Bioluminescence @ Tabulam Trail of Light and Sound

The Bioluminescence Project was invited to be a part of the Trail of Light and Sound in Tabulam put on by RealArtWorks.

Workshop day one started with a full group of 11 young people from Tabulam and surrounds. One young person even travelled two hours to get here! Kicking off we looked at how to get better videos using composition techniques like the rule of thirds and turning on the grid on the cameras plus some tech speak about resolutions and frame rates - everyone loves slo-mo! Then we went to the banks of the mighty Clarence to capture the local environment and to maybe see somethings we've only walked past without noticing. Small flowers, lichen on an old log and the patterns made of dried mud on a track. After lunch we jumped into Lumafusion and edited what we shot. By the end of day one they had created over 70 short clips of their own content ready for the show on Saturday night! Bring on day two!! As always a big thanks to @eye_candy_portals for the boundless enthusiasm, endless experiments and taking a thousand pics every day! More behind the scenes stuff over on his Insta! 

Day two! It's always good when the young people come back, that means day one was fun! They air-dropped over 90 clips of content that they had made the day before so we jumped straight into video projection mapping. Because we are inside the hall and we could make it dark it was straight into mapping the space. Mapping takes team work! So with a guide close to the surface being mapped helping the computer operator. Lots of "the top left point nudge right up down" They rocked this and by dinner the hall was mapped! After pizza and chips (healthy food choices!!) it was adding our content and testing the smoke machine. We were ready for the big event!

Day Three - Showtime!! A final briefing over a dinner of pizza, talking safety, being good hosts and roles and responsibilities once the Bioluminescence Crew hi-vis shirts were on were all discussed. A final rehearsal and tech check, smoke machine on, a run down of how to use @eye_candy_portals arm mounted projector - The Beyard - and we were ready to go! We had our Ops Stations all set up including the ever popular video microscope and bugs, a live video feedback set up plus the two computers triggering the 90+ clips that were made and controlling the Totem and projection maps around the Tabulam Hall. And suddenly the crowd was on us filling the immersive audio-visual installation we had co-created in three days! Lots of questions, lots of awe, lots of questions and plenty of smiles and laughter as the residents of Tabulam saw their hall in a different light, completely transformed by their young people! What a blast! Thank you Tabulam and thank you #RealArtWorks for the invitation!