'You don't know the half of it'

Today was the day where we finally set up our installation. It was a very long day trying to finalise the last few details. We came across some complications but we were able to overcome them. We started off by testing the projection, we tried it in a couple off different places in the room with different proportions. In the end we decided to have it projecting on the back wall and making it quite large. We had to change the colour and the contrast of the photos on the projector as they were coming up very red. Projector  Next we had to to hang the masks, we found that after a while the string was sliding off the thumb-tacks so we fixed this by attaching blue tack to them to give more strength and support. We had to play around with the arrangement of the masks to make sure they weren't all bunching in one area and that they hung at different levels to look like they were dispersed appropriately. A quick fix Hanging masks Another issue that we had was the masks bl...

Today, we want back into the room in which we will be presenting our installation, we started off by testing out the hanging of the masks. To do this, we got a clear string so it would give the illusion that the masks were floating by themselves. We punched holes at the top of the masks with a hole puncher. We then attached different lengths of the string to the masks so they would all hang at different levels. We then tied the string around thumb-tacks and thankfully they were strong enough to hold the weight of the string to the masks when attached to the ceiling. We turned off all the main lights and only left on one, we played around with different lighting tones and strengths and we were happy with how everything was coming together, we felt that small spot lights may be more affective and we are going to try that the next day. Unfortunately, the projector was not working in our favour today so we have to bring a HTMI adaptor the next day which will hopefully work for us. ...

Today, we spent some time editing the empty noise we will have behind the voices in the instalment. It was challenging to get the clip to loop properly so that there was no break in between the loops of the clip because the clip is only a minute long. We finally got it to work and we are happy with the end product. The sound we used is royalty free and is called 'Ambient Cave' and we found it on Sound Bible.com. Here is the link: http://soundbible.com/6-Ambient-Cave.html Editing the empty noise and trying to make sure there is a smooth transition between each loop. After recording all the recordings of words on a Zoom mic, we have finalised what recordings we will be using. The Zoom mic we used. We then named each of the recordings by the word that was said. The recordings named by word said. Then, we brought each of the recordings into Audition where we cut the clips down, played around with the levels and faded in and out the recordings. It was important...

Today, we attended Helen's workshop on the group project presentation. We found the workshop really beneficial and it really helps us in narrowing down what to put in our presentation. The workshop made us aware of the importance of the presentation and we learned what makes a good presentation. We thought about questions we may be asked after our presentation and prepared answers for these questions. We discussed and wrote down what we feel makes a good speaker and a good presentation from our previous experience. We were thought the importance of having a story incorporated in the presentation. A story in a presentation keeps the audience engaged so we came up with our own story we will incorporate into our presentation. This is the simple storyboard of that story. We learned that a good presentation has a 'Hook' at the beginning, three key points in the presentation and a call to action at the end of the presentation.  We will take everything...

Today, we went and visited the room where we will be presenting our instalment. It is a large room with no windows which is perfect because we want the room to be dark for this instalment. We don't want any natural light, we want the only light source to come from the little lights we plan to have. It was good to get a feel for the room. We figured out where we're going to hang the masks and where the projector is going to go. We plan to have the projected images projected onto the white background. The room where we will present our instalment.

We are making a video to play in the instillation. The video will consist of people's faces flashing and the words that are written on the masks will be played aloud as the flashing images show. We decided to use a black background. To make the people really stand out, and therefore your focus won't shift from from the person to the background.  We are blacking out the background using photoshop.  The method we are using is selecting the person, using smart radius to help define our selection more and then selecting inverse, then using the burn tool on the shadow option and blending out any parts that we missed. After than we flattened the image and exported it as a PNG. We followed the below tutorial on youtube:

The masks turned out quite well after we left them to dry. We were happy with how they dried. The painted turned out really well. We then went onto to try and figure out how we were going to write the words on the masks. We played around with the size of the lettering, kerning and whether or not to make the words capitals or not. We wrote the word out in pencil first and then wrote over it in black marker. We first tried out using a tippex pen on the black side of the mask but found that the tippex chipped away from the black paint so we needed to come up with another tool we could use. We tried a marker for writing on steel but found that to be too watery. We then found the perfect white marker in Art n Hobby which gave off the effect we wanted.