Since being back from christmas and the new year I am in a slightly more positive state of mind with this project and university as a whole and have decided to follow my initial ideas of getting the bike to create a visual narrative on the back projected screen which will as i said before be set up in front of the bike in its stand.
Although it is relatively simplistic compared to the audio driven ideas Phil seemed keen on I am going to film from a car a number of roads all spiking off from an initial junction so that the piece becomes interactive in that the cyclist chooses their own pace and will then have a number of choices of different routes they can cycle along, obviously this will mean filming alot of different routes to be followed but i plan to get the camera out within the first week or two of term in January depending on how our other projects are coming along and spend a day getting all these different choices of route filmed.
This may seem – technologically at least – like a bit of a cop out compared to what i had previously discussed with Phil but at least this way i am not going to be stressing out using technology i just dont understand and can have a completed outcome that i will be happy with and i think could be enjoyable to use on the evening of the show.
Here is a short youtube video of the kind of thing i mean,here just achieved through a hemet cam-which is also an option -this is the kind of video that will be projected in front of you on the bike in the stand but you will be able to dictate how fast you go through your pedalling and also when you get to those junctions i you move the handlebars in the direction you want to go that will then trigger video to send you down that route
