The longest day.

The BLUE group ' plan changed while the conditions changed. Plan A: use the tiny dark room as a space which full of mysterious atmosphere . It can help our project to present the atmosphere of urban space. 

We tested for three times to check how the shape of shadow looks like, it perfectly works, and the effect which we all satisfied.

PLAN B: when the condition changes, we had to move to the front place of the gallery. We quickly come up with the ideas. We can do some city shapes or subject shape as a mask on the top of the video.

Plan C: finally, we decide to use the two corners, but we just have one corner, another one is empty. We decide to build a wood to cover it. But the materials were hard to get and cut. With EARN's help, we finally find the wood pieces. And it was really heavy. Ok. 

and we ask the fashion design student for helping us to mix the two pieces of cloth. They are really professional. Thanks very much.

after cover the coner, we discuss the cloth problem with tutor.

we figured it out!

Why I called today is " the longest day", because we have done a perfect preparation for the short new media exhibition.

PS. I decided make an documentary . because I got a lot of intense and really good shots today.

                                BY Hu Yuanji

Tomorrow night is the night!

So today was our last day before exhibition. We decided to meet again and try and set things up as much as possible. Our biggest task was to make a 'ceiling' with black material; which is hopefully going to produce more shadows so we can get a better projections.

This took up most of our time as we had to measure, then cut and then find somebody to help us sew it together. However, this task is now complete so tomorrow, I feel will go smoother as we just need to put the ceiling then the projections.

Just want to say, it's been a few good weeks, we have all worked hard and I'm sure we will sure that in our projections. Tomorrow will go smoothly and the exhibition will go great! Good luck guys :)

Leanne

Final CAD Design

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Final CAD Design

Hey I have designed a final out look of what our exhibition may look like towards the end and it seems to have turned out really good! :)

I have also included a few things of what we may need and have to do for tomorrow and Tuesday which I have sent to Ian so that he can check it for us also.
we will need to be doing the measurements tomorrow just to make sure and double check everything in the morning then we could get the board cut and put it into the corner like we have discussed last week hopefully if we can get the material tomorrow to then we could get that sorter out also.

If anything else is missing we can discuss it tomorrow lets hope it all goes well!

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Music/Sound

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We decided that we may use music or sound in relation to our project since we wanted to create an environmental feel to it we wanted to show the transition of the video from being a normal environment from a video of how it can transform into something completely different using the animation and altered images to relate more to the viewer and what the viewer themselves may think of the images, video, animation and sound all together as one. Since our project is in relation to urban landscapes it was very obvious that we wanted to include an urban sound within our exhibition such as the city workers and cars wizzing and beeping through traffic while many people talking along the city roads.

From this I did some research and found various sounds related to urban landscapes and cut area's within the sounds which I believed to be of most use I ended up with 3 different Sounds which could be used you can hear them in each video below.

I will be asking my group which they believe to be the best and we will go with the majority decision.

Sound 1

Sound 2

Sound 3

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Silhouettes - Filling the space continued - Images

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After Leannes find of some great images I decided to look online for other various Silhouette shapes and outlines which we could use to fill the space.

Below are various Images which I found in relation to this to gather ideas so that we can choose which would work best for our exhibition space.

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Filling the Space

As we have changed locations, we were talking about drawing some shapes in the white space between the two projections. I found these images online which I thought were pretty cool. If Hu could draw something like this, I think it will look really great, especially something like a skyline of an urban landscape with a bird flying across it. Moreover, I think it will link the two projections together even better.

Bird picture taken from: http://www.clker.com

Skyline picture taken from: http://www.gdrc.org/uem/numbers.html

Change of plan

After weeks of preparations, we had a major set back; we couldn't use the little darkroom to show our projection. The reason was that as there were only 3 groups doing this exhibition, so we needed to fill the exhibition space as best as we could. At first, I was pretty annoyed as we spent all our time in the darkroom seeing what would be the best for our projections. However, now thinking about it, I think it could work to our advantage.

Our new space is now at the front of the art gallery, at the first we wasn't happy as it looked too bright; however, Ian showed us some previous work and the projections seemed to work really well. But another thing that put us off was the fact we wanted two 90 degree angled corners which this space did not have! We tried to fight for the darkroom but we lost so after a lot of discussing and working out; we decided on putting up an extra piece of board so we could get matching corners. There not 90 degree corners but with this way, we actually make the projection bend in 3 places which could look better than 2. We were still worried about the light but hopefully we are planning to put a piece of black material across the top to make it darker.

I know this isn't what we wanted or planned, but I think we came together as a group and did our best to work things out, with the problems that occurred. Anything, think of it like this….we'll be the first and last projection that people see :)

Leanne Tasker

Bringing it all together

After looking at the animation and photos made by the boys, I was really inspired to add something in film format. As we want two projection, we decided to have the animation/photographs on one side and a video on the other.

