Creative Media Exploration

Coding was not a skill that I had before starting this module. I explored Scratch in secondary school but had forgotten that knowledge. “The relationship between artificial intelligence and human development is being debated more than ever before as algorithms, computers and smartphones play a growing role in our personal and professional lives.” (Yahoo, 2019). Scratch: To understand the basics of coding I started by exploring scratch. A programming language aimed at age 6 to 16 year olds however for someone who has done near to no coding before it was a perfect place to start. Within the Scratch Community there were many tutorials starting from the basics onwards to help me. This is  one of the first tutorials I followed learning how to code effects to sprites. For example, in the screenshot to the left, the sprite 'N' will grow and then shrink in size when clicked on due to the code that is in the window in the centre of the screen. This screenshot on...

Using animatronics in performance was not something that I had considered before. Development  1: Ee used Arduino, an open-source electronic platform and some of their more basic boards, to learn how to code in the software. Started by using premade code.   Development 2: Played around with some more of the coding which was available on the Arduino site before the next lesson. Development 3: Wanted to combine the two coding chains which interested us the most. These were ‘ForLoopIteration’ and some code I found to use a photoresistor.

The idea of creating a performance in 360 or Virtual Reality was new and exciting. Development 1: Came up with the idea of combining a VR experience and smells in the real world. Decided on kitchen as the location and an weird cooking experience as what the user would see. Development 2: Took out the camera (Ricoh Theta S) and explored it in my own time to understand how to best use it. Development 3: Filmed in a larger kitchen but the lighting was not ideal so decreased the final quality of the video. Improvised the experience to make it not feel fake. Development 4: When sharing our piece we made many developments such as working out the exact direction of where each smell or interaction needed to happen. Gathered lots of feedback from users.   Difficulties: Not everyone knew “how to use the VR headset, for example how to adjust the focus and the volume” (Fromwell, 2018) so not everyone got a clear experience. Bibliography: Fro...

I already had an interest in Projection Mapping however never had the skills to explore this. But I had already used Isadora software in a different was so was familiar with the set up. Development 1: We used a few cardboard boxes to begin experimenting with projecting on to different angled surfaces. Varied videos on different surfaces to allow viewers to create their own narrative.                                                 Development 2: Chose a more difficult surface to project on because of the shape. Added different layers of projections. Started to add narrative.                                                     Development 3: To improve we would explore linking Isadora code to an...

The first prototype we developed was an Immersive Interactive Composition using the software Qlab. This is an industry standard for putting together media for live shows such as image, video, audio and lighting. Development 1:  We decided on a city walk-through soundscape which quickly transformed into the user going into a burlesque club. We imported a few sounds and I learnt to edit the timing and direction of the sound using the different components of Qlab. Development 2: Kat took the lead with importing the audio and editing the timing and initial sound direction. Morium located suitable audio for the composition and gave feedback at key stages of development in-terms of the level of volume and direction of sound. My role was to take audio files using Reaper to edit them using Sennheiser’s Ambeo Orbit to create a more immersive binaural sound. Development 3: To improve the piece I would elongate the beginning section of walking through the city becau...