Unit 35 Installation Production Booklet

Unit 35: Video Installation

Installation Production Booklet

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Order of contents (italics show areas you must add in yourself)

Mind-mapping
Installation plans
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
Copyright issues
Venue booking confirmation
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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)

4 TV's all displaying

different short films at once

Project the short films onto

a white screen surrounded
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by things that have to do
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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.
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Sound design

What sound will your Productions have?

Only sound will be from the short films there will be no other sounds this is to create the effect that
youre sat in a cinema watching the short films.

Will you use headphones or speakers for this sound?

We will be using speakers so that up to four people can watch the short films at one time.

Why?

We decided to use a surround sound system to create a cinematic effect that can be shared with up to 4
people

Lighting design

What lighting will you have in your installation? Consider health and safety.
No lights apart from projector this is to create the idea that youre sat in a dark cinema

Sketch out your lighting plans for the installation.

We will have individual spot lights on the ceiling of

the instillation so that it gives the viewer the same
effect as if they were sat in the cinema watching a
film
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Projection vs screen

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

Projector onto screen

Why? If you are using a screen, will you

use a single screen, or multiple
screens?

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cinema to the ones used in a cinema
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Technological convergence

What is technological convergence?

When things come together, video with sculpture, incorporating YouTube to installation, when technology helps
things work together

Will you be using this in your installation?

no

Explain your answer.

There will be no technology that brings the instillation together, this is because we are simply using a projector to project
the short films onto a screen, there will be no use of YouTube as the file has been exported separately from Premier Pro.
 Venue booking confirmation

Add the booking confirmation from the venue here:

Venues:

Venue: Red Lion Hotel

Location:

Positives of the Popular communal location for tourists, likely to receive many visits.
venue

Negatives of the Staff and visitors may be inconveniences due to the smaller size of the
venue location.

Venue: River and Rowing Museum

Location: Riverfront park

Positives of the venue Large and versatile space with plenty of open areas for displays.

Negatives of the Potentially expensive hiring cost, unlikely to be available due to

venue popularity.

Venue info:

Venue: Old Fire Station Gallery

Location: Town Centre

Positives of the Open and brightly lit display area, close proximity to town centre and
venue college.
Negatives of the Small scale display areas per student.
venue

Location Recce:

Location images: Location Name: The Old Firestation gallery

Address: West St, Henley RG9 2ED

Number of floors: 1

Contact Name: The Henley Council

Phone: 01491 576982

1st Impressions: A small but open

exhibition area with a lot of
potential for display types.

Existing Lights: Plentiful indoors lighting

makes lighting a non-issue.

Ambient Light: Large windows above

supply natural lighting to most of the
exhibition room.

Parking: Parking directly outside of the

exhibition building.

Close Police? Yes

Hospital? Yes
Restrooms? Yes

Heating: Standard indoor heaters within

main exhibition room.
Interior - A/C: Yes
Power Supply: Readily available indoor sockets +
extension cables Sound problems?
No obvious sound issues and most
Exterior - exhibitions will be using
Style: Contemporary, safe neighbourhood headphones for audio playback.

Number of Windows: 3 (2 covering entire

walls/roofs)
Number of Doors: 2

Risk Assessment:

Activity Hazard Risk Precautions Location Review Reviewer

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Projector Potential Low Cool environment Indoors

Overheating
 Large Cramped Space Low Easy access to potential Indoors
Audience exits

Risk Assessment checked by: Name: Date:

Signed

Installation Plans:

Due to the small space of our display, were working with a rather constrained environment
consisting of a single projector, a small seating arrangement, and speaker setup.

Equipment List:

Equipment List:

Equipment:
o Projector
o 4 chairs
o 2 speakers
o Projector screen
General Supplies:
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Influences:

Work of the artists Many of the artist weve researched have made the most of their
you have environments, and focused primarily on immersion and high-quality
researched presentation.

Venue and facilities Being a rather small venue, much of the planning was built around the
venue, creating a compact presentation area.

Lighting The darker nature of the small enclosed room well be using helps a lot in
both clarity of projection and the overall presentation. It also allows us to
experiment with the way we do lighting.

Sound The small space helps to make the most of even cheaper speakers.

Screens / Projectors The larger projector screen well be using helps a lot in bringing focus to
the films rather than the environment

Copyright Issues:

What potential copyright issues could your installation infringe?

Whilst most of the installation videos are original content, many of them use licensed
music or stories. The short film Voodoo as an example features prominently both
concepts from the Deathnote series of books, as well as music from the same series.

How can you be certain that the work you are displaying does not violate any copyright
infringements?
As students our work falls under basic creative commons rights and as independent,
small scale, non-profit based projects these fall under the Fair Use Doctrine.

Venue Booking information:

Analysis:

Whilst our presentation is far from flashy, it is both clear and focused on the works presented - an eclectic
and stylistic mixture of short-films means that it was difficult to present them in any way specific to any of
the productions, as such our video installation is specifically designed to not infringe on any of the
thematic or narrative elements of each piece - rather placing the focus as much as possible on the
screening of the short films, similar to that of a cinema.

The theming of the whole presentation is designed to replicate that of a small cinema screening, so as to
bring the short-films to an almost campy level of replication for what are mostly smaller productions
designed to replicate similar yet much larger hollywood productions.
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