Talking Portraits exhibit featured at Boston Immigration Museum, Prudential Tower Skywalk
Italian immigrant
Studio setup shooting all seven interactive performances in one take
Issiac Newton was positioned in a partial set. Physical props to interact with, and colums bordering a greenscreen.
ICR Discovery Center's Founders Hall. This presentation features six historic scientist engaged in conversation, supported by three untimed illustration, and one Living Illustration.
Portraits and Illustration are placed on three walls. In scripting this content, I distributed dialog among the portraits so that visitors need to continually turn their attention from wall to wall. This 'ping-pong' approach increases visitor engagement. The illustration hanging above the fireplace follows the conversation through head nods, blinks, and smiles, as an active listener.
Isaac Newton
Video content is treatment to 'age' the appearance, and add textural treatments so that the display appears convincingly as an oil paining.
The interest in Talking Portraits relies primarily on engaging content, but aspects of presentation; how exactly the display is treated defines the difference in appearing simply a TV in a frame, versus appearing as a true historic oil painting. If the distressing is done correctly the illustion of being an actual oil paiting will hold up even in closeup.
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle display framed and mounted
Michael Faraday
Louis Pasteur
Johannes Kepler
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule displayed framed and mounted
Living Portrait displays
Fineshed displays of Carver and Gutenberg
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
Illustration sequence Carver
Johannes Gutenberg: The Printing Press
Illustration sequence Gutenberg
Matthew F Maury: Pathfinder of the Seas
Illustration sequence of Matthew Maury
Living Illustration of ICR founder Henry Morris II (H2)
This represents the final render of several test. We found if the movement was too slight it commanded little interest, however too much expression became distracting, and created the 'uncanny valley' concept