Live Client Project - Editing

The current editing process is taking much longer than expected as the clips seem to be taking hours to render and then export. I have tried different compressions for the .jpeg files, and in the end it was quickest and easiest to put each day together as an Image Sequence in Quicktime. I then saved this as a .mov and am now editing it in Final Cut Pro. I have edited one week so far and it seems to be going pretty well, the export is so far taking 15 minutes which is good, although this is only to MPEG-4 format, at a low quality. It seems any other format wont export because the file size is too large. Overall there were roughly 7,000 .JPEG images for each days worth of footage. Towards the end it was nearing to 14,000 .JPEG's a day. Overall there have been about 120,000 to edit. At the time I didn't realise what a large project this would end up being, and how time consuming. However, i am learning along the line so it seems worth while.

Artefact 3 - Smell

In this weeks artefact I am aiming to discover what effect the sense of smell has when inlcuded with watching given texts. The two texts are: a Hovis advert and a film trailer for the film Chocolat.

I want to find out is whether the sense of smell can sway a persons view of the piece of text chosen. The two texts are:

Hovis Advert


Chocolat Trailer


This will be important for research in Interaction Design, to justify whether interaction is becoming a common language that can be shared all over the world because the senses do not involve the spoken language but operate on a more emotional level.

Serpentine Gallery Construction

Multimedia Exhibition Ideas

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6D Cinema

Adlabs has produced India’s first multi-sensory cinema which consists of 3D images, and simultaneous experience of smell sound touch and motion, and interaction with the characters.

The only sense not included is taste. However, it would be simple to make this a 7D cinematic experience. The film is a 30 minute piece about the evolution of India, so to include taste there could be a range of Indian food to be tasted throughout the film. Like in Noel Coward's adaptation of Brief Encounters, when the characters ate cucumber sandwiches, so did the audience.

Artefact 2: Taste

The main aims of the artefact is to discover:

• Can taste be used as a sense to enhance user experiences to create a multi sensory interaction design?

• Is taste about personal preference to be tested by an electronic tongue?

• Does taste trigger memories, like the sense of touch?

• To discover whether it is too soon to be considering this as a form of interaction as there is not yet an existing device which uses this sense

The artefact consisted of 6 bowls filled with food that the taste buds are sensitive to:

• Salt (Doritos)
• Sugar (Lychee, Poppets)
• Sour (Lemon)
• Bitter (Vinegar)

The participants were blindfolded and asked to taste and were interviewed and filmed.

When asked if they would like to try before they buy via interaction, i.e mobile phone half said they would like to, half wouldn’t.

Three quarters of the participants would also not trust an electronic tongue to be involved in taste testing e.g for wine or a new flavour crisp. They would want human testing because a machine could not test personal preference.

When the food was placed on a different part of the tongue the flavours were much more enhanced. Lemon juice was much more bearable and sweeter at the tip of the tongue rather than at the back.

Personal taste was the main difference in all the experiments.

Culture made the participants trigger more memories about seasons, and experiences.

Fussy eaters were more likely to like the idea of trying the taste of something new via their mobile phones (if this technology were to become available)More traditional thinkers would not like this change as taste is personal and they would not be sure their phone would be always clean.

Artefact 2 Research: Taste: Electronic Tongue

For years scientists have been developing a way to enhance user interaction by creating a multisensory experience.

The electronic tongue is one development that could have the potential to change the world in which we live in now. The tongue is being tested to have the ability to taste and analyse:

- liquid food
- beverages
- brews, analysis of homogenates (flesh food, fruits, vegetables)
- analysis of vegetable and olive oils.
- Raw materials, intermediates, final products, taste substances, food additives.



The tongue is also being tested to have basic human perception of taste such as salty, sweet, bitter, sour and umani, and even mimic the movements of the mouth.

With this new chemical technology...what is next, tasting the menu before you order via your mobile phone?

I aim to test in my artefact whether this is something which people could actually get used to doing this? Is there a need to taste before you buy? Is taste really that important of a sense to use during interaction? and finally how could taste be crossed between cultures, is there a cultural divide between tastes and how would this adapt in technology?

John Baldessari: Painting a room

Here is a link to a timelapse piece made in 1971.
http://www.ubu.com/film/baldessari_colorful.html

Artefact 1: Touch

The first artefact is an experiment investigating the sense of touch through interaction with objects and textures.

The participant was blindfolded to eliminate of the sense of vision, taste and smell. The purpose was to discover whether the participants’ individual experience or cultural background affects the response to an object.

The objects used are based around the factors that formulate the sense of touch:
- Pressure (Flour, Kitchen Foil, Peeled Grapes)
- Pain (Lasagne sheets broken up)
- Temperature (Hot Water, Cold Flannel)
- Individual Experience (Grass, Hair)

The results showed that the object initially intimidated the participants because they could not see it. This triggered uncomfortable reactions and an initial dislike for the object followed by a warmed reaction to the object, and then memories were triggered. The cultural differences were apparent with the German participant, as he was calm, logical and methodical although did not reveal as many childhood memories but more intimate, personal memories.

Most of the memories triggered were from childhood as young as 5 and were connected to the grass, foil and the broken lasagne. Many of the participants described similar memories of school playing fields in primary school and packed lunches. The German participant compared these textures to seasons rather than childhood memories; although this may be that he is much older than the other participants.

The experiment was successful in showing the individual reactions to object although it often triggered similar memories, therefore suggesting that there is a common form of interaction with an object.

If I were to do this again I would limit the participants’ sense of hearing more, so that they do not guess through sounds. Although on the other hand this did help participants trigger memories.

The next artefact will investigate the sense of taste.

Client Project Editing Research

This film records the process of dismantling an exhibition. There a a few camera angles and the film cuts between the three. The time stamp is kept on the film. There is one frame every 20 seconds, this is particularly quick. The process is not covered for long and there is not much progress in the film. However, in my filming there is much more detail, although this means the film will be much much longer than this. I will need to experiment with different timing for the clips in my film and concentrate on the soundtrack used. This one is a fast drum and bass beat which is simple and effecting, creating a sense of adrenaline whilst watching the film.

New Art Exchange Exhibition Opening

Here is the New Art Exchange where my time-lapse filming has been taking place.

The project so far has run smoothly, with only problems being with the capturing and the age of the old laptops using for the capture. I originally started with two web cams attached to two old laptops with views from different perspective. At the end of the filming i ended up with one webcam, and one stand alone .avi web cam with a wide angle view.


This is the view which will be seen in the webcam. Most of the footage is from this angle.


This is the webcam on the window sill in the NAE. This view manages to capture the whole space of the gallery with the light behind the webcam to get a good quality image.



This is me filming the opening event for the exhibition 'Floating Coffins' by Zineb Sedira which the web cam footage has been leading up to. This extra footage captures the public flooding into the exhibition.

The filming went well, although I didn't manage to record a soundtrack for the film as there was a DJ that would have been playing songs which i would not have the rights too use in my film. I will search local bands to record for a soundtrack.