Mark Coleran’s portfolio is an interesting look at the creative work that’s required to simulate the make-believe software that we see in television and movies. You’ve seen his work is films like The Bourne Ultimatum, Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible 3, The Island and Mr and Mrs Smith. Here’s an interesting quote on inspiration and the perception that Governments are running a majority of custom designed software vs. applications in use in the public sector.
Overall, the look we go for in these circumstances is almost a hybrid of what Mac, Windows and Linux would look like. The content itself is made to look ‘techy’ but fulfill just one primary aspect. Tell the story.
Reference points we would go to for this kind of thing is no different than the content shows. Image libraries, video feed and camera installations. Databases and communications. All stuff that exists in the real world, used by many other people, not in government. The common assumption is that they have their own unique systems, whereas they probably do not. The way their system work and interact along with odd tools might be unique but generally, not a lot different.
The irony here is that the perception they have something different from the rest of us, is probably propagated by films.
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