So here we are… December 10, 2009

After months of planning, brainstorming and producing, my final artefact is complete. My personal Read Festival experience has now been fulyl created using Google Earth and is ready to be explored by anyone who may choose to. I finished the piece off by choosing to add the Youtube videos by using their embed codes on [...]

Problem December 5, 2009

My plan was to somehow put import the videos i have collected onto Google earth, showing performances and interviews etc like i have said throughout my production of the piece. I haven’t yet worked out how to put YouTube videos directly on to Google Earth, but i did find a Youtube icon with a tick [...]

Paint is so underrated December 4, 2009

Throughout my piece i have been using the Reading Festival symbol template and adding my own text into it to make my pieces look more authentic. To do this i used a combination of Adobe Photoshop, and a more simple programme, Microsoft Paint. When initially thinking of Paint, it may seem as if the pieces [...]

Maybe not Second Life then December 1, 2009

In an earlier post i put the idea forward of using Second Life to make my piece. In theory, it does meet the demands of the piece needing to be interactive, but there are down sides to using Second Life and due to these i have decided to not use it. I created a basic [...]

Campsite sorted. December 1, 2009

I have now made the video that will go into the ‘campsite’ part of my final piece. The video consists of still images that my friends and i have taken and collected over the past four years. I put them together using IMovie as i new it was a simple programme to use and it [...]

Just one more December 1, 2009

Once again using Sketchup, i have downloaded a template for the campsite part of my map on Google Earth. It is just a simple tent, but there will be more added to the final piece, in a circle as we would at the festival. Then in the middle i will have a marker, which will [...]

NME/Radio 1 Stage and BBC Introducing Stage… Done! November 27, 2009

Using Google Sketchup, i have now created all of my stages, finishing with the NME/Radio 1 Stage and the BBC Introducing… Stage. I am very proud of what i have made, seeing as before this module i had no idea that the software existed, yet how to use it. To be honest i do think my [...]

Archive Stage… Done! November 26, 2009

After i found the stage that i used on my Main Stage, i searched for more music stage templates that were on Google Sketchup, and thought it would save me time and effort if i could find a good one to use for the Archive Tent. I also thought this would be a good idea [...]

Main Stage…. Done! November 25, 2009

After some more experimenting on Sketchup, i have now finished making the Reading Festival Main Stage. My experimenting led me to finding out how to put pictures onto the object, which resulted in the Reading signs being put on each side of the stage. I also found that Sketchup provides hundreds of templates, from objects [...]

Reading never looked so good November 24, 2009

As i have stated in previous posts, the campsite part of my map will include photos that i have gathered over the last four years of going to Reading festival, as well as other people’s photos. I chose ones that i thought depicted the Reading atmosphere and summed it up in just a single image. [...]