Wednesday, 20 January 2010

IDAT211 - Idea 1 - Timescale

So my 1st idea i want to talk about is the timescale of Plymouth.

Im calling it a timescale, but thats for lack of a better word. Im not 100% on the name of this technique.

What i would do is, set up a camera somewhere either in my house or in the university. I would then hook that camera up to a computer and constantly record over 3 days. This would then capture the earth moving. I would then edit all of this footage together with a appropriate sound track behind it. This footage would then be sped up to fit in a 60 second video.

I belive that this footage, combined with the dome would create a pretty impressive video.

After deciding on this to be my main idea i tried to implement this idea over christmas. Then the problems started, the main problem was finding a location which would capture nothing but the sky. The other problem was that when i finally found this location, i couldn't get the camera to record straight to a laptop hard drive.

These problems soon put an end to this idea.