Post Production - Mediated Sculpture

One Block, Many Forms

For this assignment our group came up with the concept of creating some form of building in which we could see peoples daily lives through windows. This soon developed into the idea of creating six different buildings with each being from a different time in history. We show a journey from a stone block building to a modern, all-glass building. We were inspired a lot from the EVOL Building’s Series where he transforms walls or street furniture into miniature buildings through stencils. We have done this through the projection. The buildings all age in a different ways before transforming into the next building. The website CGTextures is where we found a majority of the images we have used to form the building fronts and the decays on the buildings.

Our group process was very simple when it came to creating the footage needed for the projection. We all each had different roles. My role was to help Bec find the different building fronts, decays, doors etc, as well as learning how to use the program VDMX5. I had to role of mapping the footage to our chosen environment when we were setting up for filming. We had originally planned to have the ground animated along with the block, however the footpath was too dark and we could not get the layer mask to work. This was the only major issue we had when it came to our footage. We did do one test projection near the beginning of the assignment, where we realized that our idea would be possible.

Altogether I am very happy in how the final projection turned out. As a group I feel we all worked very well together and it ended up being a rather fun assignment to do. We have managed to turn a plain concrete block into it’s own building structure history.

Renee Warner - One Block Many Forms