Media Embassy 2018

This third and final Media Embassy 2018 workshop draws on the theatrical arts to encourage participants to reflect on the value of arts and creativity in community-building. It is designed and taught by Terrance Saunders.

Today, the last day of the workshop we digitized all the paintings that were done on 16mm film and edited the movies!

Today we transfered the footage we had shot on 16mm and painted the rest of the day.

Day 2: Today we started off the workshop by shooting some more. Later we edited the footage to be shot on the 16mm film black and white high contrast (film stock 3378). We set up the edited footage on the laptop and while playing it on the screen, filmed it with the Bolex 16mm reflex camera. After that, we hand processed the 16mm film in the darkroom we had created in the kitchen area. By closing and covering all the lights leeks that were coming in the room. The processing timing is as the following: Developer 2 min Water 1 min Fixer 3 min Wash in Water 5 min The adults in the workshop were in the darkroom, hand-processing and the kids under 16 experimented with paint on film (on old black and white hollywood movie found footage). The processed and the painted films were hanged outside to be dried.

We started the workshop by going around the table introducing ourselves. We asked the participants to think about what revitalization means to them and asked them how they could express themselves using a word, an object, a colour, etc. that summarizes how they feel about their changing neighbourhood. For the second half of the class we divided into 3 groups of 3 and went outside to shoot some video!

Today we explored ways to add interactivity and animation using CoSpaces coding language - CoBlocks. Some of the more ambitious participants even managed to build a game! Check it out! Directions: Use your mouse and arrow keys to move around and discover the object that you can click on to move to the next level. Some of the other participants explored animating their models using code. While others made an interactive, animated comic!

Today we used CoSpaces built-in coding language, CoBlocks, to add a bit of interactivity to our project! Check it out below!

Today, after a brief discussion about place and all the ways we can describe the places that make up our neighbourhood, we took to the streets, parks and community spaces to capture them with a 360° camera and bring those images into our virtual worlds. Check out some of the photos below! Click and drag to look around.

We kicked off the Media Embassy with the our very first media making workshop in VR and Game making today! It was great meeting all the workshop participants! We had fun playing with some VR demos on the Oculus Go headsets and jumped right into making virtual worlds with CoSpaces! Tomorrow, we'll be out and about the community, capturing some 360° images to bring into our projects! Stay tuned! Check out the worlds they made below! Click and drag the mouse to look around, use the arrow keys to move. Click here to open this project in a new window. Click here to open this project in a new window. Click here to open this project in a new window. Click here to open this project in a new window. Click here to open this project in a new window. Click here to open this project in a new window.