Atmospheres

Firstly, we focused on the sounds that would be associated with the atmosphere of our stairs.

 

The dystopian stairs were mechanical and made of cogs rotating on a chain, and so the sound of machinery and construction was what we would imagine when walking up these stairs.

In contrast, we imagined the utopian stairs bringing a sense of calm and serenity, therefore we chose the sound of a waterfall.

The videos themselves are not linked with our stairs.

This image used the repetition of another image - a building on the city site with the reflection of the apartment complex opposite. We mirrored, scaled and fragmented this image to create the same kind of feeling in 'The Ultimate City', when Halloway sees his own reflection in a highrise and thinks it is someone following him. We wanted to create the atmosphere of confusion and a little bit of movement with the blurred edges.

The second image was from the construction site under the building. These colours reminded us of the bright neon lights we would imagine filled Halloway's city, and also to the Pixel room in our second life hotel facade.

The last image was also from the construction site, and was manipulated to look like the space lead to darkness and was never ending.