Unit 35 Installation Production Booklet

Unit 35: Video Installation

Installation Production Booklet

Name: Jack, Pat and Dan

Order of contents (italics show areas you must add

in yourself)

Mind-mapping
Past and current video installation practice
Installation plans
Sketches on the content of your animation
Draft script of the animation
Installation / set skecthes
Progress of ideas
Types of visuals
Sound design
Lighting design
Projection vs screen
Single or multiple screens
Technological convergence
Possible venues
Location recce
Identify venue facilities
Risk assessment of venue
Final script
Storyboard
Cast and Crew and Production roles
Production schedule
Copyright issues
Venue booking confirmation
Risk assessment of installation

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Mindmap of ideas for your installation

Create a mindmap showing ideas of how you might install your video.
Define what type(s) of visuals you will use.
(Eg. video cameras, still cameras, hand crafted artwork, film, animation, digital technologies)

Red carpet up
to the laptop

One person
room

Mini
cinema

Dimmed
lighting

popco
rn

Netflix
style
My
installation
5 to 6 different
screens playing
different short
films

Interactive
powerpoint where
you choose which
film you want to
watch
Small projector
screen on back
wall

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Past and current video installation practice

From your research into video installation, give two examples that you think influence your work / ideas
in some way.
One should be a past practitioner, the other should be contemporary.
Past Practitioner
Name:
Volume', Installation by United Visual Artists and One Point
Six
Biography

A luminous interactive installation has transformed the V&As

john madejski garden. Volume is a sculpture of light and
sound an array of lights columns positioned dramatically in
the garden

Images

Notes on their installation

Poles of lights located in the madejski garden to show off
volume

UVAs large-scale installation Volume first appeared in the

garden of Londons V&A museum in 2006 and has since
traveled as far as Hong Kong, Taiwan, St. Petersburg and
Melbourne.
It consists of a field of 48 luminous, sound-emitting columns
that respond to movement. Visitors weave a path through
the sculpture, creating their own unique journey in light and
music.
The result of a collaboration with Massive
Attack, Volume won the D&AD Yellow Pencil in 2007 for
Outstanding Achievement in the Digital Installation category.

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How is it similar to your ideas?

This isnt very similar to our idea it just looks cool

Contemporary Practitioner
Name:
Janet cardiff and george bures miller
Biography
Janet Cardiff is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and
sound installations; especially a form she calls audio walks. She works
in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller.
Cardiff and Miller currently live and work in Berlin. Janet Cardiff first
gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in
1995

Images

Notes on their installation

Its a box set up like a small cinema. The idea of there
instiliattion was to recreate the experience of a real cinema
despite only two people being sat there.

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How is it similar to your ideas?

We want to set up a box like object to put a screen in and
make it feel like a small cinema a bit like this. We want to use
perspective to make the audiecnce feel immersed within the
installation

Installation / set sketches

Draw a series of thumbnail sketches showing ideas for your installation. Add labels to your diagrams to
identify equipment, where the image will be seen, where the audience will stand etc.

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Sound design
What sound will your FMP / Productions have?

The sound of the short film

Will you use headphones or speakers for this sound?

headphones

Why?
So that they can focus on the sound of the production and wont get distracted by anything else
happening in the room

Projection vs screen
Will you project your video or play it on a screen?
Be played on projection

Why?

We will be able to get a bigger

projection and it will look like
a cinema

If you are using a screen,

will you use a single
screen, or multiple
screens?

Single projection

If you are projecting

what will you project
ONTO? (ie fabric, screen,
materials etc)

Mdf

How will that change how

your audience READS
your animation?

It means the audience will

only be focused on one
thing

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Technological convergence
What is technological convergence?
Technological convergence is the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards
performing similar tasks

Will you be using this in your installation?

no

Explain your answer.

Because I will not be changing any of the footage I am using to suit the way my instiliation will work.

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Venues
Locate and show research into three possible venues for you to show your work.
Venue:

Red lion

Location:
Henley-On-Thames
Positive aspects of this venue:
1. Easy
2. Open space
3. Well known

Negative aspects of this venue:

1. small venue

2. next to a main road

3. Not a lot of parking

Venue:

The firestation

Location:

Henley on thames

Positive aspects of this venue:

1. Close to the college

2. Open space

3. Easy access

Negative aspects of this venue:

1. Not a lot of parking

2. People may be unaware as to where it is.

3. Next to a main road

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Venue:

Henley college

Location:

Main hall. Rotherfield

Positive aspects of this venue:

1. Open space

2. Everyone knows where it is

3. Big area

Negative aspects of this venue:

1. Hard of viewers to get to

2. Isnt open to the public

3. Not a lot of parking

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Location recce
Complete the location recce for the final venue.

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Risk assessment of venue

Complete risk assessment for the VENUE

RISK ASSESSMENT
ACTIVITY

HAZARD

RISK
H/M/L

projector

Could fall

wood

Could fall

staples

Could injure
someone
Could fall

Could
electricute
someone

curtains
wires

PRECAUTIONS

Make it
secure
Make them
secure
Make sure
theyre safe
Make them
secure
Keep at the
edges and
away form
water

IN PLACE

REVIEW
DATE

REVIEWER

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
yes

Please leave this section blank:

Risk Assessment checked by: Name ..
. Date

Signed

KEY:
Activity :
Describe the component part of your pursuit.
Hazard : List the things you anticipate might cause harm or the things associated with your
activity that have the potential to cause harm. Consider the likely harm.
Risk:
Assess the risk as either H (High), M (Medium) or L (Low). When concluding your
assessment consider all of the circumstances.
Precautions:
Consider what you could do to minimise / negate the risk.
In Place: Will the precautionary measures be in place at the time of the activity?
Review Date:
When would it be reasonable to review your assessment? Remember it might
be whilst you are undertaking the activity.
Reviewer: Name of the person responsible for completing the risk assessment.
A copy of this form should be taken on the activity or visit by the Reviewer.

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Installation plans
From the ideas in your mindmap, create a more definite proposal for how you will install your video.
Diagram of final plan:
Add labels to clearly identify your diagram

List the equipment you will need:

A tv monitor
A projector
A chair
Wood
Red and black material

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How have the following influenced your ideas?

work of the artists you have researched

We have used inspiration on

keeping the area small and and
the walls getting closer to the
projections wall

venue and facilites

We have a small area to work with

so we have focused on keeping
the location small

lighting

sound

Making sure that the sound is easy

to hear from all areas of the box

screens / projectors

Thought about how close the

projecter will need to be so that we
can make the videos clear

speakers / headphones

Make sure they are of high quality

and make sure that you cant hear
anything else in the venue

We want to black it out so that the

production can be the main focus

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Cast and Crew and Production roles

Research into each role. Define what they do, what skills they need to accomplish their task and who
will be completing the taks in your animation.

Director
Describe their job.
Is in charge of the production. He gets to control what everyone does, and makes sure it runs
smoothly.

What skills do they need to do their job well?

They need to be authoritative and demanding. They need to be able to get on with everyone
and give clear instructions of what they want to be done.

Who will be completing this task in your animation?

Producer
Describe their job.
The producer is the one in charge of the location (red lion)

What skills do they need to do their job well?

Who will be completing this task in your animation?

Set builder
Describe their job.
This person will be the one who has to build our set. This includes making the box which our
mini cinema will be based
What skills do they need to do their job well?
They need to be good with building things, especially

Who will be completing this task in your animation?

Jack, Dan and Pat.

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Venue booking confirmation