New Balance Sneaker
Art and Design Principles: The shoe came to life by lighting up in various ways. First we could see an outline forming the shoe on the shoe itself and then the background of the shoe lights up indifferent colours.
Elements of Design: An outline drawing of the shoe and the letter N projected on the shoe. At the end a grainy texture is applied depicting disco lights.
Formal Qualities: The surface chosen was an ideal one although any ambient light was then switched off making it perfect for the show. The music chosen went well with the shoe since it is hyped just as the visuals were.
Function: I think the message was clearly shown that the new sneakers can be worn in any scenario allowing you to have balance throughout.
Form: It is a three-dimensional visual with constant use of coloured backgrounds.
Elements of Design: An outline drawing of the shoe and the letter N projected on the shoe. At the end a grainy texture is applied depicting disco lights.
Formal Qualities: The surface chosen was an ideal one although any ambient light was then switched off making it perfect for the show. The music chosen went well with the shoe since it is hyped just as the visuals were.
Function: I think the message was clearly shown that the new sneakers can be worn in any scenario allowing you to have balance throughout.
Form: It is a three-dimensional visual with constant use of coloured backgrounds.
The Tourist in Dallas
Art and Design Principles: This is very well designed and mapped making it look very realistic. They are so well designed that when the visuals are cracked and broken, the audience might feel that the shattered building is falling onto them.
Elements of Design: Different types of columns, windows and illustrations are precisely drawn and projected. The checkerboard was also drawn according to the windows.
Formal Qualities: Tiles and windows were precisely projected so when transitions such as twisting and turning took place, the projection looked very realistic giving it the WOW factor. The sound was very well synchronized and very well chosen for each particular scene.
Function: The promotion of the movie was clearly shown by adding movie clips every now and then into the projection. The creator decided to give life to the building and not just display the movie clips.
Form: The three-dimensional projection fit perfectly on the symmetrical windows thus this allowed the creator to come up with various forms of visuals such as blocks, balls, metal cubes, columns and bricks amongst many other forms.
Elements of Design: Different types of columns, windows and illustrations are precisely drawn and projected. The checkerboard was also drawn according to the windows.
Formal Qualities: Tiles and windows were precisely projected so when transitions such as twisting and turning took place, the projection looked very realistic giving it the WOW factor. The sound was very well synchronized and very well chosen for each particular scene.
Function: The promotion of the movie was clearly shown by adding movie clips every now and then into the projection. The creator decided to give life to the building and not just display the movie clips.
Form: The three-dimensional projection fit perfectly on the symmetrical windows thus this allowed the creator to come up with various forms of visuals such as blocks, balls, metal cubes, columns and bricks amongst many other forms.
Historiscope De Saint-Laurent
Art and Design Principles: This is very well designed. It included sketched illustrations in white which I personally like and included coloured photographs. For instance the flowers shown on the castle was an image taken with a camera where the creators had to form the flowers themselves.
Elements of Design: Different types of designs were included such as the outline of the castle, cut outs from newspapers, silhouettes, sketched illustrations and photos. All together these formed an interesting projection.
Formal Qualities: The applied patterns and illustrations had a different style from each other yet the art style still matched with each other. The music seemed to be purposely made and synchronized very well.
Function: The show was very entertaining even though it wasn’t a short one. There was a particular scene where flowers covered the whole castle and a sketched illustration appeared from the middle and started to cut all these flowers and dropped to the ground.
Form: The story of the projection was written to commemorate 300 years of history; such as showing pieces of the newspaper from a long time ago.
Elements of Design: Different types of designs were included such as the outline of the castle, cut outs from newspapers, silhouettes, sketched illustrations and photos. All together these formed an interesting projection.
Formal Qualities: The applied patterns and illustrations had a different style from each other yet the art style still matched with each other. The music seemed to be purposely made and synchronized very well.
Function: The show was very entertaining even though it wasn’t a short one. There was a particular scene where flowers covered the whole castle and a sketched illustration appeared from the middle and started to cut all these flowers and dropped to the ground.
