After a really interesting and constructive work-in-progress meeting last Friday, we went away and reassessed our ideas. In response to questions about how people would know what the jukebox is and how to use it, we thought a lot more about the aesthetics and how to effectively embellish it to make it more attractive and easier to understand. We started to think about an end-of-the-pier style with signage around the place where it’s set up, an awning a bit like a deck chair and possibly a flashing sign like an old penny arcade machine. One style reference we have been looking at is The Museum of Everything in London.
In terms of the story, we had been working on one story; The Shelf Beneath your Eyes. After the meeting we revisited one of our previous projects, The Car Show. Our approach with that show was to come up with numerous short stories/ideas/experiences. The only constraints were that they had to take place in a car and they had to be short (less that 15mins max). We suddenly realised that the Jukebox was a similar beast. What we needed though were the constraints, the things about the Jukebox that make it what it is, like the windscreen, radio etc in a car.
PM Studio Residency – 3rd post
Since our last post, we have made a prototype of the jukebox, erecting a downwards facing projector over a table and testing out a selection of different ideas, all prompted by post cards or photos.
We have refined the idea down even further and although we are interested in the mobile phone technology (and may very well use it in future), for this first jukebox we are now limiting ourselves to top down projection, audio through headphones and RFID to trigger initial picture selections and further triggers (such as turning the card over to start a piece of audio or film) if required.
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