Kettering Arts Market

CtrlG will have some of its members selling artwork at the Kettering Arts Market on Sunday the 30th. Featuring work from Antonietta Sacco and Warren Shaw.

Adrenaline Alley Progress...

Progress is being made with the Adrenaline Alley project. There have been a few changes... we will now be creating content to be integrated into the main site being produced by Webforma Studios. There will be separate flash files for each section of the park containing video and photographs.

Andy R operating the camera
We started collecting all the content for the site this week with sessions at the park this Tuesday and Wednesday. We've already captured some great shots of the empty park as well video/photos of professional skaters / bmxers and audio tracks for the films. ^-^ A couple more sessions are still needed but after that we should have everything we need to work with.

Ben capturing the vert

ctrl g and Adrenaline Alley

For ctrl g's next project we'll be working with our local skate park Adrenaline Alley

"Adrenaline Alley which opened in 2006 has hosted over 93000 visitors and has become known as the biggest, safest and best parks in the UK with a great atmosphere and welcoming attitude. They have become an award wining social enterprise. The founder, Mandy Young has picked up awards for BBC Enterprise in Sport sponsored by EMDA, Finalist - Business Women of the year 2009, Pride of Northamptonshire, Anne Frank Award, High Sherrif's Award and many more including the PAG -Volunteer group of the year 2008."
The park has a range of features including the UK's only Resi jump box, a foam pit, a bowl to Europe's first and only 14ft x 76ft resi/vert ramp. The park also houses music practice rooms as well as a recording studio and an education room that is used by schools and groups in the local area. (Click on the image above to see more)

A selection of ctrl g are going to be working together over the next couple of months to create a flash micro site which will be included in the parks brand new website. It will be a kind of tour of the park allowing users to explore all the different areas through video and photographs.

Although we have been meeting and planning together for the last couple of months today was the day when everything has come together. We have assigned roles, looked at the park and now have a strong plan in place to create the site. This is a very exciting project for us as our final product will be accessed by users all over the world.

As always I will update with the progress on here. ^-^

Lyveden New Bield - Photos by Warren Shaw

Video projections created as part of the workshops
Warren Shaw, a member of our art group ctrlG has posted up some brilliant photos he took during the Lyveden Bonfire Night Extravaganza!

Click here to check them out.

You can see some of Warren's other work on his site here.

Lyveden New Bield - Gunpowder Treason and Plot

The event was amazing! Everything went according to plan, the performers looked great, and the music, audio, lighting, projections and fireworks all fused together perfectly! Well done to everyone who was involved!

I managed to get a few nice shots last night but I know that other memebers of our group took some much better images so I will post links to those soon. Andy E is also going to be editing together a short film of the event which will hopefully be posted online. I will leave you with some of my photos from the night...

Ryan - Camera man #2 Well protected from the rain

Opening Scene on the Spiral Mound


The Architecture Scene


The video sequences created as part of the video workshops


Lyveden as it is today


Fireworks
The performers take their bows

Lyveden New Bield Project: Coming to an end...

So we are only two days away from the Lyveden Bonfire Night Extravaganza! The people from Watch this Space are working very hard over at Lyveden setting up and making the final preparations for Thursdays event.

I was unable to attend the final workshop last Saturday as the deadline for the blueprint animation was just too close but I heard it went down pretty well and that everyone finished off their films on time. So they are all rendered and ready to be projected!

The FINAL Workshop
A GIF has been put together by members of the group of the HUGE stop motion piece we created during the first workshop. Using red ribbon and wool we attempted to create an image of Lyveden New Bield and filmed from inside the building itself. Pretty good for half an hours work I reckon. ^-^


Large stop motion GIF
On the other side of things Andy E and myself visited Lyveden last week for projection tests which was very cool (see previous post for images). We also all visited yesterday to hand over the final versions of our films and to see the set up for the event. It is all looking pretty impressive, I can't wait until Thurs night! Now we just have to wait until the full building projection test happens to be sure that the film can be ticked off completely! Fingers crossed!!

Lyveden New Bield Project: Images

Just a few images from the Lyveden project I thought I would share...

Blueprint Still
Projection Tests
Setting up