plastic, sound and other issues

I find out that 4 plastic sheets for my column/vitrine design would cost around £100, or £400 to have the edges polished for the corners and assembled. I will redesign the column with less plastic, or with alternative material.

I have talk to Carl for headphones and Mac minis, and it looked hopeful I'd be able to use 4 headphones and 2 minis.

I've also been creating clips.

There was a wedding party on a boat on the river Spree, and the group had just got off onto the riverbank. The Wall and the TV tower are in the background. The clip starts with a post-celebration image, and the balloons come back into people's hands. I'm planning on making a another clip with images taken at the same location, but subtly different, to portray uncertainty of memories.

These images were also shot on the riverbank which used to divide East and West. On the building that was once used by the East German border guards is an advert for Sky, which reads, I do not watch TV. I see something better ["Ich guck keine Fernsehen. Ich seh was Besseres." ]

Although this isn't visibly too clear.

Red phone and images of Lola Rennt. The film was shot in Berlin, where Lola fights with time and changes what was supposedly her destiny in the changing city, with multiple experiences of parallel timelimes. 

blind critique

This is the draft clip I made for the blind crit session today, with sound I added [not by Terry and Nick]. I'll make further considerations, tests and adjustments regarding the following points.

General

Quiet observations of everyday things, poetic, dreamy, subtle

Some surprises, revealing the hidden

Need to specify what the message is. How ambiguous or descriptive should it be, for the audience in England to understand

Don't overload messages (subjective nature of memory, on top of nostalgia, divide and loss) 

Repetition of images were unnecessary, and some images dragged on

Length (7 minutes) seemed okay [this will be different once it's looped]

Sound

Sound at the end of the clip wasn't prominent enough [this would change when it's on loop]

Letting sound be sound works with images

Should relate directly to images, which will clarify the message

Some of these were surprising for me to hear, as my intentions were perceived in a different way (for example, repetition of images with different background sound was to enhance the sense of subjective memory). I thought it might seem too long and too subtle, but that didn't seemed to be a problem with the group I met today.

Considerations on Planer LC15 ANN 1000

Issues I will consider in using Planer LC15 ANN 1000 for the MA Show are:

• ratio/resolution of screen, from laptop or DVD player to the screen, 
• how to hang it inside the vitrine, and
• resolving the reflection of the screen.

I will also contact Sandlant again, to ask if the plastic sheets could be cut to size, and mitred on some of the edges.

I am working on the design of the column/vitrine:

• on how to hang the screen, 
• on connecting cables, and
• where to place the speakers.

A column would allow me to hang the screen inside, which a NUCA vitrine (below) wouldn't.

Measurements of a NUCA vitrine