Dan finished the codex audio this past week. It sounds great. I've been trying to figure out what kind of video to make to accompany it. My first thought was to piece together images and film clips... something like the video equivalent of the audio. However, there are some images I want to create that just don't make sense in this content--like an animation of how the spinner mechanism works. Where would you find an image like that? It doesn't make sense. I need the ability to create images/animations that aren't found in the real world.
Some alternatives: make something like a stop motion grid in which Ben places x's in the right place according to a code. When filmed in sequence, we would see an animation. Another idea is to create a primitive computer on which we see something like an ASCII animation on a low-res screen. The idea is that Ben would be inputing Basic DATA statements or hexadecimals or something and then we would see the animation spring to life. Another idea is to make a giant wheel. It would sort of be like a big phonograph record with both the video and audio data. The wheel would spin slowly playing the audio and displaying images in sequence.
Tonight Erik came over and we shot two short pick up shots. One shot was of the "stars" falling. Easy, if you don't count last week when we shot it and it didn't work because you couldn't see the stars. The other was harder--the spinner shaking and blowing steam from its center hole. We finally found a use for the Haze in a can. That's a Lowel Omni you see blasting through the hole along with the haze.
BTW Erik--my phone works. (I accidentally washed my cellphone last weekend. After drying it and recharging it, it's up and running. Amazing Motorola technology.)
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