Ambience will be a live event at Bristol Festival 2009. On the Friday evening people can book out a handheld computer (i-paq) and headphones (from the same box office as silent disco gear). They then choose music to listen to as they wander around the harbourside, Anchor & Millennium squares.
Over 50 pieces of short film will have been 'hidden' in the area, and as they walk around they 'collect' the 'hidden' films (using gps and mscape software on the i-paqs).
When they want, they stop and watch back the films collected on their i-paq, the music becoming the soundtrack to the films. [To see an example, see www.e-merge-walks.com which shows walks and films from St James's Park, March 09 Or see
http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/news/2009/02/21/jackie-calderwood-tells-us-more-about-innovation-project-e-merge/ for background about the filmmaking mediascapes]
Some of the collated films will also be shown intermittently around the site that evening - eg projected inside venues, onto the Lloyds building, BBC big screen.
The 50+ film clips will be collected from the public by an open call.
Although the size and frame rate for i-paq playback is low (320x240 and 12 fps, with films converted by me into .swf) that will not be adequate for larger playback. Hence I'd like people to send in the best quality they have, and ideally standard DV 4:3 ratio (as that's how I'll edit to compile films for large screen).
The music will be from bands who have applied to play at the festival but who won’t be playing live this year.
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