Progress

For this week I got a first draft of the menu screen for my project in photoshop. I'm planning on working on it more to make it blend a bit more and look a bit more cohesive, but the general idea is there.

Also I continued getting more footage for the videos that will play for each season, here is some of the winter footage I've compiled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKMmZTOLkGE&feature=youtu.be



So I still have more footage I'm working with but overall it's coming together nicely.

Project Timeline

My video will consist of footage of the citizens of Reno and how they interact, showing that the city has more than just a general population, but that the citizens continuously get together in artistic ways to express themselves.

The focus will be on how artistic the community is by showing people in various costumes at themed events, races, art events, etc, throughout the year, edited together in a artistic style to show the variety we as a community experience. 

4/03            Progress Critique #1 : continue gathering footage from outside sources, present to class final proposal
4/10            Progress Critique #2 : Finish compiling footage
4/17            Work/Demo Day : Work on editing footage
4/24            Progress Critique #3 : Finish editing footage
5/01            Work Day: Finalize editing and complete project
5/08            Final CRITIQUE/PROJECT #2 Due : done

Final Project: Video

For my final video project I would like to do something with downtown Reno, seeing as I am moving away from Reno soon and would like to do one more project involving the city. I have a couple ideas that I haven't solidified yet. But one is to take a collection of videos taken downtown from myself, friends, and youtube to show the different activities that go on in our city.

This includes the various bar crawls that involve thousands of people dressing in costumes and wandering downtown (santa crawl, pirate crawl, zombie crawl etc). As well as wine walks, ARTown, river festival and other events, and turning it into a kind of year round calendar of events showing all seasons.

My other idea would be a time-lapse of the Reno Arch, preferably once the weather gets better and there is more going on. 

I think it would be really cool to see all the different things that go on around and under the arch in one day. Especially once the weather warms up and people are walking around. It would be cool to capture the locals, tourists, and various street performers and homeless going about their day. For this i would need to find a place with a good vantage point of the arch where I would be able to leave the camera for an extended period of time.

Progress 3/6

This week we finalized our animated images to be used on each wall of the screen for each installation. We animated these in final cut using keyframes and wanted to make it look like you were zooming into one section of the image and being zoomed out of a similar matching section of a different image.

Aside from this we're finalizing securing our installation space at the JCSU and have begun construction on the installation itself.

 
We have each included a sample animation

Progress 2/21

We've begun to work on animating images in order to start making moving pictures to use as our projections, but are having some trouble getting the animations working perfectly in photoshop. So we've decided to switch over to Final Cut to utilize those animation opportunities in a better way.

We've figured out the general idea of how we want the animations to go. We want to start with star fields and use zooms in and out to transition into more colorful images of nebulae and planets etc.

So we found more images that could be linked together with star fields.

2nd Progress Report.

The room we were hoping to use was unavailable, so we need to go back to square one and look into other venues that will fit our goal. We're contacting the Planetarium to see what resources they have available, we may need to refocus our goal, as a full room projection installation is looking more difficult than we anticipated.

http://graphicdefiner.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/type-as-art/

http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/

We may need to focus more on a single aspect of the installation, such as more sound and animation, and using a space such as the planetarium to create something.

Maybe using planetarium resources to show animation like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ

After realizing the obstacles we have, we still want to try to stick around to our original idea, but we'll definitely need to figure out some logistics to make sure we can execute the idea.

1st Progress Report

Myself and Nicole Oshan have decided to attempt a projection installation that would mimic outer space. We plan to figure out a way to project on (hopefully) 3 walls and a ceiling, making it as immersion as possible including other aspects such as sound and animation.

At this point we are still researching everything, obviously the largest challenge will be figuring out the logistics of how to project in a room without blocking the projection and making sure it is all sized correctly.