The Actual Installation

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After having deliberated a million different ideas of how our video was going to be projected, we finally reached a decision with only a few days to spare.

Our final idea still involves the two viewers sitting back-to-back watching and listening to the video at the same time. However, instead of it being projected onto a surface, or using a projector, we decided to show it on two computer monitors. These monitors would be placed on a table, ontop of a plinth, so when sitting at the table, the monitor would be at eye-level to the viewer.
We constructed two boxes which the viewer would have to look through at one end, and the monitor would be placed at the other. The boxes consisted of an outer box and an inner box, where the outer box would fit the dimensions of the monitor so it seemed like it was one big piece of construction. And within this box was a tunnel, which fitted solely around the screen of the monitor. The viewer would therefore be looking through this tunneled box and viewing the screen at the other end.
The idea of the tunneled boxes was to confine the viewer and the video, so it would reach them on a more personal level. Viewing the video through a dark tunnel symbolises the idea of narrow-mindedness and tunnel-vision, which we feel is evident in today's society. The viewers would be listening to the track through head-phones which again allows them to concentrate purely on the message of the video and disengages them from the world around them, which is what people tend to do nowadays - isolate themselves into their own little worlds by walking around and listening to mp3 players. This use of technology (head-phones, computer monitors) again highlights the idea of communicating via technology.
The two viewers would watch and listen to exactly the same things at the same time, and be in very close proximity to eachother, yet still be in their own little world. We feel this layout is an exact reflection of the theme of our video and brings it to a more personal level for the viewer.