Overview

It’s Royal Show time again here in WA and GMG has been approached to create a couple of exhibition pieces for the WA police. This year our brief is quite different to our previous creation.

The new theme is the future of policing and the two exhibits focus on the jobs in a modern police force and their new concept car.

Multimedia

We were provided with a set of 8 photograph cutouts of  police officers, their job descriptions and some highlights. The brief was to create something encompassing Terminator and Predator in an interactive touch screen presentation.

The character photographs were displayed in a 3D layer, three deep. When you drag your finger across the screen, the character closest to the centre of the screen gets focus (all others are blurred out and faded) and the job highlights and description are displayed. Changing focus also resorts the police description (PD) list (top left) and they animate in. Text animates in as if it is being typed.

The PD list can also be touched to quickly change focus to that character.

On the right there is some eye candy. There are four buttons that change the scan mode to infrared, ultraviolet, night vision, and magnetoresonance. We just made up some colours and had a glowing wipe between the backgrounds. Changing mode also changes the blend mode of the characters that are not currently in focus.

Finally, we added a screen saver that changes characters and scan modes randomly at different times.

Video

The video is created from a selection of video clips of the concept car, some motion graphics, and custom 3D animation.

Surrounding the concept car are four large screens that loop the video and introduce the main features of the car.