I made a short video of an urban landscape panning across the skyline, however, when I saw the other projection, I felt they didn't really fit together. Even though we want to show one side of urban landscape (animation) as very abstract and the other projection as more calmer, I felt the were too different. So I done some research and came across this really cool video. This video came from a man called called Patrick Murphy who made installation pieces using the theme of pigeons.

Use link to see video:
Liverpool Biennial: Bird's-eye view of pigeon artwork by Patrick Murphy - Local News - News - Videos & Pics

Link for more information about Murphy and his pigeon installations:
http://www.artinliverpool.com/?p=32584

I feel that pigeons are iconic to an urban landscape and this video can be seen as quite abstract and quirky; with the use of bright colours and the fact the pigeons are not real. This gave me idea for my video and I feel it will compliment the other projection in the theme of abstract.

I went to local town and videoed some pigeons, I was quite lucky when filming as one pigeon flew in which I felt made the video stronger.  So as my idea I want to project this video on a pile of rubbish (maybe newspaper). I feel this could work as we associate pigeons being dirty and always arounds bins and rubbish. Moreover, the video will still be calmer than the animation but they will link with abstract styling; so we will have two different types of emotion showing in the projections.

Leanne Tasker

Exhibition theory guide

I found something useful in last week's speech. It may be relevant to the reflection of the audience. the exbition maybe a big product, the audience is a user,like product design.As the speech says, the user experience is very important in the 21th centery. because the user create the content of media culture, they have been the main role of art show. We are producer ,the audience require our ability and direction. it is a "custerm age". and the exbition contains: 1. phsycal factor 2.computer factor 3.social factor.4.artist factor. The third factor , social factor is more interesting for me,because it requires designer control the live stage, and make sure the audience get the point of the exbition.

and I was attracted by the "simile face" very much. it presents the expressions as signs to delivery the message of the people. it is simple , but still strongly works on humen's mood and emotion.The design shows the good control of "social factor".
  
all these factor and notice board is useful . The theroies make me to think how to present idea in live exbition, and as an very important guide.



                            Hu Yuanji

Projection - Ideas & Testing

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We decided to meet as a group and to test some of our idea's in relation to urban landscape we stuck with this theme since we wanted to find out how it could turn out and since the idea's we had were very abstract which was what we directed towards from the start of this project.

We first tested some of the images which I created for the urban landscape I tried making these slightly abstract to relate with the whole theme of being in a particular place mentally which we then tried to relate to the animation Hu created.

Once the tests were done we decided to use different materials such as reflective surfaces and card to create a unique effect rather than the image just being projected onto one surface. When we did this it created an amazing look to the images being projected onto the card since the distance of the cards varied from the wall to the projector the light was much sharper and stronger. From using this idea and experimenting with it placing the card in front of the projector created dark area's on the wall of where the card was placed which we did not like to much. I came up with the idea of cutting out silhouette shapes of people and placing these in front of the projector instead of just standard card and discussed this with Hu which he thought was great. Hu drew and cut the shape we then tested it and we agreed that it created a much more pleasing result due to the silhouette relating to a person being within the urban landscape.

Below are a series of images and a video to what we have been testing.

First test of one of my images projected onto the wall in a dark space

Testing the colour image projected onto the wall

We first tested being in front of the projector before the silhouette cut outs

Hu in front of projector whilst we document the testing process

Testing reflective surface to expand the projection and to see what was created by it

Reflective surface in front of projector

Myself holding card in front of the projector to see the difference of the image being projected

We found this image online and sketched around it whilst it was projected onto card

Sketching out the silhouette

Cutting out the silhouette sketch

Testing silhouette cut out whilst projection is being projected

Testing silhouette on different images

Testing silhouette cut out on Hu's animation video

Video - test of the silhouette and the animation together

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Egg test - Images

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Below I have attached a few images in relation to the egg test that we did within our group. Hu was the thrower of the egg within the protected materials.

For more information on how the egg was secured in place be sure to look back at Leanne's post relating to Belbins theory and the egg test.

Egg wrapped in a protective surface before the throw out of the window

Hu preparing for the throw of the egg

After the throw of the egg out of the window checking to see if the egg was broken

Result of what happened to the protective surface 

One of our balloons popped which was because of the impact of the fall which also saved the egg from breaking since we arranged the protective layers and balloons to hit the ground on first contact which took most of the impact rather than the egg taking the impact.

Final outcome - Perfect egg which did not break!

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Belbin Test Result

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As Leanne has stated in the previous post we looked at Belbin and his theory within a group. For me the main and strongest area's were Resource Investigator and Teamworker we also decided that as a group our weakest area's were Monitor Evaluator and Implementer.

Below you will see an example of the documents which I have scanned in relation to the strongest area's for me and the amount of points each section added up to. Please click image for a larger view

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