Sebastian Denham

So through this semester i have been exploring ways in way i can find a subject that can replicate time to a great extent in the beginning i have been exploring what out comes i can get with time lapse. I then decided that id rather explore time in a detail of slow motion and show people just how much detail can be shown through slow motion , the subject matter was water , the reason being is because time flows like how water does , so i decided to go along with this type of subject matter to show how well time can be represented by water. 

Through the years of me exploring photography, i have always had a interest in macro photography and heavy detail that we as humans take for granted. Detail in slow motion has also inspired me in what we miss out on in a sudden occurrence. My research question for this semester has been how much detail does the human eye miss out on in a sudden occurrence. 

So in the process of doing the vimeo project i decided to change my story , due not being able to get hold of my cousin when needed. i did deiced to do a funny story in the process straight after but because i decided this a tad late i also couldn’t get actors for that film either.

So now i have decided to a metaphorical story bases on gaming addiction , the actor being me, i have been playing computer games ever since a little a kid and a lot of different people out there can relate to gaming as everyone has played games once on their life , as well as people in the current BCT class majority of people play games or have a relationship to them. The game being played in the film in Counter strike but is not the main focal point to the film the main focal point is me the gamer being addicted to the game and how i react to the game if say for instance i die , instead of taking it as it comes i over react to it , and express emotion over the game. so this film is very quick short and gets to the point of addiction.

So now we are down to the last part of the paper , and we as student have to come up with our own idea/proposal to then be submitted to The Edge interactive Screen. My idea that i have come up with is to create big images that have been created by smaller images. i will be exploring this idea with MAX msp, and with MAX it will help me show my idea , what MAX will is turn on the web cam and i will have the web cam mounted to a box with a clear perspex box that will be mounted at the top so what the user is to put their hands in the light from out side the clear perspex with light up your hands and show up on the web cam. I have hand drawn the box i want to have built for the screening at the edge. I have pictures to show how the box should be built. The requirements need for this project is that we have to come with an idea that can be used in the space , we are told that we have to look at the space and understand that the area around us can possibly affect the screening so we weary that our working has to be shown in a way that it has a relationship to the space and the screening has to have a relationship to the public as the viewer. My idea explores hands and how we has a human can make thousands of different types of shapes with our hands. So with the box i have created or designed we can as a user put our hands inside the perspex box and with the camera facing down we can have a contrast of our own hands against a dark base or white base the user has the option of changing the base to either black or white.

Throughout this project i have been engaging with projectors and programmes such as MAX msp. and the VR suite. The first project i worked in a group where we as a group decided to create a screening that involves four projectors and projected in a way of how you would see it if you were actually there in the space so for example if you were to be looking at the roof then the projection will be set above you an so fourth , we as a group found this very challenging in setting up the projectors to show the space as the space that it should be if you were in that location.

During the time of presenting the work and development basically got thrown away and we did a security type of servalance of the body’s profile , and have different profile shots to show a type of police view of a criminal that has committed a crime. this idea just sprung up and was mad on the spot in less that an hour . The amount of work that i did have developed was valid but in term of transferring the idea to the viewer using web cam was very difficult.