- vr painting
I decided to Instagram message Manards, a fictional designer combining his background in graffiti, classical fine arts, and graphic design in his unique portfolio. I came across his work on Behance and was instantly mesmerised. I couldn’t find a lot of information about his processes and his workflow so decided to message him on instagram. He provided me a lot of useful information and I will continue to use this research to delve into the world of messy interface further. The main link between his work and our brief is that he creates his futuristic three dimensional design from a reconfiguration he creates of famous “grandmaster” paintings in the idea of them centuries ago actually being exposed to computer softwares and programmes. This is a real life example of juxtapositioning analogue and digital works. The original painting therefore being analogue and Manards design being digital. A messy interface.
To the right is a colour palette I have created colour dropping colours from of his pieces and editing them on nomad sculpt.
my first movie reference is from 500 days of summer. A 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Marc Webb. I was just watching this film with my friends and the split screen scene really stood out to me. In Tom’s fantasy-prone brain, their evening together — and Summer’s invitation to come to a party at her apartment — can only mean one thing: she is still interested. As Tom skips over to the party, flowers and party favor in hand, the screen splits in two. On the left, we’re presented with Tom’s expectations for the night he hopes will be an intimate rekindling of their past relationship. On the right is what actually transpires, the reality of boundary-heavy hugs and solo-beer drinking.
So this sparked my project to develop and take a turn away from the visuals for the event space to creating a possible exhibiton experience. Still including the virtual reality aspect that I was experimenting into, but having this as a multi sensory element to the exhibiton. I came to this decision after speaking to Adam in the group crits. This change in brief will allow for me to add more of a communication aspect to my work, and fine tune what I am trying to say. ***This develops throughout my ongoing development
The main room could include a split screen possibly including real footage of the mill through my camera and the 360 camera. Then in contrast as the reality vs ( you could say ) digital, is a three dimensional version of the mill and how it adapts to from rave spaces and music event space, including floorpan and different rooms. This will then present the audience with the exploration into reconstruction of industrial spaces throughout Manchester. Through the contrast in the split screens, but also an interesting underbelly message of how the digital advancements could then create a full loop. Where these developed spaces then just become a place to possibly just put your virtual reality head set on? So in a nutshell sticking to my original idea but adapting this to show a clear contrast, and adapting the space from raw footage to a Digital version. Expanding my brief with mentions of the meta verse and what this could have as an impact on infrastructure. Future reconstruction. Would buildings just be left to rot and go derelict with no secondary adaptation?
Inception explores a theory of dreams where a person can extract information from a subject’s mind by sharing a mutual dream with them. This procedure is taken further to a stage where a new idea can be planted in someone’s mind.
The film explores the concept of dream within a dream, within another dream. Although this sounds unreal, Inception presents us a variety of environments that portray different levels of dreams. The team plants a small idea at the first level of dream, and build onto that idea at deeper levels of dreams to allow it to grow into the dreamer’s subconscious.
Nolan has used architecture to differentiate between the changing environments. - lead to my experimentation of the 360 camera in my next sketchbook website page
- also the dream within a dream, uncanny valley, liminal space are all feelings that closely relate to each other. I want to incoperate this exploration into my final moving image pieces some how, as I think this is such an interesting human feeling that gets triggered from both physical architectural space and also from digital AI and film.
^ is also a interesting link to architecture and the warping/ distortion and unlikely reference to building and construction. The warping is similar to the way we feel in liminal space and how these spaces warp in our perception, when filled with light/ people/ cars they feel recognisable and normal. The second they are distorted by lighting/ lack of people etc they trick our brains and create an eeriness emotional response and an almost fever dream/ dreamlike feel.
Revised brief
After being so inspired by 500 days of summer split screen I started to redevelop a brief. So I wanted to keep the base concept of exploring the mill and its redevelopment. However I adapted my initial outcome from event responsive visuals to a pitch for a touring exhibiton representing the reconstruction of industrial buildings in specific cities and how these are revised for modern human consumption.
This felt more specific and had more of a purpose and a voice. I really enjoyed researching more specifically into why these buildings are reused and allowed me to expand on this brief to explore how modernised technologies may effect this process and reconstruction loop.
Therefore below is some expanding research on Padlet for my revisions and I have an updated brief that I am going to be submitting in my hand-in.