SM2032 Intermedia Project
Project Proposal
Student name: xxx (xxx)
Student I.D.: 12345678
Supervisors: xxx
Date: 2 February xxxx
Project title:
Vestige of Life
Project description:
My project is going to present a short video in a new way. My project will be
exhibited in a room. The setting of the room is as below:
I will set up 4 large screens (monitors) with speakers in the room. Each monitor will
represent 4 different things, those are, a woman, a baby, a man and a goldfish from
left to right. First of all, when the audiences walk in the room, they will see the
decorations on the curtain. There will be some photos on the curtain showing the
environment of the area behind the curtain to be a bedroom. However, the photos are
only virtual images created by computer. When the audiences walk inside the curtain,
they can only find 4 monitors arranged as above. And at this time, they can hear the
sound of snore and all the lights are off. The 4 monitors are screening different things
which are the dreams of the four different objects. While the audiences are still
wondering what’s happened, there will be an alarm ringing loudly and phone ringing
and baby crying. At this time, the lights are on and the monitors all dip to black and
then begins to show different things. Now, the 4 monitors are showing the four
different points of view of the objects watching the things happening in same
bedroom where they are living. Besides, the speakers are respectively outputting the
audio track of the different monitors. That means audiences can hear what the
different objects hear by the different speakers.
Objectives:
In the project, I would like to try to experience a new form of presenting a video or a
story. On the other hand, I would like to give the audiences a new experience to use a
new way to observe a living object (for example mature human beings, new born
baby and animal) through watching their vision (see what they see), hearing their
hearing (hear what they hear), and reading their minds (observing their dreams).
Furthermore, I want to show the vestige of life through my project. It means that I
want to use my project to *show a story that happened in a bedroom at a specific time,
but I use the method of showing the vestigial thinking/vision/hearing of the living
objects to tell the story rather than showing the real things. Therefore, even there are
no decorations and real objects in the room, audiences still can know what has
happened in the room which in fact is a bedroom by experiencing the virtual images.
* (呈現某時段在那睡房所發生的故事, 但呈現的方法是透過曾經在那裡的人或
物所殘留的思想和視線和聽覺(即其感受)而不是其外在的物質, 所以就算沒有睡
房的佈置, 沒有真實的東西, 仍能從那 4 個螢幕所播放的那代表 4 樣不同生物的
片段來得悉在那時候在那間原來是睡房的房發生了什麼事。)
Project Reference:
Books:
Video art, Michael Rush, London : Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Cyberarts 99 : Prix ars electronica, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf., Wien ;
New York : Springer, 1999.
Cyberarts2000 : Prix ars electronica, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf., Wien ;
New York : Springer, 2000.
Websites:
http://web.mit.edu/vap/flash.html (about the artist Antonio Muntadas)
http://www.post-videoart.com (a site about video art, a good site)
Film:
Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonze, 1999
Previous work:
Final project of SM2204 Cultures of Mediate Perception (It is a project about a new
style of audio narration that uses left and right channel to represent different points of
hearing and to tell a story)
Methodology:
In the following months, I will try how to shoot things like the point of view of a
goldfish (maybe by adding a fisheye lens). Then I will write the script of the story and
think to add more elements in the story. After that, I will shoot and record what I need.
The final work I need to do is editing and is to synchronize the image and the sound
together for the four different monitors.
Schedule:
Feb pre-production (writing script, finding helpers, designing more details of the
project, etc.)
Mar-April Shooting, finding footage, recording,
April-May Editing
Mid-May final rehearsal, setting up all the things, demonstrating the whole project
Resources:
Venue: 1 room
Equipment: 2 20’’or upper monitors
2 17’’ monitors
4 pair of speakers
4 notebooks
Sony DSR-PD150P
Fisheye lens
Tripod
Sony TCD-D10 Pro II audio recorder
Sennheiser MKH416
Sennheiser Wireless Neck Mic
Audio Technica AT835B
Sony MDR-7506 headphone
C-stand
Clips
Software: MAX/MSP/Jitter
Premier
After effects
Nuendo
Maya
Processing