This the film I presented at the Crit. It is certainly a work in progress… Frustratingly, I seemed to spend such a large amount of time learning as opposed to creating but I will continue to work on it as I am confident it will eventually come together.

This is the final test, an animated transition between the digital and the physical footage. The first frame of each sequence is geospatially referenced as a perspective within Google Earth to provide a near seamless transition.

This is an example of the footage that will be shown as part of the route. It will be synchronised along with the other aspects of the sequence, elements of which will accumulate over time.

It was achieved recording a path animation in Google Earth with the recently generated 3D building layer. I have further enhanced the footage using a tilt-shift lens effect to play with the sense of scale.

Conceived back in the late sixties, Centreplan 70 was the name of a master-plan to redevelop Cardiff’s city centre. Thankfully it was never realised, due in part to the 1970s property recession.

This film is my cut on the original, which was made in promotion of the scheme. Unfortunately, the sound has been lost but one could imagine a suitably optimistic voice-over speculating on future benefit.

Instead I have used this re-work to symbolise and enhance, in retrospect, the potential short-comings of such a vision. It seeks to portray the Architect as the egotistical overlord, the antithesis of which is the crux of my primer project and subsequent thesis.

I have also introduced a soundtrack: String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) by Philip Glass.

This animation was rendered in Google Earth and sources all raw GPS trace data from the OpenStreetMap database to date. The frequency of tracking is relatively low compared to other major cities but it would be interesting, not only to witness the aggregation and pattern of concentration over time, but also whether or not the resulting point ‘cloud’ data could be used to define any spatial geometry.