The DENR control room is your classic security control room monitoring CCT cameras. The Department of the Environment and Network Resources are monitoring activities from all around the State. The bush is under surveillance by camera placed in the Sanctuary and surrounding urban sprawl. The cameras are triggered by motion sensors so there is wildlife captured as well as human activity.
This location, full of screens, is used to re-enforce the story aspect that everything is recordable. The control room sees what happens in schools, in the streets, in the sky, in backyards...
The data being presented here in 2D is also available in other more sophisticated forms. Blake hacks that data and this is how she appears to be a virtual form of the bush.
The State Troopers, wearing personal RIGs, can webcast their camera signals back to this control space as well. We see a nanobat being examined from this perspective.
Think of the surveillance capabilities shown in The End of Violence (the NASA room) and Enemy of the State (the CIA room) and Aliens (the trooper personal readouts). I don't want something as simplistic, and neat, as in Congo.
yes but do we do this with lots of small real world monitors or something more hi-tech like a video wall. the video wall can all be done in post and only require one item(the wall) to be tracked. this will 1/ look more appropriate fro state reg near future hi-tech.. al enemy of the state/bond/mission impossible etc.. 2/ make props jobs a lot easier/cheaper.. 3/make av playback job on set non-existent.. mean we dont have to pre prepare for the shoot (i guess we could do a sperate shoot later during post for all this set..) 4/make post screen tracking and info-gfx easier..
Posted by: xian at January 29, 2005 11:15 AMI'm leaning towards high-tech and not worrying about setting up the room itself.
Can we continue this discussion in forum so we all get email updates?
Posted by: .M. at January 30, 2005 10:07 AM