Process Reflection:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe process was highly reflective, primarily due to the extensive use of aluminum foil and reflective tape.<\/i><\/p>\n
We ended up being very happy with the design concept for the installation, but struggled a bit with execution. We were able to set up all of the pipes, but a large portion of the installation\u2019s electronics failed. A major issue we faced was just lack of time towards the end, mostly because we changed concepts a few times leading up to the installation week, and didn\u2019t have enough time to properly test everything before the final install.<\/p>\n
The installation process itself ended up being far more chaotic than we expected, primarily because we didn\u2019t have room access until the show was actually happening. The scale of the other installations was larger than we thought, so testing the camera\/microphone pipes and running wires while the show was happening was really difficult.<\/p>\n
The electronics turned out to be very difficult mostly just because of scale. An audio cable is easy, but 300ft of audio cables is not. In the end, a lot of little bits failed because they were rushed and we didn\u2019t test in the actual setting extensively enough. The audio cables were likely shorting occasionally which would kill the microphones, and the thick walls of CFA made the video signal on the melon too weak to work (the vertical\/horizontal sync just refused to work if the signal wasn\u2019t really strong). Ideally we would have tested all of these things beforehand, but because of time we could not.<\/p>\n
We did however learn that even if your thing doesn\u2019t work you can still show it as long as you have good lighting, which we were lucky enough to bring along with us. Although it definitely would have been even cooler if everything functioned, people still enjoyed looking at the project, which is definitely some form of success. Two of the video feeds worked which was great, but the audio breaking was super unfortunate.<\/p>\n
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