Dean Gransar
the fleeting moment glass
an interactive camera is a device that combines the process of searching, creating, and capturing; thus bluring the line between post and pre production.
The most beautiful things in nature happen randomly; so is the experience of artists and art creation random in a way that happens. The only thing that artist knows is willingness to create art. The rest unfolds as the artist moves starts the process. While I assume that a professional camera crew know what they want capture for me the process of shooting the video is daunting -- partially not knowing what is useful when shooting and the long process of transferring reexamining the video in the lab. Therefore I am thinking of an interactive camera that gives best of the both worlds: Preproduction and post-production.
In my project, the fleeting moment glass, I would like present a moment in time inside of the camera screen that we can interact with. Currently the camera screen displays what is now being captured and representing the quality as accurately as possible. I am thinking of an interactive in which the little screen gets priority. Therefore, A) increase the screen to six inches in order to give the user a better experience and B) add effects to the recorded material and present them to via the screen. While this effects are not being recorded, they influence the way we capture video. One such effect is displaying images from the previously recorded material, which creates the moment of tension.
These are a couple of ways to change camera from a dull device it is to a vibrant one. Increasing the screen will change the nature of the camera as a transitory device for passing information to a screen, to an output itself. And adding different effects will shows a different way of seeing the world which is what the editor does while manipulating the data in the studio, while recording is taking place. This is no longer a camera, but a tool to examine the world like a modern magnifying glass or kaleidoscope. Camera can also be a assistive device if it is creating a safe window from which one can see the world while providing a degree of safety and it could furthermore be used to reiterate something that has taken place.
Since this project is mobile I don't need a particular space for the show.
I would like to find out the following:
What effects are good help the user...
Should there be an option to record with the effects...
Would this be a toy or a new camera...
What are the implications of this to post-production (especially editing).
Youth,
film makers,
assistive technology experts
An idea user scenario is visitors asking a me what it is Im holding and what it does. I can have a sight that says \"ask me about my project\". I hand the camera to them and will walk with them as they see everything through it and capture fantastic footage/images of the show or thier friends. It would be interesting to see how different projects and people look like.
backpack houses the laptop (with max/msp) and batteries which are connected to a six inch screen with an isight mounted on the top.
In my project, the fleeting moment glass, I would like present a moment in time inside of the camera screen that we can interact with. Currently the camera screen displays what is now being captured and representing the quality as accurately as possible. I am thinking of an interactive in which the little screen gets priority. Therefore, A) increase the screen to six inches in order to give the user a better experience and B) add effects to the recorded material and present them to via the screen. While this effects are not being recorded, they influence the way we capture video. One such effect is displaying images from the previously recorded material, which creates the moment of tension.
These are a couple of ways to change camera from a dull device it is to a vibrant one. Increasing the screen will change the nature of the camera as a transitory device for passing information to a screen, to an output itself. And adding different effects will shows a different way of seeing the world which is what the editor does while manipulating the data in the studio, while recording is taking place. This is no longer a camera, but a tool to examine the world like a modern magnifying glass or kaleidoscope. Camera can also be a assistive device if it is creating a safe window from which one can see the world while providing a degree of safety and it could furthermore be used to reiterate something that has taken place.
Since this project is mobile I don't need a particular space for the show.
I would like to find out the following:
What effects are good help the user...
Should there be an option to record with the effects...
Would this be a toy or a new camera...
What are the implications of this to post-production (especially editing).
Youth,
film makers,
assistive technology experts
An idea user scenario is visitors asking a me what it is Im holding and what it does. I can have a sight that says \"ask me about my project\". I hand the camera to them and will walk with them as they see everything through it and capture fantastic footage/images of the show or thier friends. It would be interesting to see how different projects and people look like.
backpack houses the laptop (with max/msp) and batteries which are connected to a six inch screen with an isight mounted on the top.