Reflections Experimentation

Myself and Nick felt that we needed another week to get our heads around this project, and do some more experimentation into how it will work. Our idea has essentially developed into a documentation of an installation, with the presentation of the installation mixed into the film.

What we are trying to do is create a pseudoscope with cameras as opposed to mirrors. We tried experimenting with this on Tuesday to see how this works and we had some difficulty with the setup, but overall it came out really well.

Our original plan was to have it set up like so:

Figures M and N being the macs with their cameras activated, and figures L and R being 2 DSLR's to simulate each human eye. However, because these are cameras and not mirrors, the R line bounced diagonally off of figure M as opposed to straight ahead as suggested in the diagram. We thought it would be good to try and get this effect, and so we ordered two A4 perspex mirrors to test out a more traditional pseudoscope setup. 

I edited together the footage we got from the 4 cameras from our test on Tuesday, and we still got a very cool and disillusioning effect: