User:Inge Hoonte/Notes 10/10

Lena

Develop previous set design and play of Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, into a 10min film. More opportunities for camera placement and angle, and therefor audience experience.

Response to 5 QUESTIONS: 1 What is going to be my role?

2 Is the room going to change during film, if yes, what/how?

3 What's going to happen betw actors?

4+5 What will be perspective of camera? How will the film be presented to the audience? >> Aernout Mik's work and installations come to mind. He often uses single take, long, extended scenes, pan, in which everything, rehearsed happens and unfolds all at once. In the past, often multi-screen installations that formed a 'room' around the viewer. Last years what I've seen are bigger projections, on their own.

Eija Liisa Ahtila.

These ideas of camera angles and playing with the different narrative angles / characters within a story also makes me think of Sam Taylor Wood's 8 screen video installation 'Sigh,' which was on view at Kunsthal earlier this year. From The Guardian's Visual Art Review: "Taylor-Wood's video installation, Sigh, features members of the BBC Concert Orchestra, playing Anne Dudley's specially commissioned score - without their instruments. Rather than render the music oddly incorporeal, this makes us focus more on what musicians do - the clarinettist wriggling his lips; a violinist's worried eyes tracking the conductor; the concerted ballet of gestures. It is grounded, compelling human drama. The artist of the floating world has finally landed on something worthwhile." The audience is in the middle of the room, able to walk up to the screen, and witness several sections of the orchestra 'at rest,' while other silently play. Video here