Form: The story of the projection was written to commemorate 300 years of history; such as showing pieces of the newspaper from a long time ago.
Photographic Survey
Storyline
SCENE 1:
Welcome to the Festive Palace, a place where magical dreams come alive. On one dark cold night in total darkness one can see a flicker of a light, this flicker of light is a man going up a ladder, he is lighting up the lanterns next to the windows one by one with his long rod. Bit by bit one can start to see the building unfold. The shadows can be seen reflected on the building from the lanterns. The palace comes alive; you can also see silhouettes passing by in the windows swiftly. Now the festive palace is in full view coming alive with lines forming all around the palace.
SCENE 2:
All of a sudden the windows break continuously and are transformed into a tunnel. A tunnel which guides and swooshes down first bringing the first floor into sight which is the ground floor. Poseidon is shown laughing, a close up appears on him and he does not seem to be too pleased, waves of water come out of nowhere and covers the camera.
SCENE 3:
The camera zooms out from the palace bringing us to the front, water gushing out from all the windows in the palace. Where the water trickles out and touches the building it starts forming flooring patterns and the windows form circular patterns appear with shots of grandmasters, they start to move around too. All of a sudden the circles rotate around with new grandmasters showing up. The circles start to increase with speed more and more and this shatters and cracks the tiles on the building, like some kind of shortage.
SCENE 4:
The debris fades out. New life appears and the building starts forming into a skeleton, which seems to be out of the Maltese filigree. The building looks like a cage (this could have some Christmas decorations also shown). The national plant starts growing through the cracks of the filigree and all of a sudden windows open a bird’s fly out to the open. They hold out a ribbon spelling out Merry Christmas. For the New Year celebration the clocks can appear (the ones which are portrayed in the courtyard) the moon moves in front which is on the clock itself and he starts the countdown. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Welcome to the Festive Palace, a place where magical dreams come alive. On one dark cold night in total darkness one can see a flicker of a light, this flicker of light is a man going up a ladder, he is lighting up the lanterns next to the windows one by one with his long rod. Bit by bit one can start to see the building unfold. The shadows can be seen reflected on the building from the lanterns. The palace comes alive; you can also see silhouettes passing by in the windows swiftly. Now the festive palace is in full view coming alive with lines forming all around the palace.
SCENE 2:
All of a sudden the windows break continuously and are transformed into a tunnel. A tunnel which guides and swooshes down first bringing the first floor into sight which is the ground floor. Poseidon is shown laughing, a close up appears on him and he does not seem to be too pleased, waves of water come out of nowhere and covers the camera.
SCENE 3:
The camera zooms out from the palace bringing us to the front, water gushing out from all the windows in the palace. Where the water trickles out and touches the building it starts forming flooring patterns and the windows form circular patterns appear with shots of grandmasters, they start to move around too. All of a sudden the circles rotate around with new grandmasters showing up. The circles start to increase with speed more and more and this shatters and cracks the tiles on the building, like some kind of shortage.
SCENE 4:
The debris fades out. New life appears and the building starts forming into a skeleton, which seems to be out of the Maltese filigree. The building looks like a cage (this could have some Christmas decorations also shown). The national plant starts growing through the cracks of the filigree and all of a sudden windows open a bird’s fly out to the open. They hold out a ribbon spelling out Merry Christmas. For the New Year celebration the clocks can appear (the ones which are portrayed in the courtyard) the moon moves in front which is on the clock itself and he starts the countdown. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Storyboard & Presentation
Actual Work
After finalizing the script, four groups were formed each working on different parts of the projection script. I was part of ‘Scene 2 & End Credits’ which was made up of 9 students: Matthew Dalli, Lorraine Vella, Fabian Meli, Andrew Carter, Claire MarieBorg, Shirley Mallia, Kurt Bullock, Clayton Spiteri and I.
