Bunker videos experiment

I decided to use some of the new footage collected at the old bunker to project onto my set up. I used the set up of having the chair facing away from the viewer and the TV facing outwards, there's just something a bit more voyeuristic about that layout.
Here are a couple of teaser style videos of each set up:



This was made using the video of walking around the bunker itself. I don't think this video worked at all well in the installation as there was a constant spot of light for most of the video, which gave it a bit of a stagnant feel, the only thing really illuminated was the TV and most of the time this was just white light. Although I do love the shot of the arm of the chair as it looms out of the darkness!



I've started to refer to this video as The Skylight, I didn't really have much hope for it working with the installation set up and it doesn't really, again because it's a very static shot and this just doesn't cast light and play with the shapes in the furniture the way I want, but I did like lining the piece of open sky up with the TV. I think there's something interesting about projecting onto a TV screen. It would be great to have the TV on showing static at some point in the installation.
So it seems I need to go out and collect some more footage, at least now I feel I'm getting a much better idea of what shots will and won't work in the installation.

Experiment 2

So I have a TV now and I did a little experiment of my installation idea with both the chair and the TV, so my set up now resembles a very basic bedsit type living room. Already with just the addition of a TV, the set up looks a lot more natural. Although I had to make do with a plinth on its side as a make shift coffee table for the TV.
Here's a little teaser trailer type video:



As usual I got distracted from just documentational filming and just filmed little bits and pieces

Bunker Explore

Decided to go on a little explore the other day to a place a friend suggested, which was the kind of place I hadn't really thought about because I usually like large sites to explore. This was a WW2 Signal Post that we found somewhere near Hertford, it was actually a really cool space, if a bit small! I'd be interested to go back there and maybe try to project some things into it and play around in the space.
I took some initial videos with the idea to use them in my dead space/ living space set ups, which I haven't tested yet!




So anyway, it was good to have a little explore, I'm planning many more!

Dead Space/ Living Space

So I've started experimenting with what I think will be my project for this year. I'm looking at the idea of dead space and living space and the effect of layering these onto one another. At the moment I'm experimenting with projecting my videos of abandoned spaces onto a set up of a living room I am creating, although I have very few pieces of furniture at the moment! This initial video shows little quick glimpses of a chair being projected onto in various positions in a room as I try out different set ups and views. I was experimenting with the chair's placement within the room and trying to get it to feel natural, living I guess. I was also looking at what type of shot worked best with the chair, for instance a still shot or a moving shot. I decided in the end that the shots where the actual camera moved worked best, the chair appeared to become more lost in the scene and the whole effect was more disorientating.