It works against a printed background!!
So, how could I show existing sequences off-location? I made a low cost print of the background photo and viewed the sequence against it. It worked really well! So I decided to make two 180 desktop stands to view the sequences against. These stands should be portable and easy to set up.
I made a card template and searched the Brighton Woodstore shop opposite, and various kitchen shops for inspiration for the stand.
Exhibit Printing along the corridor in New England House said they could print a vinyl sticker if I sourced a piece of plastic. Brighton and Hove Plastics in Portslade had exactly what I needed in terms of size and bendiness.
Now I needed some 180 panoramas of the backgrounds. I borrowed the 360 camera from the Immersive Lab and took some photos. The resolution of these turned out to be too low for the print so I took a series of photos with my Olympus and found some software to stitch them. Unfortunately the council were building flats in Kensington Street, the site of my first sequence, so it was unrecognisable so I took photos of a different, but similar, gratified street and asked Neil’s help to merge the two.
Lucy from Lucid Design came up with the graphic design and before long I had two beautifully printed 180 backdrops on bendy plastic and some oiled wood blocks and withy to make the stand. Thanks to Chris Willatt for making the blocks.
