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FILM BOOKLET REPRESENTATION P30027 2014 GROUP 18 AUSTEN SCOTT JAMIE CRAPNELL MAARTEN MUTTERS MOHD NURHUARI YAHYA RACHEL JONES SHRAVAN VAIDYANATH SITI AZMI
The presented film depicts our interpretation of how the intervention could perceive the world. The film provides the viewer with a framework and perceptive point of view, but leaves room for interpretation to implement their own personal and imaginative reality. The first scenes of the film represent the creature’s struggle to make sense of all the first impressions of being born in the world, it starts with the search for what is black and what is white and continues with the observation of natural textures, urban textures and objects; all necessary elements in order to see things in context. The story ends with the creature’s death by an overwhelming amount of information and over-saturation. The film contains two main themes; the learning process and the overall experience of what is like to be the creature.
The creature is born inside the mound. The first scenes represent the journey of it leaving its birthplace and the first glimpses of the trees on top of the mound.
It proceeds to the urban setting, by analysing first its textures and objects it is able to make sense of a more contextual picture. This represents the progressive learning curve of the creature that starts with the details and slowly continues to a more detailed and comprehensive overall image of the city.
The creature’s first nightexperience contains an overwhelming play of lights and moving objects. Passing buses and cars, traffic lights and people are to be recognised when the scenes are studied carefully.
The model and the film both share moments where the same artifact can be seen. A telephone box, a book, and a blue car are specific examples. These glimpses highlight the connection between both representational methods. A film that show the experience of a creature seeing an object in a fundamentally abstract and unrecognisable form and a model showing the same artifact after it has digested and analysed. The digestion of a book is animated with use of analog and digital techniques. By freezing a book, recording the defrosting process we created a timelapse of our creature’s digestive system.
In the final scenes, the highly detailed images of the creature’s perception of the city are overlayed multiple times in order to represent the intense experience of its extensive gathering of information throughout its life that has come to an end. It can simply not digest any new experiences and finds his final resting place in the middle of the city.
To emphasise the experience of our concept, the film was projected using two projectors on several layers of translucent fabric and the perceiver was wearing a white overall, to become part of the projected experience. This generated a large amount of layers that depicts the complexity of the present-day city. Every viewer’s path through the fabric of our projection is an individual experience and emphasises the sensori-emotional experience of the creature’s experience of its journey through the urban fabric.
An abstracted musical composition supported the intense depiction of the creature’s life. The transformation of a digitally edited film, projected and filmed again, softened the footage and made the film a true experience.