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Music sketchpad

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:22:08 +0000

Music composition ideas and sketches

Made In Brunel

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:27:43 +0000

madeinbrunel.com

BSc Final Major Project

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:41:00 +0000

Data Representation in Hyper-Realistic, Immersive Multimedia Environments

An in-depth investigative study into immersive multimedia and hyper-realty, including research into the use of technologies including binaural stereo sound, stereoscopic imaging and head-tracking, for the purpose of realtime 3D data representation.

The project resulted in the construction of a prototype multmedia environment. Major elements to the prototype development included experiments with binaural sound capture and reproduction, custom built electronics for head-tracking devices, and complex programming in the Pure Data environment. The result was an environment designed to alow users to experience sound visuals which appear to be all around them and coming from different directions, which immerses the user in a 3D environment in which data could be represented.

The project was very well recieved within the university academic community, and amongst industry professionals attending exhibits of the project at the Brunel University and at the Made In Brunel | 08 design show in Islington.

The project was nominated for the HSBC Innovation Award at Made in Brunel, and was the winner of the Microsoft Award for the Best Final Year Project in BSc Multimedia Technology and Design at Brunel University. The work was also mentioned in an article, “Young At Heart“, published in the science magazine Eureka, in September 2008.

Dockland Beauty

admin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:56:58 +0000

A short film depicting the plight of Julia, inprisoned be her former lover in a dark, empty dockyard warehouse. The film was written by starring actor, Cory Willmott, who plays Simon/Hyde, and also stars Fay Hamlett as Julia.

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Production photographs

Viewfinder Gallery

admin — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:22:09 +0000

viewfindergallery.com

A website designed and developed for photographer, Simon Willmott.

Light Sabre Soundboard

admin — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:36:35 +0000

This soundboard was used as a live effects bank for a pantomime that featured live action with realistic light sabres. The effects were fired in real time during the performance.

Lapse

admin — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:56:22 +0000

A short film depicting the strange world of time-obsessed student, Phil, on his way to morning lectures at Brunel University. The film, starring Cory Willmott, was a joint project made with Marc McGinley, Liz Sandon and Vince De La Cruz.

It is also worth noting that the same lecture centre featured in Lapse was used to shoot some scenes for the film, ‘A Clockwork Orange’.

Drive For Life

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:01:44 +0000

This film explored the use of alternative narrative strucure to depict two parallel stories involving the same group of characters, and carries a message of road safety.

Video Feedback

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:34:54 +0000

Live social experiments based on the accidental discovery of video feedback. This feedback happens when a video camera is recording an image of what it is seeing and a loop is created - rather like a digital moving image version of two mirrors facing eachother. Colourful and intricate patterns can be created if the setup is correct, and users can interact with the image to create different patterns. A video feedback loop was set up at a party, and it was interesting to observe the guests’ interaction with the moving images projected on the screen.

The Vein of an Urban Organism

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:40:52 +0000

This experimental artwork film was designed to find some ordered patterns in a seemingly chaotic British urban environment. A vehicle navigates an urban network of roads using a set of rules, rather than intedning to reach a specific destination. These rules dictate that a traveller must alternate between left and right hand turns at each signposted junction, otherwise they keep going straight on.

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