User:Aitantv/Camera

Camera

'You hear the dollars running through the camera' (David Fincher)

Etymology: 'In Camera' (in private) / Photography (light writing)

Proxy audience.

Something I must not drop.

A weapon. ‘I shoot people for a living’

A box that documents and fictionalises.

Memory recorder.

Selfie Creator.

Perspective obscura.

Surveillance inductor.

Extra limb.

Evidence collector.

Behaviour augmentor.

Performative spotlight.

Energy extractor.

Light-writer.

Selector.

Cropper.

Reality Curator.

Camera Features

• cost
• weight, dimension, mobility, maneuverability
• connectivity, connectedness
• sealedness (water / air / sand)
• resolution
• sensor size
• lens quality and (inter)changeability
• focal length (angle of view, all the way to 360)
• noisee-ness
• battery
• recording capacity
• sensitivity (light)
• dynamic range
• compression/RAW
• sound record
• frame-rate
• digital/analogue
• spectrum of light
• modulability or modularity
• stabilisation
• shutter speed (no rolling shutter)
• durability (environment, temperature etc.)
• cinematographer

Challenge

• Which camera feature would you like to question?
• What's the method of experimentation?
• How do you plan on documenting?

Give a brief 1 minute presentation proposing your research idea and process.

Experiment

m o b i l i t y is the key variable.

Questions:

• Inspired by the nimble cinematography of Anthony Dod Mantle, Christopher Doyle, & Emmanuel Lubezki, how much impact does movement have on a scene?
• How does the dance with the camera change the result or emotional resonance of a subject or object?
• What message or feeling can movement/stasis translate?

Method

• Shoot the same controlled scene/s multiple times with different camera movements.
• Scene: monologue to camera.
• Stabalization tools: tripod v mononpod v handheld v gimbal v fig rig v camera taped to random objects
• Camera: GX85 m43 sensor, 1080p, 24fps

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