SIBLINGS: EXHIBITION TECHNICAL ISSUES AND DETAILS

The actual projection of the three films as a triptych comes with a few technical issues that need solving. These are outlined below.


The actual exhibition TV screens or projectors. The physical scale I want to screen them at is large as I want the boys to dominate the room and to make them larger than life. For this reason although I can get hold of TV's up to  40"-50" I am not sure they will be big enough. Projectors will allow much more scale but will demand a bigger space, screens, they can give slightly different looks and can be noisy. However projectors do seem to be the best way to proceed if I can get hold of three.

The synching of the three screens so they interact with each other in synch. There is a little room for error within this BUT I will need to be careful. Ideally this is kept as unobtrusive as possible in the gallery space so as not to detract from the installation.  There are expensive (£100's) ways to control this using MIDI and OCS (open sound controls) but these are technically very complicated. It could be done (albeit a little bluntly) by simply firing off three laptops at roughly the same time also but this involves lots of equipment and laptops that will need hiding in the set. However you can get media card players which are small and simply read the footage from memory cards, USB's and hard drives. These are about £30 each and very unobtrusive. If you get a few that are the same and set up the clips you should be able to fire all three off at the same time synching them.

The screening environment and if I use a back, dark or white space and what sort of size etc is also an issue and also availability of these spaces. As I am aiming to project the installation and the projectors I will be using will not be high end due and possibly not have great brightness, or lumens,  to cost the darker the better for the exhibition space. The black room at UCS would be OK but is very small. However we have a TV studio at the college that I work at that can be blacked out and is a much bigger space of about 5m squared. This will be a great environment and will have the scale that I am after.






Sound issues. Ideally I want a speaker behind each one of the screens. This should not be too much of an issue but I will need amplified speakers and one set for each of the projector screens. I will have to source these and see if I can borrow some as I want he sounds to be loud to attract the viewers attention to the relevant screen.