FIELDS & FRAMES: Briefing and Film Experiments
During our first meeting with Vicky we were introduced to the project and told the following:
Our Assessment criteria for the unit:
- Technical procedures and production practice's
- Reflective, innovative engagement with practice
- Professional working practices
- Effective research and production planning
- Awareness of audiences, contexts and networks
The unit is about challenging the boundaries of production, and is aimed to experiment with different forms.
Its good to work from experience, but its also good to think of doing things with a little. Try not to overcomplicate things. Start from the simple and then build on that.
Use new and innovative technologies or apply existing technologies in a new and innovative way.
Its also important to critically see your own works.
Theory and practice should be in close relation with each other.
Books: "film art phenomena" & "expanded cinema"
Overview of next sessions:
- Perspectives and positions
- Materials and physicals
- Portraits
Video: "TV interruptions - Tap" by David hall
The film appeared quite self aware towards the space that it would be shown in, trying to make it seem as if the TV set was a water tank. The water consumes the screen much like the screen consumes the audience. It is a piece created to disrupt the normal pattern of viewing TV programmes and not being aware of the TV set itself, and tried to point out the TV by repurposing it as a different object.
Experimental and expanded cinema
- Content shaped by materials & technologies
- experiment = challenge the industrial and the commercial
- exposure/ speed/ focus / celluloid itself / surface / lens 1 printing process
- field & frames
- smallest more merits of screen technologies
What is expanded cinema?
Its about being aware of the technologies behind the film, such as the projector.
Think about playing around with different games, don't be too concerned with rectangular frames.
Film:
"Dresden dynamo"
The sound from this film seems to be generated by the film itself, as if a record player needle is reading the film as it passes through the gate.
" Night sounding "
Very interesting rotoscoping and animation, uneasy sound design.
"Turbulent" shirin neskra
Installation: "in as much as it is always already taking place"
"Horror film" by Malcolm Le Grice
Youtube: Terry oursler | art in progress | reserve channel
There have been mixed opinions about the mix of old and new media. Marshall mc luhan stated that it would be a violent vlahs whereas dick Higgins said that intermediate conceptual fusion whereby ele!ents of different media are brought together and build a new form that is not the sum of its parts but the convergence of a third form
Reflections:
Its been interesting to see how people have tried to mix various types of media and try and expand on the normal. Allot of the techniques stood out to me such as animation, projections and sound. Terry oursler stood out quite allot cause of his style. Night sounding had some interesting visuals and turbulent had a really strong concept.
During the second part of the lesson we were asked to experiment with various film strips, and we were asked to play around with scratching, marking, dipping in paint, cutting and splicing and other techniques. The result was an experimental film roll that featured all of our work:
