6ix Souls -the end
The water screen shows a roughly 13 minute long film on a continuous loop. Entitled Is Death Your Bitter End? it depicts the beginnings of bacterial life, sudden deaths by drowning, suicide, fire, and old age – and ends on a clip of Carl Jung discussing death. All of this is edited from much longer clips, and laden with effects and sound to give drama and atmosphere. The clips are spaced out with stages of darkness between them.
I finally decided to run the water screen on a timer, such that it comes on every hour during the 8 hours of the daytime degree show, and every half hour during the evening opening. Each ‘burst’ last for merely a minute, on the hour (or half-hour). The resulting mix of flowing water and still globules to project upon adds to the interest.
Last minute arrangements I’m still working on are to replace the laptop to projector arrangement with a DVD player to projector arrangement; it’ll be neater and easier for others to operate. Probably won’t have that ready for assessment, as I discovered today that I don’t have the right cables to achieve sound. Will resolve this by the degree show. ‘Til then, it’ll be a laptop, I guess.
All being well (car journey etc.) I’ll be able to drop off my folios and set up my technology between 9 and 9.30, Monday morning. Hopefully, the lecturers (or someone) will turn it all off at the end of the day. Still not sure about that one. It’ll be a very long day in town otherwise!
