Project Wrapup

As I described in class, though I had a bit of a hangup with the audio, I'm so close to getting things close. Even in its partial state, I was surprised that it was still able to kind of work.

I'm going to continue to work, and if it is possible I would like to show at the wednesday showing. I took a small parts aproach, working on each section on there own. I would love to see all the parts working together, because I know the effect of the project will be much better.

Though I played partial parts of the four settings I made, I thought I'd include them here as well.



I think I remember saying during the prototype discussion that I described it as ambivalent... I realized that about a week later, what I really meant was ambiguous. There is a quality shared by each track, though I tried to give each a different type of coloration.

Things I would change if I were to do this again:

I would have started earlier with the media. I was way to cautious, I just had to go for it, and when I did I wasn't too disappointed, in fact I was quite happy with the audio

I would have got an actor. I'm not an actor, and I have essentially no dynamic range. I think it would have been more interesting for me as well, I can't help shake the narcissistic vibes.

I knew I could potentially have problems with the programming, and was happy to get the video pretty much exactly as I wanted. However, the audio...I didn't anticipate where I would have the difficulty with the getting the control values. I thought that the prototype had given me a good clue about what sort of difficulties I would have processor wise, but when I finally put everything together, problems popped up that I was sort of at a loss for.

Either way, I had fun putting this together, setting the sound environments, and brushing up on my max/msp jitter understanding. I am really close to setting up what I envisioned. Even with this early setup today, I still think the thing has some potential.

question...(sorry about how late these are)

Alright, so my concerns are in several areas,

The central video (the starting point will be the basically inactive, the neutral point. It'll just show me eating, drinking, plain lighting.

Then four different corners with different extremes( very tenative):
1. sunny day, looking out the window, watching cars go by or whatever, slowly walking around
2. twilight, laughing discussing with friend
3. night, angry, box throwing, kitchen is a mess
4. night, probably flickering light, might experiment with a projector for shadow stuff, figure sitting in chair, zombie-ish

sound- snippets of conversation will be roving about the tablet, so parts of the story will move from place to place, phone conversations, dialogue, etc.

ok, thoughts on these basic things, any reccomendations for what to watch out for. I'm behind schedule on the filming because I have not been able to nail down thoughts on the how to describe a partial story...

Where I'm at (week 6)

-integrated wacom with MAX/MSP
-got mixing to work between the two test videos


I assumed I could potentiall have cpu problems...and already even without sound, and three less videos, the computer is stalling.

Going to have to play around with encoding. Currently using the H.264 video encoder, got a 17 meg and 70 meg file (of equal length and resolution, but one has much more color info). Resolution is 1280 by 720, maybe a bit high?

Going to prepare basic sound for the prototype, and also worked on getting the appropriate mixer setup for the video arrangment I diagramed. Filming for real this weekend. seriously