Photo Diary | Exhibition Room Day 2

We had a very full day between set design, and today's deadline for our group evaluation and individual self-evaluation reports.

The Flower Bed Interaction

Alannagh multitasking; set design & group evaluation

Siobhán typing the group evaluation 

40" LCD TV on loan from Harvey Norman

the room is taking shape 

To view our progress today in photos: Click Here

Annie.

Set Design | Mobile Frame

The Mobile Frame

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Three interactions will hang from the mobile. Three different shapes; a fish, a flower and a butterfly. Siobhán and Fodhla are making the technology, and Annie's mum is decorating the plastic canvas frame. They are going to be amazing!

Alannagh made a great job of the mobile. See the mock-up design here.

Annie.

Set Design | Microphone Interaction

Alannagh worked hard today on set design. In fact, Alannagh made so much progress it will have to be blogged over several posts! She's amazing at this kind of thing, take a look...

A microphone stand covered with green fleece material and
decorated with fairy lights.
Alannagh handmade the flowers from paper & attached them to the lights.

add electricity

add one microphone courtesy of Annie's brother 

embed the microphone in paper

and hey presto, a fully functional flower-style microphone interaction

Click here to see a prototype design, and click here to see what the microphone controls on screen.

Annie

Photo Diary | Exhibition Room Day 1

As luck would have it we were allocated a sound proof room to exhibit REplay :) This is perfect, and necessary, for our microphone interaction to work effectively.

our room is on the corridor between the two exhibition areas

Alannagh's mate Niall setup the 40" TV we have on loan from Harvey Norman

Niall told us we need one of these to make
our Mac G5 compatible with the TV

* Thanks Niall, for your help and advice * 

The TV will sit in front of the polystyrene wall feature.

it absorbs sound waves and stops them from
bouncing around the walls, and more importantly it looks fab

While we prepare our room for set design and equipment, other groups have the tiring task of assembling, painting and decorating their exhibit kits. I don't envy them!

Alannagh in the exhibition hall with a group of 4th year students from the
BA (Hons) in Video and Film Production 

These four guys spent all day on their space making it into a room. They did a fantastic job. They ran slats of wood across the top and draped weed control fabric over the top, and over the entrance, to make the room dark. Very impressive.

This is exactly what we had planned until we were allocated a room. I can safely say it would have taken us four girls more than one day to achieve the same result.

a closer look at their entrance 

To view our progress today in photos: click here.

Annie.