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== Experiment ==
== Experiment ==


I choose mobility as my key camera parameter in this experiment.  
'''mobility''' is my key variable in this experiment.  


Questions:
Questions:
* How much impact does movement have on a scene?   
* 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?  
* How does the dance with the camera change the result or emotional resonance of a scene or object?  
* How much infuence does a cinematographers intutive response when filming a scene count?  
* What message or feeling can a cinematographer translate through movement/stasis?  
* Tripod v gimbal v handheld v mononpod v camera taped to random objects v etc.  
* How does movement alter the message? What is added and taken away.


Method  
Method  
* Shoot the same controlled scene (could be still life, stagnant space, dialogue between two actors, random persons on street) and shoot it with different camera movements.  
* Shoot the same controlled scene multiple times with different camera movements.
* Observe what impact does it have. How does it alter the message? What is added and taken away.
* 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.

Revision as of 12:58, 12 October 2021

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.