Welcome! This is my portfolio for the Minor Audio Visual Design, currently separated from the rest of my site since it's still a work in progress. The minor runs from September 2024 to the end of January 2025. On this page I will document the work I do in collaboration with the other students throughout the minor on a week by week basis.
Week 1 - Introduction
2-9 ~ 6-9-2024
ROTTT
Practice assignment Projection mapping - Collaboration with Maxim
One of the very first exercises we got was to use MadMapper to project on a cardboard box for starters. We started with a video from Maxim on the cardboard box but quickly moved on to an old CRT TV. We noticed that projecting on the old display worked quite well and looked authentic to using it traditionally, we put on some old commercials and gameplay footage, age-appropriate to the television we projected it on. It was quite enticing to look at so we added more monitors until we ran out.
Foley artists for two hours
Practice assignment Audio Design - Collaboration with Anouk, Calum, +2 others
Today's practice was to recreate sounds from a movie scene with any objects we could find. In the movie industry this is called Foley after the man who started it, Jack Foley. We were given a set of movie clips without any sound, out of which we chose a scene from the move 'No Country for Old Men'. Using a bin, a bottle, some flash drives, a binder and some more items; We created the following:
Week 2
5-9 ~ 13-9-2024
Introduction week No new entries
Week 3
16-9 ~ 20-9-2024
Analog projection
Practice assignment Visual Design - Collaboration with Anouk and Christian
The first practice assignment for visual design was to create an installation or performance without any software for the visuals; Audio made with Ableton was allowed. The installation had to be inspired by the World Press Photo 2021 Winner 'The First Embrace' by Mads Nissen.
Week 4
23-9 ~ 27-9-2024
Window into a World
Portfolio assignment 1 Visual Design
The first assignment for Visual Design is to build an installation that used projection mapping and was to be inspired by the phrase 'Window into another World'.
Practice assignment Visual Design - Collaboration with Anouk, Christian and Jack
A practice assignment for Visual design where we had to create a visual installation based on the World Press Photo 2014 Winner 'Signal' by John Stanmeyer. This assignment was not destined to be a portfolio piece but I included it anyway because I thought it was nice.
The first assignment for Audio Design is to make a remix out of self-recorded samples of everyday items. Mostly as a show of skill and to get to know Ableton.
Used samples include:
OV-Chipcard Check-in, Check-out and Fault
Microwave beep
Door slamming closed
Stepping on leaves
Stepping on a crooked manhole cover
I mostly went for a simple melody, akin to old school video game music. I tried to incorporate the OV-chipcard sounds as a recurring element.
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Week 6
7-10 ~ 11-10-2024
Abstraction
Portfolio assignment 2 Visual Design
The second portfolio assignment for Visual Design is to create an abstract installation using a real world object as the main subject. Using text was prohibited.
Practice Assignment Visual Design - Collaboration with Calum, Christiaan, Iaith and Timo
The performance installation was a combined exercise for both Creative Research and Visual Design. The assignment was to create a performance installation that included the makers as part of the installation. The installation is to invoke some sort of emotion in the audience and has to draw inspiration from the World Press Photo 2022 Winner 'The Cinema of Kabul' by Bram Janssen.
Practice Assignment Projection Mapping - Collaboration with Layla and Malaika
We were sent out to make a statement with our projections. Armed with a projector, a laptop and a long power cord we went around the school to campaign for the installation of more microwaves. Not at all influenced by the fact that we waited half an hour for our turn at lunchtime.
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The last portfolio assignment was to create a tutorial about anything that I learned during the minor up untill now. I chose to make a tutorial about how to connect hardware to Madmapper via OSC. I decided to make this tutorial because, being an Electrical Engineering student, I had a lot of experience with hardware and I thought it would be a good way introduce the others to the possibilities of hardware in combination with projection mapping. The tutorial has been created for a beginner audience and is meant to be a stepping stone for more advanced projects.
Events in the future have not yet been documented. Thank you for reading up until here and please come back later.
This document has been part of a school assignment for the Minor Audio Visual Design at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.
Course ID:
JM-AVDESE-22_2024 Last updated:
12:33 20-11-2024
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