Sprocket
A physical interface for live cinema editing. It was designed for movie theaters, for the editing and manipulation of narrative films, but it can be adapted for other uses. The idea for the tool came from the necessity to develop a specific editing environment for live cinema, different from the VJ softwares available today, which didn't attend some of our requirements for narrative movies.
The main motivation for the project is the non-linear film Ressaca, by Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Vianna. This fiction feature film will be shot in July in Rio, thanks to the sponsorship of Instituto Oi Futuro (http://www.oifuturo.org.br). After the shoot, the prototype interface will need to be upgraded to a working version, that can manage the amount of footage available (more than 120 minutes of edited sequences), besides visual effects such as slow motion and cross-fades.
The whole project was developed as an open-source / open-hardware tool, and was based on some of the technology created for the Reactable project (http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/), thanks to the collaboration of their developers, besides Pompeu Fabra University and Hangar art center, in Barcelona. The whole code is published under open source licenses and will naturally continue to be after the developments at the Medialab. The footage will be released on the web, using p2p networks, under a Creative Commons license, as with Vianna's first feature, Cafune (http://icommons.org/articles/cafune-breaking-the-limits-for-open-business-models).
Hardware
- Plexiglass touch screen
- 2 video projectors
- 2 computers
- video camera for tracking
Software
- Puredata (for video playback)
- Processing (for interface graphics)
- Reactivision (for touch screen tracking)
Artist name:
Maira Sala, Bruno Vianna
URL: http://www.geral.etc.br/engranaje
