Week 4 : Wednesday

Sadly return to London. The next week will be spent editing the research material, 2 short films and the motion capture documentation day.
Cleaning data.
Making the 3d environments.
Making the 3d Trees.
Should hear back from the Reading company to see whether they have managed to make one of ~Bruno’s 3d Trees.
Sort out the return visit 1st October – 24th October re accommodation with the lovely Mel at Artsway.

Week 4 : Tuesday

10am -7pm Cancelled Henry who was going to work with Ruth in the media suite to finish off digitising the rest of the footage. Bruno & Ruth go into the Forest to get more footage.

Week 4 : Monday

Need to shoot some extra shots for the films, texture maps and to simply experience being in the forest again after a week of being on the computer in the studio.

Week 3 : Friday

10am – 7pm Bruno works on making CG trees. Meeting to look at what needs to be done next week. Planned trip to the Forest is cancelled because of rain. Still to do are some still shots of the forest locations, texture maps and two scenes in costume. ( Ruth will take Jo’s place from now on to do the final performances for the film studies.

Ruth works on the administration of the project. Payments, organising the next month’s residency and filing all receipts for travel expenses, costumes, tape stock and miscellaneous goods bought specifically for the project.

Week 3 : Thursday

10am -7pm Ruth works with Henry in the media suite digitising all the footage from the first 2 weeks. Bruno follows up Tree software and developments with the Rapid prototyping 3d physical tree.

Week 3 : Wednesday

10am – 7pm. Ruth and Bruno visit Reading to meet the managing director of the Rapid prototyping company. Visit New Greenham Arts to see Sally Childs. Discuss the project on the train journey. Happy with the results so far but still a long way to go. Happy in that ideas within the film studies worked such as our subject is both “the observed” and “ the observer” depending on whether movement was involved or how the camera changed the narrative. We have to decide how we carry this forwards into a single user 3d environment. What we can learn from simple things as camera techniques, motion and to some extent choice of colour. We have to decide whether our films studies are relevant for exhibition or should be kept as valuable process material.

Week 3 : Tuesday

10am – 7pm Work in the studio. Decide on which way to go for the film studies. Still unsure whether to exhibit this. There are two films suggested, a funny one with plenty of handheld and lots of motion and a more effective one with stillness. The stillness film seems to be more appropriate to the project and the camouflage themes.

Week 3 : Monday

3d tree

10am -7pm Start to clean data from the motion capture day. Bruno works with Tree software and solves problems regarding shadows. Ruth learns from the software how to identify certain trees in the forest. It is noted after a meeting with Helen that we are like modern day Ruskin nature watchers (as well as using pencil and notebooks, maps and pressed leaves) we are working with software in the same way considering disguised mobile phone masts, army camouflage and integration of technology and nature.

Mocap software

Mocap sessions

This is us doing mocap outside and in the studio with Ali from Animazoo. Note the treemounted wireless receiver

Week 2 : Friday

10 am – 1pm Ruth and Jo do class at Forest Arts in New Milton.
2pm – 5pm plan the schedule for next week.
5pm – 8pm Artsway host an artist talk and get together with local artists and interested parties. Really interesting group of people artists, cuarators. sponsors etc ask about past work and the latest developments of Summerbranch. The group view previous work on DVD in the Forester’s Arms garden.

Week 2 : Thursday

10 am – 1pm Ruth and Jo do class at Forest Arts in New Milton. Bruno………
2pm – 7pm Ruth & Jo edit small version of the film studies. Search for what is needed re extra shots.

Week 2 : Wednesday

10am – 7pm Motion Capture Day. Lisette & Henry document the day’s events and we capture all the movement sequences outside in the grounds of Artsway.

Filming In the New Forest

Bruno is behind a tree

Week 2 : Tuesday

10am – 1pm Jo rehearses motion capture material and warms up at Forest Arts in New Milton. Ruth briefs Lisette and Henry (Bournemouth University Film Students) on the days ahead.
2pm -7pm Film with 3 cameras at the Wilverly location.


Henry up a tree

Week 2 : Monday

10am – 1pm Rehearsals and warm up at Forest Arts in New Milton
1pm – 2pm Meet and schedule the day. Mark arrives as 2nd camera for the day to help with the filming. (We like to run a military style operation..)
2pm – 7pm Bolder wood & Ornamental Drive filming

Week 1: Friday

10am – 1pm Rehearsals and warm up at Forest Arts in New Milton
1pm – 2pm Meet, make a new schedule, look at weather forecast. Plan for the next week.
2pm – 7pm Bruno goes out into the forest to photograph bark and leaf textures.

Week 1: Thursday

10am – 1pm Rehearsals and warm up at Forest Arts in New Milton. Start to integrate motion capture dance material into the rehearsals, research and development of what was found in the field. Develop movement material as a direct result of working in the Forest. See how this applies to the movement in the virtual environment. What differs, what will works in the forest, what will work with the motion capture kit?
1pm – 2pm Company meet to discuss location for the day.
2pm – 7pm Wilverly Film in Forest

Week1: Wednesday

10am – 1pm Jo and Ruth Rehearse and warm up at Forest Arts in New Milton. Decide that the movement material needs to be as close as possible to our animal studies and very minimal for the film to blend in with the environment (camouflage). Improvised dance sequences don’t work for the projects ideas particularly in the film studies. Bruno works with motion capture test files. Buys the Tree software and designs trees. Applies forest texture maps.
1pm – 2pm Company meet to discuss location for the day. Visit deer feeding part of animal research for movement material in the virtual environment.
2pm – 7pm Ornamental Drive Film in Forest

Week 1: Tuesday

Image of Artsway


10am – 1pm Jo and Ruth Rehearse and warm up at Forest Arts in New Milton. Ruth buys extra costume material in an Army shop in New Milton. Bruno works with motion capture test files. Locates New Tree software on the web and tests it out. Bruno orders Ghillie suit for main costume. Applies Texture maps.
1pm – 2pm Company meet to discuss location for the day. Look at Film footage to see what works on camera, and anticipate what will work in the mc suit.
2pm – 7pm Bolderwood Film in Forest

Week 1: Monday

10am – 1pm Jo and Ruth Rehearse and warm up at Forest Arts in New Milton. Try out the dance themes (still movements and very fast travelling sequences). Bruno works with motion capture test files. Designs trees. Start making 3d environment.
1pm – 2pm Meeting, Schedule, Weather reports. Plan the week ahead.
2pm – 7pm Explore locations and movement material in trial costumes in the New Forest.
Head off to Bolderwood, Ornamental Drive and Wilverly.