editing pictures for interactive space project

Today I have planned what pictures I am going to put in my project and I have edited them to suit the mood of each picture. I have pretty much been stereotypical in how i have edited my pictures. For example my story is based on going out to a party or choosing to stay in to do work. The work pictures are in black and white and the party pics are bright and colourful. I have used blurred effects and distorted a couple of the images. I shall be putting them together on Tues to come up with my space!

Interactive space seminar--IDEAS

In our seminar, to help with our interactice space project, I found this very interesting and very realistic. Even though I will be ony using photographs in my project this you-tube obviously uses video footage is much more complex. It gives you choices throughout the video as I will be doing in my interactive space project. Lots of camera techniques are used and the mans face is not seen thorughout the video which is quiter unusual. there are also lots of closeups in which detail can be used however, the format is small.
This has helped me in giving me ideas in the way I will be taking pictures in my project.

HTML????????????

Im finding HTML rather confusing right now -linking, hotspots etc, however I am sure iIwill get the hang of it with some practice. I also am still not 100% positive what my interactive space project is going to contain!

interactive space seminar

SPACES/ZONES....


Architectual Wayfinding. I learnt that there are 5 primary elements to architectual wayfinding.


1 paths
2 markers
3 nodes...
4 edges
5 zones
These are the design criera for highly legible and comprehsible urban enviroments.

I also learnt the circulation system is the key organising element of a site or buliding. People use circulation systems to develo a mental map.
There are difeerent spaces that contain diffeent zones. The way the space is designed is created so a use can be performed. They all vary.
We transition to different spaces. Eg in bathroom we take our clothes off or bedroom, however you don't do that once you walk out the room.
Eg the square in Nottingham. The square is very common to have events eg xmas stalls, etc...
Or in Australia Brisbon, eg China Town there is a street there you drive on the oppoisite side of road in China Town to reflect the Chinese laws.

This seminar gave me more of an insight that bulidings are bulit to function accordingly.

Ideas for interactive space

A second practice I did was something very basic, cleaning up my room:

Interactive space

 think this will be my most favourite project so far. We have been set the task to take some pictures and create a narrative. I could perhaps use it in my final project. However I have decided already what I shall be doing. Tonight I am going out and my project will be based on this.

Today I have been busy taking pictures and experimenting to create a narrative. Just by using simple techniques.

The first is simple making a drink:

One Shot Group Edit- REVERSE

This is our final film. We attempted to be as inventive and creative as possible. I thought we came up with a strong film which worked well. We had Dan Cody going forward in time, whilst the rest of us went backwards. I enjoyed making this film. We spent a lot of time discussing how we were going to perform in the film but we just ended up doing our own thing. I thought it worked quite well and looks relatively clever. Mark set up the camera composition whilst Nadjet and I chose the spot. It is quite quirky and the mise-en-scene also works well. We also managed to include everyone in our group inside the mise-en-scene.
Negative points about our film included Dan Cody not being in the centre of the frame. It took it a little offside which didn't ruin the film, but put  damper on it.
 At the end of the film Dan is shouting ACTION however it is backwards (reverse footage) .
And, here it is:


One Shot Group Edit from Mark Boam on Vimeo.

Ideas for one shot film

Our group came up with the idea that if we reversed our footage then we could come up with an inventive, intelligent idea. We used you-tube to grab some ideas. Here is an example I looked on you-tube to give me some inspiration.




Through looking at this video we came up with our final film.

One shot film Practice!

For my second project of multimedia we were to get in groups to produce a one shot film. We did that and were given the opportunity to experiment and have a practice using the title, 'you decide'. We planned what we were going, I was poorly when we came to shoot so unfortunately missed it!  This is how the film came out in the end:


One Shot Original Footage from Mark Boam on Vimeo.



For our test shot, we also experimented again, however this was not long enough. We came up the idea of reversing footage which worked well and so decided we would use this technique in our final group film.

One shot test shot from Mark Boam on Vimeo.