Showreel of Tests

This is a quick showreel of tests from my years work in preparation for my final assessment on 20110616 at the Bartlett School of Architecture

Diagrams

The Cubicles

To realise and place some form of rationale on the feasibility of these experiential spaces each user has access to a interactive booth. Within these booths they will be placed within a multimedia environment. The idea is that each wall of the cubicle will act as visual screens in order to simulate the space in which each user wishes to be within.

The key parameter in this process is that the user will essentially remain stationery and the booth will move around the user. If the user chooses to travel from one space to the next that space will be connected the current space and the user will travel between the two. This can occur continuously. Each time the user enters a new space, the new space is represented on the media screens.

The Metaphysical Cubicles

Opposed to the narrative based realisation of the cubicles that The Man finds himself in there is a parallel system in which the cubicles operates within.

As already mentioned there is the infrastructure in place which means the physical versions of these film set components can be transported and put in place for each user in time for them to physically walk and transist between one space and the next.

Props

Each object that finds its way into the scenes and shots are carefully selected to maximise visual effect and also maximise costs for production. These two images are two shots that group together various moderist furniture. The choice of these was made on the premise that everything that the Case Study Houses stood for in terms of modern living greatly influenced furniture design and industrial design when it came to procuring the houses themselves.

Inhabited Canyon

On 'Jed's' journey he ventures into the deep canyons created by the multiple Centre Points. As he explores further it becomes apparent to him that only what he sees is actually constructed. Finding himself to the rear of the film set unveils that all the buildings are only partially constructed.

Following his nose he ascends into the skyscrapers to find that the spaces within these high rise studio constructions are actually inhabited. The internal organs of these buildings have functions and facilitate studio upon studio that are either the remanence of past film productions or studios in full use.

Backstage

The rear of the film studio shows how the panels of Oxford Circus are simply made of timber panels with the fronts painted by matte painters. They are hung from mobile hoists which enable the production crew to fully erect the large scale matte panels.