The Making of Rites of Passage

The website is ready!

2009-05-01T20:41:00.003+03:00

Check it out:
http://mlab.taik.fi/ritesofpassage/

Proposals for London

2009-04-23T01:49:00.003+03:00

1st

2nd

Sound Design

2009-04-21T09:54:00.000+03:00

Dimitri Paile designing the sound.

Credit points earned

2009-04-07T17:54:00.002+03:00

The official school part of the project has now ended and credit points are earned. Though we still need to finish some stuff and look forward for opportunities in London and Eindhoven - maybe we get the opportunity to built RoP into the installation that we were planning in the first place. :)

Thank you everybody for the good job!

Sound Demo

2009-03-31T17:44:00.003+03:00

Alex Jones and Dimtiri Paile have been working with the sound. Listen!

Working with the flash

2009-03-24T21:48:00.002+02:00

Niko Knappe and Ramyah have done some nice work with the Flash part of the website. Niko created the file for running all the sequences at the same time and Ramyah designed the menu.

Editing

2009-02-05T18:47:00.002+02:00

Oona and Liisa started editing today.

We have 16Gb and more than 8000 still photographs - and of course Final Cut Pro.

Filming DONE!

2009-01-30T19:55:00.003+02:00

Kiitos kaikille! Thank you all team members for the hard work of past two days!

The required video material for the website and installation has now been filmed by three still cameras (Nikon D90 and 2x Nikon D80) and two video cameras. The main camera was filming the whole two days from same position and additional camera angles were taken by hand with the other two still cameras.

Here are some previews of the additional material:

Making of Rites of Passage 29.1.2009

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Making of Rites of Passage 29.1.2009
Originally uploaded by Designhuone.net

1st filming day 29.1.2009

2009-01-29T15:40:00.007+02:00

Today we started filming the actual video with shots of Asta.

Rites of Passage Test Video

2009-01-29T15:37:00.003+02:00

A reference video for the dancers that was shot at our ministudio's test scene.

Shotlist

2009-01-27T22:46:00.001+02:00

Changes in our team

2009-01-27T08:33:00.006+02:00

Tara Pattenden-Fail, Jari Suominen and Anna Kotila-Row has left our team but new sound designers Alexandra Jones and Dimitri Paile - and photographer Heidi Uutela - have joined our team. Welcome! :)

Video showed on Demo Day

2008-12-20T13:14:00.000+02:00

Testing

2008-12-10T22:23:00.002+02:00

Wednesday we were testing the set with dancers Anna Salmi and Daniel Suominen while Oona was giving them instructions.

The set was build up into the Media Lab's ministudio.

MediaLab Helsinki's Demo Day

2008-12-10T22:19:00.003+02:00

We will present our project at the MediaLab Demo Day on 18th of December at the University of Art & Design Helsinki at the MediaLab.

Test shots for choreography

2008-12-05T22:25:00.001+02:00

Plans for the set

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Storyborad for the Wedding & Death

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Storyborad for the Birth

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Accessories and clothes

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Note! Some clothes are missing from these photos.

Sketch for the video

2008-11-10T18:08:00.002+02:00

A big part of the installation will be the video. Our idea is to combine the three rites of passage (birth, wedding and death) in a visually interesting way. Here is Oona's and Mercede's sketch for it:

The video is filmed 17 times, each time with different outfits. After filming the material will be edited into an interactive video with 17 different layers that the viewer will be able to switch at the installation.

An installation + Website documentation

2008-11-08T00:42:00.002+02:00

After browsing through plenty of interesting YouTube material, NEiD project pictures and sharing our knowledge from our previous projects, the form of the Rites of Passage visualization started to clear up.

We decided to build up an installation, which includes a room and within the room is a video projected (and controlled interactively). The theme of the video is birth, wedding and death and most of the clothes and accessories designed for the NEiD 2008 project will be presented on the video.

Among the installation we will create a website which will include the same video as at the installation + background information of the objects and outfits that was seen on the video.

Inspirational material

2008-11-03T00:17:00.000+02:00

Here are some of the videos we found interesting at the start of our project. Saskia Olde Wolbers, David Lynch, Six Feet Under:

All of our inspirational material can be found as a list of links on the right side menu.

Who are we?

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Students:
Tara Pattenden - Media Lab Helsinki
Ramyah Gowrishankar - Media Lab Helsinki
Liisa Tervinen - Media Lab Helsinki
Jari Suominen - Media Lab Helsinki
Anna Kotila-Row - Media Lab Helsinki
Markku Ruotsalainen - Media Lab Helsinki
Oona Colliander - Fashion and clothing design
Mercedes Pino Lopez - Fine Arts / Scenography

Supervisor:
Oskari Pastila - Media Lab Helsinki Alumni, Media artist

Producerl:
Pipsa Asiala - Media Lab Helsinki

Background info of the project

2008-09-15T17:42:00.006+03:00

Background info:

The NEiD-project

The NEiD (New European Identity)–project i is a collaboration between four European schools of art and design. The participants are Helsinki University of Art and Design, Design Academy Eindhoven, and Iceland Academy of the Arts. The aim and purpose of NEiD, was for students of fashion, textile and jewelry design to research their European heritage and folklore in order to find new ways of interpreting the European identity.

The theme for NEiD 2008 was Rites of Passage: birth, wedding and death. Each student made their personal research on one of these topics both in their home country as well as in one of the other four countries. The students worked individually on their personal projects in order to create new designs. This has resulted in new design that reflects a New European Identity.

We continue the results of the workshop to the digital environment building up our own story and visual images.