Open module
You only know what you see
Open module is an initiative of the media and design academy Genk to stimulate cross disciplinary projects and teams. I decided to go and follow the module of Video/Tv/Movie.
The theme we had to stick with was “borderline”. This could be interpreted freely. We translated this to the movie/television world by deciding to work with the problematic of privacy. After the brainstorm sessions, 3 main ideas were ready to be developed. 1 consisted of building a large box where people would be filmed. This image would then be projected inside a little box somewhere else giving the impression that these people are small ants in a box! The second idea was to create a little immersive play where you would have to navigate through a space, guided only by images of security cameras. The third and final idea was to make (automatic) pictures of unsuspecting people and then projecting these onto a screen, thus making them aware they are watched everywhere.
Setting up a multi-camera system
For setting up a multi-camera system I, the multi-media nerd I am, started coding a rather “complicated” system for switching webcams in processing. After making too much compromises in quality, I finally gave up.
Because I was in a video module we were thaught how to set up an analog multi-camera setup. Rather cool to do, learned a lot! You can see somse pictures of us setting up and testing out.
Software used/skills learned:
- preparing a multi-camera set-up
- experimenting with a lo and hi-fi head mounted display
