Unit 35: Video Installation Installation Production Booklet · Unit 35 Installation Production Booklet Contemporary Practitioner Name: Douglas Gordon Biography Scottish artist, mainly

Unit 35 Installation Production Booklet

Unit 35: Video Installation

Installation Production Booklet

Name: Daisy Kemp

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


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)


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: Vito Acconci

Biography Vito Acconci is a landscape architect and installation artist. His

installations and art landscapes can be found displayed all around the

world in a variety of different ways most in a non narrative form as

Acconci is very abstract with his work and likes to leave the audience

guessing.

Images

Notes on their installation Very abstract. Does many of his works from a point of view shot.

How is it similar to your ideas? Showing angles from a POV shot.


Contemporary Practitioner

Name: Douglas Gordon

Biography Scottish artist, mainly based in the video art and photography field. He’s

the creator of the well known 24 hour Psycho (1993) that involved

slowing down Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, so it lasts 24 hours, on a

repeated loop. His installations have been in art museums all around the

world like The Museum of Modern Art and TATE Modern.

Images

Notes on their installation Likes to use a whole room with big screens.

How is it similar to your ideas? With ‘Play Dead, Real Time’ he has the camera at floor level and so on level with the main characters


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.


Sound design

What sound will your animation have? Mumbling noises and voices at times, very simple scripting.

Will you use headphones or speakers for this sound? Headphones

Why? It’s a secret world that no ones meant to know about so with the animation being played in a slightly hidden place I was it to seem like the audience are eavesdropping on the characters of my animation.

Lighting design What lighting will you have in your installation? Consider health and safety. Very dim lighting, fairy lights surrounding the screen and surrounding area.

Sketch out your lighting plans for the installation.


Projection vs screen

Will you project your video or play it on a screen? Play it on a small screen.

If you are using a screen, will you use a single screen, or multiple screens?

Single.

Why?

To keep the viewing very intimate and

keep that secretive feeling around.

If you are projecting… what will you project ONTO? (ie fabric, screen, materials etc)

How will that change how your audience READS your animation? It will make the whole thing feel very secretive and like the audience are in on the secret.


Technological convergence

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

Will you be using this in your installation? No

Explain your answer. I’m only going to use a screen in order to keep it all very simplistic and quiet.


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

Venue: Henley Town Hall

Location: Henley on Thames

Positive aspects of this venue: 1. Big halls 2. Easy to find 3. Good lighting

Negative aspects of this venue: 1. Big halls could possibly be echoey 2. Slippery floors 3. Possibly too much lighting concluding in sun reflecting on the screens.

Venue: Harpsden Villge Hall


Positive aspects of this venue: 1.Huge space 2.Multiple rooms 3.Includes parking and other facilities needed for viewers.

Negative aspects of this venue: 1. Could be complicated to get to for some people. 2. Big halls could possibly be echoey 3. Big empty hall equals to nowhere to hide wires or any other equiptment that may cause hazards but are needed for any installations.

Venue: Margaret Day Building



Positive aspects of this venue: 1. Spacious 2. Interesting room 3.Good lighting

Negative aspects of this venue: 1.Low beams 2.Uneven floor 3.Splintering wood


Location recce Complete the location recce for the final venue.


Risk assessment of venue Complete risk assessment for the VENUE

ACTIVITY HAZARD RISK

H/M/L PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE REVIEW

DATE REVIEWER

Walking around

Walking around

Low Beams

Uneven floor

H

M

Warning viewers about the low beams and making sure they’re very visable.

Pre-warning others and trying to avoid potentionally dangerous areas of flooring.

Please leave this section blank: Risk Assessment checked by: Name ………………………………………………….. Signed …………………………………………………. Date ……………………

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.

RISK ASSESSMENT


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: Small TV screen/moniter, spotlight (to be above the screen)


How have the following influenced your ideas?

□ work of the artists you have researched The thought of the work coming from the point of view of the main characters.

□ venue and facilites Knowing there were going to be quite a few different installtions being played in the room at the same time I wanted to make mine quite simple and small being able to hide away to add to the secretive effect.

□ lighting I wanted to keep the lighting very simple and less elaborate than maybe some of the other installations due to my animation being a ‘secret’.

□ Sound -

□ screens / projectors Because my animation is all filmed on location and on floor level – with the toys – I wanted to keep that with the screens. Which is why’ve I decided to screen it on a small tv/computer screen at ground level to make the audience feel part of the madness.

□ speakers / headphones Due to my animation being thought of of a ‘secret’ I wanted to keep my sound also very hidden and private. I decided to project the sound through headphones instead of speakers because I wanted to make it feel like the audience were on on the secret and were listening in on something they shouldn’t be hearing.


Storyboard Insert your storyboard in here


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.

Directs the whole production.

What skills do they need to do their job well?

Good leadership, concentration, team work.

Who will be completing this task in your animation? Myself

Producer

Describe their job.

In charge of any managerial aspects of a production.

What skills do they need to do their job well? They need to be able to take charge, listen to the rest of the crew for any problems that may occur and be able to sort out any of those problems promptly.

Who will be completing this task in your animation? Myself

Model Maker

Describe their job. In charge of creating the models needed for the animation.

What skills do they need to do their job well? Concentration, paitence, artistic skills.

Who will be completing this task in your animation? Not creating models for my animation and therefore will not need someone to do this for me.

Set builder

Describe their job.

Creating the sets and props needed for the filming of the animation.


Concentration, paitence, artistic skills.

Who will be completing this task in your animation? Using a location insead of sets and so will not be neeing a set builder.


Storyboard artist

Describe their job. In charge of creating the rough sketches of what the animation will ultimately look like by the end of filming.


Artistic Skills.

Who will be completing this task in your animation? Myself.

Stills Photographer

Describe their job. In charge of taking the still pictures which will eventually add up to tbe the full animation.


Paitence, concentration, be able to work in a team.


Lighting Director

Describe their job. In charge of changing the lighting when needed to fit the correct scenes.


Concentration – in order to keep the lighting constant and change it up when needed to, team work.



Production schedule Complete the production schedule for your animation. Complete one for each day of filming.

Time Scene Shot

Description Location Characters Art

dept/props Costumes Notes

Day 1 18:00

1 Walking and table shots

Kitchen Snappy Bag -

Day 2 18:00

2 Kitchen floor shots

Kitchen Snappy Todd (the sloth)

- -

Day 3 18:00

3

Living room shots

Living room

Snappy Todd All the other toys

- -


Copyright issues

What potential copyright issues could your animation infringe? If I included any sounds or if any of my models were similar in anyway to characters already created.

How can you be certain that your work does not violate any copyright infringements? Because I haven’t created any of my characters (i.e. out of modelling clay) therefore I haven’t taken anyone elses ideas and put them into my own animation.

Venue booking confirmation

Add the booking confirmation from the venue here:


Risk assessment of installation Complete a risk assessment for the INSTALLATION

ACTIVITY HAZARD RISK

H/M/L PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE REVIEW

DATE REVIEWER

Walking around the room

Cables and wires

M

Make sure they’re hidden and tucked away.

Please leave this section blank: Risk Assessment checked by: Name ………………………………………………….. Signed …………………………………………………. Date ……………………

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.

RISK ASSESSMENT

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Unit 35: Video Installation Installation Production Booklet · Unit 35 Installation Production Booklet Contemporary Practitioner Name: Douglas Gordon Biography Scottish artist, mainly