Monday:
‘The challenge of this studio brief is for you to imagine the laneway differently and to propose a design for one of the existing buildings, or spaces between or on top of buildings which enhances the public life of Fort Lane. You might also
consider designing a temporary event which creates a temporary public.
In this design studio you will need to be inquisitive and curious, and to identify an aspect of the site that resonates with you. We want you to observe your responses to the site. What do you notice? What stands out? What do you overlook? What is hidden, forgotten, covered over? What is problematic, missing, or unseen?
Your design project will explore the Fort Lane site (including the existing buildings) in relation to a cinematic concept &/or process, such as 2 Giuliana Bruno, Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (New York, NY: Verso, 2007), p165. 3 frame, projection, sequence, movement and transition.’
- Read Giuliana Bruno’s Public Intimacy pages 17-21 as a starting point for your design inquiry
Tuesday:
- Research cinematic devices and their long histories
Pre cinema devices:
- Theatre.
- Shadow play.
- Camera obscura.
- Magic lantern and other image projectors.
- Raree show.
Precursors to film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precursors_of_film
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/film/advent-of-cinema/
The first important aspect is the distance between the camera and the person(s)/ object(s) that is (are) going to be filmed. There are three broad categories: the long shot, the medium shot and the close-up. . Within these three categories there is a variety of subdivisions. The two most important ones are the extreme long shot (Panoramaeinstellung), e.g. a tiny group of riders in a gigantic landscape in a Western, and the extreme close-up (Detailaufnahme) where only e.g. an eye or the mouth is seen.
Another important element of visual composition is the angle (Blickwinkel) of the camera. When the camera adopts the perspective of a character the terms point-of-view (or POV-) shot or subjective camera are used. Voice-over means that a character speaks but is not shown while speaking or that a voice tells or comments on the story.
Focus – the human eye is drawn to what it can see best.
Panning, tilting, zoom, tracking shot,
editing, composition
http://www.schuleplus.de/Englisch/films/f-analys.htm
Mise en Scene
Lighting
Sound, Soundtrack and Music – Diegetic Sound, Non-diegetic sound
Kinetoscope – The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
- Print out three images of cinematic device
- Sketch design of your cinematic device
Initial sketch ideas exploring different concepts:
Developing first concept of focus and exploring design:
Fav movies – why are they your favs. Break down the cinematic elements
- La la land
- Grand Budapest Hotel
- (tv show) Ratchet
Wednesday:
Site visit with cinematic device –
My device was a neon green piece of acrylic, sanded on one side to obscure the transparency. Leaving a small window in the centre I used this device to bring focus to the site.
As I began to observe the site through my device I noticed I could play with the smooth side of the acrylic and the sanded side to get different results of what i was photographing. You can see this in the pics of the ‘Everybody’s’ sign.
I was originally going to just use clear acrylic but I had some of the green lying around the house and i’m really glad I used that instead. It created a lovely cinematic filter in itself.
Shiny side facing the camera. 
Matte side facing the camera 
I was able to use my device to look through as well as to reflect off of to create some really interesting views.
Spatial Fabrication 