Audacity is NOT our friend

We finished the visuals for our video the other day, and have been working on the sound part since, well, atleast trying to. We had problems trying to convert the song we wanted to use to a suitable format for Audacity, and our computer kept crashing when trying to open up Audacity, so that wasn't stressful at all... but at long last after receiving quite a bit of help, its working. There are two songs we decided to collaborate together, so the aim for tomorrow is to get that finished. Then we'll be ready to burn the video onto a disk!

We also had a bit of an issue with the projection aspect for our video. We didn't really have any idea of what we wanted to project it onto, apart from the idea of a curved surface, but trying to justify how that is related to the theme of our video was the issue. We both had a sudden random brain-wave after considering the idea of 'headphones', and realised what it was we wanted to do. In a couple of the still images we're using, we're sitting back-to-back and this inspired the layout for our installation. So, situated in the middle of a room would be two chairs where the viewers would sit back-to-back, the video would be projected on a large scale for both the people to view independently and they would be using headphones to listen to the sound. This not only reflects the physical contrast/distance between the two people in the video, but also addresses the concept of communication - that so many people today go about listening to music on mp3 players, and are just so disconnected from the world around them, that they avoid communication with others. The video simply being projected onto a blank surface may not be very exciting or creative, but its the layout of the installation thats important. The layout is reflective of the images of the video and so the viewer is more involved on a personal basis.