This document proposes an art installation project based on a short film about a man trapped alone at sea inside a clear sphere. The installation would consist of projections of the film's ocean setting on all four walls of a room. The floor would be made of clear material with water inside. Speakers would play sound from overhead. As the film depicts an intensifying storm, the installation would react synchronously with moving projections, flashing lights from speakers, and changing water effects on the floor. The goal is to immerse viewers in the emotions and sensations of the character through an interactive 360-degree multimedia experience.

1. Personal Project
Dan Walsh
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2. Project Proposal
Tag line:
When there’s thunder and lightning, what’s inside is more frightening.
Log line:
A Man is trapped, floating along the empty sea in a sphere of his own fear. Nothing outwardly scares him but the
capabilities of his own mind. He goes through a list of sins and wrongdoings he’s done through his life, tortured
by their consequences but tempted by their lures. All the while he’s unaffected by the natural violence of storms
and viscous temperatures occurring around him.
Scene Synopsis:
In a ball upon the vast ocean, a man is located, like parchment in a bottle he floats with a message, a clear and
cruel message that he repeats vocally over and over. "I am a danger to others". The sun beats down but he isn't
heated. He sees neither boats nor animals, stuck in a Perspex shell of wet wilderness. He battles and reminisces
over his past activities in a crazed schizophrenic rage. His cell is his own company, alone in the empty horizon.
The waves around him are smooth and silent, as he whispers about his regret, his vessel drifts quietly and
peacefully until he begins to challenge his thoughts. He shows his true feelings. The sphere sways ever more
increasingly as he exerts his temper, raises his voice and opens up his previously cowering body. Clouds gather
around him and turn black as though the apocalypse nears. He screams his cruel desires. His rage intensifies and
as he commences, a furious storm breaks out over the skies. His cell thrashes and crashes against the turbulent
slaps of the surging sea. Still he stands in defiance of nature’s most powerful forces. Thunder claps in the air like
a million galloping stallions. “I am a danger to others” His circular cell is plunged below tonnes of waves and rain
and then thrown back out into the air; it bounces and is sideswiped by currents and gusts. Still unaffected by all
of this, the man rises to his feet again, imposing and grotesque with power, “I AM A DANGER TO ALL!” Lightening
lights up the entirety and a crash of eardrum bursting intensity numbs all the senses. All that can be seen is
white, and all that can be heard is a deafening silence. Slowly the white fades back to an empty calm ocean,
whispering waves and wandering winds will suggest calmness and cool. The man and his tomb have now
vanished.

4. Idea
My idea is to do an installation piece based around
the film in my proposal. The installation would be
based inside a square room, projections of the
location would be on each wall within along with a
lit strong Perspex clear flooring that contains water.
Four LCD screens will face each wall so an audience
member can see the action no matter where they
stand, and speakers will be dotted all over a black
ceiling. The projections, water and sound will react
and change along with the intensity of the film,
getting wild and dangerous as the action unfolds.

6. Creating a four dimensional space.
One thing I really wanted with this piece as an
installation is for an audience to be involved in the
film. The way I will achieve this is with surround
sound, 360 degree action and the use of physical
interactively in the space. Making the viewer feel
emotions that lend themselves to the ones the
character will be experiencing along with his
physical geography. I really want to specifically
focus on the movement, water and the
visual/sound combination during the storm.

7. Movement
I aim to make an audience feel as though at sea
by having the projected films sway as though at
sea, I might potentially do the same thing to the
film on the LCD’s if it doesn’t take away quality.
I’ll also be careful not to make this too intense
so it doesn’t affect an audience more than a
visual trick.
(The last thing I want is for people to be sick)

8. Water
The way I think water will come in handy is
through the physical presence of it within the
installation, I initially though of water raining
onto an audience when the storm picks up on
screen, but the thought process is much more
ideal than the actuality of it. I chose instead to
use a clear flooring with water within it that I
can control and light to coincide with the images
and feel of the film at any time. Thus creating a
more eerie 4D experience.

9. Visual and Sound
The film will show a viscous storm breaking out, this
is when the surround sound and horizon
projections will really come into play. As the storm
occurs on screen the same will happen on the walls,
when lightening strikes on screen one of the walls
will flash with a bolt and the sound will boom from
that side of the room. This will change with each
lightening occurring within the film, so the audience
will never know which side of the room will light up
and boom. I hope this will make the space feel
tense and dangerous, which in turn will hopefully
make the action on screen more so.

10. VFX / SFX
The visual and special effects I use in this piece will all involve the
water, weather and environment, most of which will have to be
achieved with green screening , but I hope that the use of water
within the physical environment of the installation (in the flooring).
Will give a more live action feel to the effects taking place during
the film.