Progression of second project:

Chrissy, Nemesis, Ryan and I will be utilizing the arches in the campus center for our projection piece. After much discussion, we have decided on our concept. We met on Tuesday at the CC and Wednesday evening to narrow our topic and discuss how to actually make it work technically. Our concept involves a waterfall of color, utilizing the planters, arches and columns in the campus center. We are going to pour water into the planters above the arches in the campus center so that they overflow and the water goes down the brick columns. We will shoot approximately nine minutes of film.

In digital photography, if one shoots several shots of the same scene from the exact same position in RAW setting they can take these shots into photoshop and isolate the main colors. When overlayed, everything that did not move in the scene will have normal coloration whereas everything that moved will have a tri-color effect. We are going to try to do the same thing with film.

Patrick Connelly; Native American Museum 

Theoretically, or at least to start, we will take 3 minute segments and isolate a color and then overlay them again for the final product. We can then loop the clip, etc. The effect will be trippy tri-colored water spreading down normal colored columns of the campus center. We are going out to attempt this tomorrow afternoon and will post the resulting clip after we finish.

Some potential problems: Shooting in the daylight. Since we have to shoot at the actual campus center, if it is daylight, it might interfere with the projection quality of the bricks. Ideally, we will isolate the water (perhaps by getting rid of the bricks somehow) and just have the projection of the water flowing down 
the wall.






After our in-class discussion:::
We have our concept.... Editing is not as complicated as we thought and at this point, we are trying to figure out logistical issues (like how do we get that much water and how do we safely loft the projector in the air without too much fear of someone knocking it over?). If need be, I would be willing to contact Bon Appetit and Physical Plant for the necessary supplies. This is a group effort and Chrissy and I's part is difficult to continue, since it was hammered out pretty quickly after the two productive conversations that Nemesis and Ryan and I had. We are playing with the idea of running the color onto the ground since we have to shoot from a high vantage point, anyway...