5 March 2013

Tutorial with David Curtis-Ring

05.03.2013

A really helpful tutorial today with David Curtis-Ring and Jo - lots of inspiration & new ideas to think and consider with my project.

Some points we discussed (too many ideas, loved them all!):

- Developing the idea of this interactive Birmingham skyline

- Like the idea of 'flat pack' - that it can be transported/taken anywhere almost as a toy

- Suggested the idea of being able to attach it to a TV/Computer monitor & use the screen as a light source - create a DVD/scenery to be played in the background and play with puppets in front. Being able to 'hide' modern technology behind this puppet screen, adapt the use of space to create a new focus in the room (like how people used to put a 'doily' on the TV!) 

- Idea of layering. (creating video, then puppet, then recording it to put back on the TV/Computer, to then play again on screen etc) - Play/project either weather or other different Birmingham exports (TV programme Doctors, Pepper-mill at One etc)

- OHP projections? - practice shadow on this

- Music Video. Look at mashing up different music samples from Birmingham 

- Video: Drop in different buildings into the screen depending on when they were built & the music of that era could be played in the background

- As well as 'static' building puppets, idea of having a few different 'floating' puppets eg helicopter (Birmingham link to military hospital)

-Any way to adapt it to mobile phone size?

- Work out what I want to film & how I will go about doing that (trial runs)

- Simple blog posts

- Less focus on the actual buildings for now (they seem to work!)

References mentioned:

1) Music Video ' Katachi' by Shugo Tokumaru:
This is a stop frame animation, but elements of this are smiler to the idea that looked into with the synchronised/kaleidoscope ballet dancers, and an effective way of putting it to music.

2) Lottie Reiniger - Hansel and Gretel

3) Peter Callesen - Paper engineer:






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