After the shooting session that I had last week with the dancer, I finally made a video presentation of my project. The full length of the shooting was a 1 hour, so I had to select carefully the best sequences that I then inserted int he final version of the video. To do that I … Continue reading Video of the project
Category: Major Digital Project
This week I booked a shooting studio in the university for testing and filming my project. I positioned the iMac with the Kinect exactly as I am planning to do for the exhibition and I loaded my project on the iMac. The technician helped me with the lights and the camera. I invited in a … Continue reading Test with a dancer
As my project is designed to be used by an audience of professional dancers and choreographers I choose to create an interface that could recall the classic exterior aspect of the classical music and ballet. For this reason, I choose a Serif font called Playfair as my main typeface. This font is clearly inspired by … Continue reading Designing the Interface
In this figure, I summarise my plan for the exhibition. I will need: A Kinect; Speakers; A screen; A desk; An iMac with Processing; A printer; A carpet. I will position the screen to the wall and I will attach it to the computer. On the iMac, I will have to install Processing in order … Continue reading Exhibition plan
Now that I selected the music that I will use in my project, I have to work with them. I have to create the music score that I can use to produce my printed outcome. To generate the music score I found this program called Sibelius. It is an app that allows you to write … Continue reading Working with Music
I am planning to test my project with a dancer. To do so, I had to book a studio at the university in advance. In will also take advantage of this studio for shooting the dancer and so to make a video of the project. First of all, I ask the performer what kind of … Continue reading Research on Music
After my researches, I can finally start to design the actual experience. I chose to structure the program into a game with the following steps: Title Select the music Music selected Recognise person Start music and movement capture with Kinect Generate PDF Print dance score After the last step is done, the game will start … Continue reading Development of the experience