1 - Reflexive Design - Re-presenting Reality

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Brief.

"Produce a short film for the IVT, which encapsulates an interpretation, or explores an aspect of perception and representation. We have primarily focused on visual perception, but you are welcome to consider all elements within the perceptual field. Through the lecture series you should develop an understanding of theoretical foundations of perceptual development and capacity - particularly those relating to the embodiment in perception: biological, physical, cultural, social, and environmental factors, which are active in visual processes."

IVT- Immersive Vision Theatre was origionally a Planetarium (built in 1967),  it has now been developed into a 40 seat Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT). It is an instrument for displaying imaginary worlds in an immersive environment. The dome uses a fish eye lense to wrap video round the edges of the domes surface to create the visual capability of filling your whole perceptive view with the visualisations created and projected. When your whole perception is taken over with these videos you become part of its world, the visualisation becomes your environment.


Here an example of a video created for Domefest 2008. This video uses vibrant colouration on a black background, creating a very effective visualisation. This video is called Liquid / Light / Flow

I am quite the dreamer so for my IVT video i wanted to create something based on a dream, or dreams. weither it is a collective of dreams i have had or dreams others have had or a dream i have had i am not yet sure. but of course in order to get into my dream world i would need to fall asleep... so first step is the sleping animation.

This is the eye i created in order to create the falling assleep effect, i have coloured the two sections differently in order to show the two parts.the idea is, the domes contain the camera, the camera looks out through the gap. the eye will close partially, then open a little, then close  a little more, then open a little then close completely.simulating a gradual fall to sleep over around 7 seconds. during which i will show the title of my piece.

Bellow: this is a clip of what the outcome is from blender, i will now need to put it through aftereffects, greenscreen in an image of my room from the view of my bed, and add some motion blurr.

Here are the keyframes i used to create the blurr  effect.

Here is the intro to the video without the title sequence