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Making a Camera

Deconstruct to define "the optical device"

What is seeing?

- internalizing - intuition - feeling

What is representing?

Discussions about the Camera

Terms:

film

cinema

moving image

motion picture

video

Questions:

How does the camera shape what you make?

"Digital makes me want to shoot very sharp." (Sonia)

"When I make pictures I don't care if they are sharp or not." (Marieke)

shape of the camera

position of the viewfinder

- Is the viewfinder a division between you and the world?

- Sometimes the world is full of people. Sometimes, trees.

- How has it been to be without a viewfinder?

sound of the camera

weight of the camera

- "Carrying that at 6am in London in February. No more of that!" (Susanna)

"Where does the camera begin and where does it end?"

Experiments

Devise an experiment to test an assumption you had about the camera.