IITheBarbican

Unlike the Brunswick, the Barbican seemed to have less affect in displacing its assertion within reality but rather re-exhibits itself through framing. The nature of the mise en cadre of the building within Andor, relies on framing the Barbican with realistic elements taking priority. The choices of leaving both complex structural forms as well as detailing such as its lamps within the foreground of the frame feeds into a larger understanding of the embodiment of the space, grounding its reality when the background is changed through visual effects into a futuristic cityscape.

In addition to the approach of filming spaces ‘as found’, after visiting the Barbican to recreate the images, I recognised how my images register a slightly different perspective of the scene. It can be noted that the camera used for filming was wider than my own however, the representation of the Barbican has taken a less symmetrical approach perhaps to follow a more natural perception of an “off-screen” space. (Fig.13) When placing the image frame of the Barbican onto my own image, the perception of a space beyond the screen is applied. The Barbican is re-framed through the visuals seen in Andor, which allows one to read the Barbican re-framed as a continuity, its realistic elements and complexity carrying through from the Andor frame into my own.