We were then divided again into small groups to work on different sections of the scene. I teamed up with Matthew Dalli and started discussing how the credits should be presented. We looked for inspiration and selected the best that would look on the Grandmaster’s Palace façade.
We were then divided again into small groups to work on different sections of the scene. I teamed up with Matthew Dalli and started discussing how the credits should be presented. We looked for inspiration and selected the best that would look on the Grandmaster’s Palace façade.
Finally the layout chosen for the credits was similar to that on the top left with a bit of added illustrations like the ones on the bottom left.
I was responsible for proof reading all the Credits and any other wording. I enjoyed this role where I also translated from English to Maltese. I constanly kept receiving updates from Matthew Dalli to check on the spelling.
I was responsible for proof reading all the Credits and any other wording. I enjoyed this role where I also translated from English to Maltese. I constanly kept receiving updates from Matthew Dalli to check on the spelling.
I was given the scene of snowflakes falling from the sky to construct. I created this with the help of Toni Gialanze. It was later tweaked by Matthew Dalli with the help of Francantonio Cauchi. “However, as the process continues, we notice that they aren't just snowflakes, but the Maltese lace with different Maltese patterns. One of the laces, which has the 8 pointed cross as the pattern, becomes the focal point, showing the splendor of the Maltese Lace.”
I was given the Snow Trapcode Particular plug-in to be able to bring out the effect of the snow falling. I inserted four different types of snowflakes. My personal favourite is the Maltese Cross Version 1 which is later zoomed in to transform into the door knocker. Then three layers of snow were created to create different effects. The front layers consisted of snow emitting 10 particles per second being blurred at 20. This would give it a realistic look since usually when we observe snow falling, the most front snow is seen big and blurred, the middle snow which is the one we usually look at, seems to be falling at normal speed and seen clearly whilst the back snow is small in size and falling at very slow speed.
I was given the Snow Trapcode Particular plug-in to be able to bring out the effect of the snow falling. I inserted four different types of snowflakes. My personal favourite is the Maltese Cross Version 1 which is later zoomed in to transform into the door knocker. Then three layers of snow were created to create different effects. The front layers consisted of snow emitting 10 particles per second being blurred at 20. This would give it a realistic look since usually when we observe snow falling, the most front snow is seen big and blurred, the middle snow which is the one we usually look at, seems to be falling at normal speed and seen clearly whilst the back snow is small in size and falling at very slow speed.
The particles per second were increases to 60 for the middle snowflakes. The motion blur was adjusted so as the snowflakes are falling, they get a bit blurry. Gravity was also adjusted allowing the snowflakes to float rather than stay at one place whilst falling. The snowflakes were all set to rotate as they fall down. The particles per second were reduced to 8 for the back snowflakes since they will be falling at very slow speed.
I found a YouTube tutorial regarding the Snow Particular where I referred to it whenever I got stuck and needed some guidance.
I found a YouTube tutorial regarding the Snow Particular where I referred to it whenever I got stuck and needed some guidance.
I was also in the Production team where automatically I was assigned to take photos since I own an SLR. I constantly took photos of my classmates while working on the projection mapping.
I took photos when we first visited the palace for measurements. I also was responsible to take photos during the presentation we had in class to show the V18 our idea. I also took photos on the opening night of the Projection. I recorded the whole event in snapshots where I have several photos for each scene that was projected.
My photos were all handed to the team that were constructing the book of the Projection Mapping.
I was asked to make a Work Distribution Worksheet to be distributed to each student to write down what he/she did in the Project Mapping. However this ended up being not used.
I took photos when we first visited the palace for measurements. I also was responsible to take photos during the presentation we had in class to show the V18 our idea. I also took photos on the opening night of the Projection. I recorded the whole event in snapshots where I have several photos for each scene that was projected.
My photos were all handed to the team that were constructing the book of the Projection Mapping.
I was asked to make a Work Distribution Worksheet to be distributed to each student to write down what he/she did in the Project Mapping. However this ended up being not used.