A/V - The Interactions Between Live Sound and Visuals - Part 2, Projection Mapping

A/V - The Interactions Between Live Sound and Visuals

Part 2 - Projection Mapping

Again delving more into the visual procedures, I have been aware of the process of projection mapping, but as I read through the manual of Resolume Arena 5 I learnt much more about the reality of delivery a good image projection. I decided the best way to learn about it was to get download Resolume Arena 5 and try it out for myself. I found guided tutorials on YouTube such as Aktion's tutorial series to be the most helpful.

I loaned a projector out from the Universities' loan store and set to mapping a still image to the shape of my bass guitar. After some trial and error, I followed Aktion's guide and ended up with footage I took while travelling in Vietnam onto the shape of my bass guitar, which I was very pleased with.

I begun to think about other possibilities of projects to work on, as well as ways to incorporate audio. Searching online I found a great blog which posts large scale audio/video projection map projects where syncronised animations are projected onto large surfaces, often buildings, in impressive displays for various artistic and corporate contexts.

An example of this was applied at the Forum's NYE party. A raised projector mapped a circus door entrance. Commercial applications. I'm learning that the reality of making a career out of A/V work has a strong backbone in corporate jobs, thought it appears that a large market for projectioning is down to visual content creators, which I very little experience in.

My next aim is to bring this process to a night I DJ at - a Funk night called "What The Funk". I have some white vinyl records in my possession and I think it would be interesting to map some funk related imagery onto these upon our DJ riser.

Bibliography

Video Mapping (2015) [Online] Available at: http://videomapping.tumblr.com/ [Accessed on 2/01/2016]

Aktion (2014) Resolume Area 4 Ep1 - Part 1 - Getting Started With Projection Mapping [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHz6IoLsDtA Accessed on [2/01/2016]