Monday, 29 October 2007

Monday, 22 October 2007

motion panoramas- a conclusion?

Los Angeles, 2019

Manhattan, 1989

New England, 2002

Northumbrian Coast, 2010

Washington DC, 2007


As a possible conclusion to the motion panoramas project ive been working on for the last month (see below), ive been piecing together panoramic landscapes from movies- removing segments of several individual frames from a single shot, then putting them back together, editing out the main character in the shot. above are a few examples of the pieces, but the final set will likely specifically be cityscapes. im pleased with it as a piece- taking a shot out of its original narrative context, just showing the scene's environment. im investigation the possibility of displaying in lightboxes when theyre finished. click for a better view...

ps- in case yr wandering, the films from which the shots are taken from are...
Bladerunner
American psycho
Final destination 2
Reign of fire
Die hard 4.0

Monday, 8 October 2007

motion panoramas continued




a continuation of the previously posted panoramas, created by stitching together stills captured from an old reel of super8 film. the upper image is taken from the window of a car, while the lower one (taken from my grandparents balcony during a thunderstorm) is a good demonstration of the problems im having with the software- the boundaries between the stitched frames are very obvious, with dark bands interrupting the image. as always, click for a better view...

free transformations mark 2- RESULT

a MASSIVE thankyou to all those who came down on saturday night for my second ever night of multimedia based dataflow. in the end, i only made a loss of thirty quid, which is a rousing success in my book. a big thank you to all the performers, video makers, and the people of invention for allowing me to deafen them for a night.

HIGHLIGHTS!

adam burton piecing together a backing track on his laptop (live on the projector), before slaying it with noise warbles

me screwing up the sound on all 3 video pieces by cacking about with the sound desk

alexander thomas playing the loudest theremin set in the history of the instrument, before finishing off with the quietest, most beautiful sounds ive heard live

joinedbywire slaying with harsh, fists in the air, noise

i videotaped all the performances, so once i get them captured (damn you final cut pro...) ill post em up for all the world to see on a popular video sharing site...keep a look out!