combine our idea's we came up with my idea, journey through a landscape, as the base of the idea. Then have Kat's and Charlie's incorporated into it along the way:
Examples being the smell of the environment the audience is viewing and then being able to choose the next path/journey/environment to explore.

Maps and Journeys Idea 1 Rough

Nature: A journey of my favourite places or frequently journeyed places/areas.

Sound: Whilst the sound of the environment plays through headphones to immerse the audience into the piece. Getting deep details of the surroundings similar to the clip below (start at 3:18). Note that it isn't a journey you follow by actually looking for the noises, the sounds immerse the audience further into the journey.The sound will be 3D based getting the surround sound gathering as much of the environment as possible. Inspired by chris welsby nature (using nature as a theme).

Visual: Choosing different environments to share with an audience to give everyone a new experience or a nostalgia trip if they have been there before. Possibly just skylines with a hint of the landscape so it's not too personal. The footage of the skyline will move slowly forward as if walking or travelling.  Either using a wide angle lens or multiple shots to create a wide shot of each environment. Repeating the 2 minute edits onto the walls of a room, which a person stands in the center of the room watching the journey. Visually it will be similar to Pipilotti Rists "sip my ocean" and Chris Welsby 'skylight'.

Audience: For people to relate too and to put people into my shoes or someone else's shoes to experience something different.
My first idea is related to nature, specially a journey through different environments.

Sound Idea!

Image: Tracey Emin's, My bed

Her personal life, her dirty bed

Sound: My bedroom

My life, noises I'm used too

E.g. listening to music, playing games, on my laptop, etc.

She's showing her personal life that you don't see, in an image. I'm sharing my personal life with sound.

Experimental Sound!

For my experimental sound project I have been given an image, which I had no input in choosing, in which I have to sound to. 

Now that sound can be in the form of a journey, a passage of time, a narrative theme or the place. 

I have been given Tracey Emins, My Bed (1998) as shown below.

There has been a lot of thinking around this and at how/what I'm do. 

Maybe I could combine them all together. Somehow mange to tell a story or the life of someone as I describe the place they are located in, the bed. 

Of course these are just some rough ideas which I hope I can piece together well. 

Pre-pitch development 2!

I developed my idea in my pre-pitch and we developed and pretty much changed the idea completely. 

We are taking home footage and photos of my family. The idea is to search through them and find interesting, possibly funny, warming footage of my family. Clipping them together to make it ideal length for the task.

 Then my plan is too go and gather my family members in a room and get them to tell me about the specific memories I have picked without letting them see or be reminded. Of course a microphone is needed for recording them and a lot of sound editing to get rid of all the thinking time.

There maybe some technical issues with the amount of people in one room and getting VHS tape footage into a digital, editable format.

The message behind this one is that video footage, over time, will become distorted a lot like our memories. With family input the memories can be rebuilt from scratch, even if it is a bit choppy.

Pre-pitch Development!

Development of my previous idea is to keep the memory abstract and hard to make out. Also instead of playing around with hard to reconstruct footage just keep it simple, like home footage that one person might remember. 

Still debating on whether to use 2 screens to show the correct footage and then the distorted version next to it or keep it all on one screen somehow. 

The message now is that over time memories will become distorted, the brains quality in remembering will decrease. Also the importances of living in the moment and record happy times in others ways (e.g. photos)then trying to remember them. 

First Pre-pitch!

Dream Recording

My idea is to take this fact based technology and apply it into my idea to recreate the look of a memory.

The things I'll be recreating is the truth behind Historical events, such as the death of JFK, 9/11, etc.
The list of conspiracies behind those events are large and the fact that media can be very easy manipulated. So I would show the image of the historical event next to footage the 'Memory' of what 'Actually' happened.


Recreating the 'memories' look in after effects.

More research into this technology.

Time Ideas No.1 Development!

In addition to my first time idea, I could fade out the busy rush to a quieter time of the night. This shows how once everyone has left work and gone home to sleep it's a different world outside. This happens every night at the same time! Just empty because of the hours people need to be up the next day. CLOCKWORK!

Personal Experience: Im used to walking home and walking along side the road at around 6 in the evening, it'd quite blinding due too all the cars coming my way, however! The other day I went home at a later time, being 12am, and the difference in cars on the road was unbelievable for just how busy it normally is. I could, and did, walk down the middle of the road with only 1 or 2 cars coming along every 5 mins. And just how quiet it was, was just lovely! 

That's my new thought on this idea. 

Time Ideas No.1!

Transport!

Transport runs on time itself. If you mention travelling, the conversation quickly changes to "what time are you leaving? what are the times?" 

Where I am located at the moment, I am very close to the train and bus station as well as a busy road so I can see the chaos of rush hour as cars beep their way home with everyone else. And the herd of people in suits flooding off the buses and trains.

One screen will be a train or multiple trains leaving and arriving at the station, one with a traffic jam or rush hour and the other will be buses coming and going.

The message is that everyone today is too busy and is impatient. A lot of travel is late which everyone complains about because of people needing to be on time or doing things.

The idea of this is too represent the busyness in our lives today. Nothing runs slowly or smoothly anymore. Also that everyone's life has the same routine. All day, all month, all year. But we don't really see it ourselves as we are normally part of the crowd. I want to show people there lives from and outsiders perspective.