Lost Moments: Initial Experimentation

After my initial experiments I was keen to explore projection mapping further, creating an experiment specifically related to Stoke. I started by contacting Ray Johnson from the Staffordshire Film Archive; he provided me with a great montage of footage taken from Stoke during the 1950’s. I was particularly interested in the shots of Stokes pottery factories and canal systems; it reminded me of the survey response describing how the writer missed walking along the canal at the start of the lockdown. I decided to make an initial experiment in response to this by projecting the footage onto a vase created out of paper, providing a nod to Stokes heritage:

I began by designing a low-poly vase in Cinema 4D.

I then brought this 3d file into Pepakura, a programme used to create origami and papercraft. This converted my file into a net that I was able to print off.

Once I had printed off and cut out each face, it was a case of glueing them together and spray-painting to provide a smooth finish.

Once the paint had dried, I brought the footage into Resolume and distorted it to fit onto the shape of the vase. I will elaborate on this process in a subsequent blog.