Despite being quite ill and having been absent for our Wednesday morning studio, on Thursday afternoon I managed to make my way to Signal for our individually run group tutorial.
In this meeting, Jordan took us through a live tutorial on how to navigate the Signal projection template on Adobe Premier Pro. Demonstrating the necessary skills of multi-screen resizing, timelapse staggering / synchronised playback, and other useful editing techniques, this tutorial was helpful in reiterating the necessary technical considerations that Signal’s exhibition properties present.
For example, being both on site and speaking with Jordan, our class discovered that Signal’s physical beams / framing will limit (or perhaps creatively challenge) the way we compose our frame. Being placed in the centre of each of the four screens, our projections will consequently have to be quite mindful in how they deliver visual information, as a large chunk of the centre will be essentially ‘dead space’.