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
mobility is my key variable in this experiment.
Questions:
- How much impact does movement have on a scene?
- How does the dance with the camera change the result or emotional resonance of a scene or object?
- What message or feeling can a cinematographer translate through movement/stasis?
- How does movement alter the message? What is added and taken away.
Method
- Shoot the same controlled scene multiple times with different camera movements.
- Scene examples: still life, non-space, dialogue between two actors, random persons on street.
- Potential stabalization tools: Tripod v gimbal v handheld v mononpod v camera taped to random objects v etc.
- Camera options: consumer DSLR v. phone v. go-pro.