Screen moving

motor pulling cords and driving the screen closed

Foam Experimentation

shaving foam, changing light gave a strobe-ish effect

The Full Projection

Stills from final ballon footage

Ballon experimentation

found that popping with a heated wire was the best way but the mini balloons weren't suitable

the footage was sped up to convey volatile explosiveness- but this needed to be taken further

larger balloons but not as successfully contained, reversed to look like a growing cloud of smoke

Final Projection

Combined with the prog rock track 'Intermezzo Karelia' by 'The Nice'

Creating a mask

A still from my projected film with the mask

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WS9388626D-B940-43f3-87BB-7C3159F5EDE4.html

I applied psd photoshop files over my film footage, using photos of my screen and then subtracting everything apart from the shape ie.

scratching projection

screen closing up

Screen up and finished

making and tweaking

I put braces to connect the spokes at 90 degrees, the shorter arm was supposed to provide stability for the outer arms and stop the screen falling backwards, however, it caused jarring and got caught up in the motor.

Having so many connection particularly the arms set at 90 degrees prevented smooth movement around the ring

Having a solid centre looked good but the folds at the point meant that the screen would not concertina in

early model and Sketch Up

Thinking about using fabric and having two arms falling down, rather than a single arm rotating through 360. The model also used a central ring rather than multiple hinges.

I created a similar virtual model on sketch up which meant i knew i wanted each face to have a fold and point to add more depth, this meant that fabric wasn't suitable, and that i needed seven arms.

models

A larger model with thread attached to experiment with the mechanism

looking at differnt shapes, especsially the open shape at the central point

An early model to look into hingeing together the arms

looking at pop up cubes using elastic bands

A paper pop-up farm inspired the use of two arms

early mechanism that i considered using including a Jacob's Lader and an alarm clock with a rotating lid and base

wowsers

Struggling with the electronics has made me doubly impressed by these high tech pieces, definitely something for me to take inspiration from!

http://vimeo.com/9697015

I particularly like how the edges are highlighted at times and the shape of the piece, time to get creative with my folding