Maps and journeys - Planning progress

I thought i would upload all of our planning and testing that we have done so far  on here to keep it organised and all in one place.

Synopsis

installation piece biased around the the spiritual journey of the after life. Using sound, light and visuals we want to take the viewer on an emotional journey to what we have researched the after life to be like. To experience the spiritual Journey  we want to use white lights that slowly fade in and out to black, this will over all be a calming experience as thats what most people described in my research. We might threw the odd shilloette of a person in as some people said they saw figures, how ever we want to focus mainly on the lights and the sound to create a calming effect. The sounds we will use will be  binoral so we can create an all round feeling in the person. we will have really heavy bass tones so that the person can feel it vibrating through them as well as some kind of calming music and sounds. 

Treatment

Working title : After life

Duration 2 ½ minutes looping

Target audience – All ages and genders

Sugested elements –

Lights fade in and out from black to white

Shapes like people suttely fade on and off screen

Sound is in time with lighting movement

Heavy bass feel it vibrate 

Scedual 

Visual style 

I found a short animation about not fearing death and i really liked the colours the used in the shot bellow and think some thing similar to this would look really good in our video 

The colour pallete they used in this video is 

( for some reason when i upload this to my blog it changes the colours of the image but if you type the codes on the colours into the colour selector on photoshop you can see an accurate colour) 

I like the colour scheme and style as its quite bright and clearly represents the light but its not to harsh that it hurts the viewers eyes and would give quite a calming effects

Learning agrement 

Timing plan ( to make sure sound and visuals fade in at the same time ) 

0-20seconds - fade in from black/no sound to full light and sound at half 

20- 40 seconds lights start to move around and sound fades to full 

40 - 60 seconds faint shilloetes of people apear, sound changes frequency slightly 

60 -90 seconds slowly fades back out in to black but not fully still small point of light , sound gets quieter 

90-100 seconds stays small and quite 

100 - 120 fades back in to full , same with sound 

120 - 140 more shillouetes appear , sound changes slightly 

140 -150 quickly pulls out to nothing 

Hannah is in charge of sound and i am in charge of the visuals she sent me a message last night about the things she has done so far on sound and her ideas on how we can present it. 

What has been done so far…

By creating a “patch” I have been able to create tones of the frequencies 110Hz, 106Hz and 30Hz.

I mixed them together to pan the 110Hz to the left and 106Hz to the right. The 30Hz is centrally panned and this creates an overall frequency of around 34Hz. The feeling you get when you listen to it is dizziness and tiredness.

This is still a test and a working progress I’m going to try and make more frequencies and see which ones work best for what we are trying to achieve.

the presentation style is still a work in progress to be tested and discussed about some more. 

WHAT TO DO NOW (other than whats in the schedule ) - 

risk assment for displaying it 

floor plan of how it will be displayed 

sort out the presentation style ! 

things we need to build it 

more tests on sound / visuals 

make the box 

make it loop 

make the final out come