This assignment has been a interesting project as I learned a lot. I learned the basics of how to use arduino, I now feel a lot more comfortable using it as a tool. This project also pushed my Max/Msp knowledge.

Conceptually this project has been challenging with my initial idea being too complected to implement. At this point I had to rethink some things and take a new approach to my assignment.

Overall this assignment has made me realize the elaborate nature of VJ. Also the project has made me appreciate VJ more.

Here is the video of my documentation.

Documentation for project 2 305 from Tom Revill on Vimeo.

Here is the video of my presentation.

Presentation Project 2 305 from Tom Revill on Vimeo.

Images of the filming process

Images of visual.

Image My Final Max Patch

This what still have to do by 3 tomorrow.

• Edit footage together.
• Fix Max Patch – video switching.
• Fix soldering – to help improving signal.
• Find Sounds.
• Buy Hobby box for wiring.
• re-export all movies.

will put more pictures tomorrow.

Work In progress controller

Work In progress controller

Work In progress Max/Msp

305 Project 2 Test from Tom Revill on Vimeo.

footage.

The Buttons will have 2 buttons where you can select footage in a linear fashion and 2 other buttons operate a random chances of getting another clip.

Also I could not find a joystick so i ended up buying a game pad from the Nintendo NES period. I am currently reverse engineering the game pad which I am got to finish tomorrow. I also paln to get some game footage tomorrow.

Also I did a arduino test today and which was a success.

More to come tomorrow

Inside the Game Pad

Inside the Game Pad reverse

Here is my concept presentation

However I am rethinking  what my visuals are will be but i hope to have the the visual done by the end of this week and the controller done by the Thursday the next week.

http://tomrevill.net/files/therory305.pdf

One idea i had was to have two game controllers that have are cutting together a piece of war footage and depending on who did the most cutting that would be the winner.

Generally  I want a vj device that the audience them selves are the editors.

The purpose of this assignment was to retell a story from “The Wellington City and Sea Museum” with in the last century.

I chose the year 1982 the year in which Wellington became nuclear free city. The way in which i chose to retell the story was by having a interactive slide show which would be be able to be manipulated by a an atom molecule model.

The interactive slide show has images that tell the story of by showing pictures from the time. Also the slide show will look like a retro television set.

And reflect the cause (the nuclear powered USS Truxton) and effect (the protesters) of this issue.

How it works  

By picking up the atom and moving it around the atom in turn this changes the image on screen. There are two different outcomes when playing with this composition. Either you get images of the USS Truxton or get the images of the protesters.When the atom is not being played with the composition will revert to a television static.

Reflections

Reflecting back to the start of this assignment i my idea has evolved since the start. But to talk about my assessment as a whole would make this blog post hard to understand. So I have broken my assignment into three categories.

Electronics

This part of the assignment was fairly easy but very quite time consuming. Also I found electronics to be quite fun and interesting.

Interface

Originally i waned to look at making the interface out of Perspex but i found out is very tricky to use and cumbersome. From there i used wood which was alot easer to use. also I fond out that collecting materials is allot harder to find.

Quartz Composition

After some studying up on this program i found Quartz to not be as complex as MAX/MSP. However I found it to be allot harder to find help on the internet. also finding photos was actually easer than i originally thought .

Interface.