Orford Ness

Over the summer of 2004, created an interactive work called Orford Ness as my final project for an MA in New Media Production at ICDC in Liverpool. The project explores the spit of land off the Suffolk coast which was used as a secret military site for most of the 20th Century, conducting tests on a variety of weapons including atomic bombs.

Creating the project involved visiting the site on three occasions, and taking around 500 still images, half on a digital camera, half on film. These were brought into Flash to create a variety of explorable panoramas linked by walks along the routes between them. Sound was also recorded in each of the main parts of the site as well as along the routes.

The original submitted version of the project weighed in at over 60 Mb - too large to put online, so I have optimised it as much as I can to bring it in at around 13Mb which is fine for broadband, and requires patience on dialup...

Orford Ness can be accessed here

There is also a smaller (1.5Mb) stills-only version here