![And here’s a ‘poster’ for the EMMEDIA-funded ‘film’ project I’m currently working on: 6Qin2C. This picture is kind of a major delve into my mind/personality/worldview—hopefully it doesn’t scare anyone off.
Meh, I might as well just go all out—here’s a [WIP] synopsis of the project too:
6 characters, 6 scenes, and, seen from afar, 1 film. But look closer—or even just look again—and you’ll find that’s not necessarily the case: this film isn’t just designing itself …it’s creating the universe. Follow the activities, conversations and anecdotes of six amusingly inquisitive minds to explore how choice balances with chance, and see, in the process, how this film’s spontaneous editing of its own formal properties (things like shot-framing, colour, duration, or even volume) not only mimics the processes underlying our everyday realities, but also demonstrates a new potential depth for digital filmmaking.
Using two cameras placed about eyes-width apart, each shot is captured from two distinct but related perspectives. Unlike regular 3D viewing though, the images don’t automatically combine to form a unified whole; rather, their differences are foregrounded by randomly alternating between the two. When combined with the constant flux of formal traits mentioned above, the result is a film whose core structure is both intentional and delicately sculpted, but whose outer, observable shell is as transient and hypothetical as quantum physics. In other words: what gets projected on screen is both precisely planned and entirely unpredictable—a collaboration with coincidence, say.
Deceptively simple, the narrative revolves around a set of friends as they meet in everyday experience; and through their informed yet casual discussion, each of their distinct personalities shines through. Whether enthusiastic or quiet, excitable or restrained, strange or charming—all present their own take on the world, and ultimately you can’t help but feel their views might just have some ‘thing’ in common with your own.
And, of course, the inevitable nerdy underside: Isadora, the wonder-program I’m using to coordinate all the randomness and real-time video-manipulation:](http://files.mismith.info/tumblr/photos/poster-1.1.jpg)
And here’s a ‘poster’ for the EMMEDIA-funded ‘film’ project I’m currently working on: 6Qin2C. This picture is kind of a major delve into my mind/personality/worldview—hopefully it doesn’t scare anyone off.
Meh, I might as well just go all out—here’s a [WIP] synopsis of the project too:
6 characters, 6 scenes, and, seen from afar, 1 film. But look closer—or even just look again—and you’ll find that’s not necessarily the case: this film isn’t just designing itself …it’s creating the universe. Follow the activities, conversations and anecdotes of six amusingly inquisitive minds to explore how choice balances with chance, and see, in the process, how this film’s spontaneous editing of its own formal properties (things like shot-framing, colour, duration, or even volume) not only mimics the processes underlying our everyday realities, but also demonstrates a new potential depth for digital filmmaking.
Using two cameras placed about eyes-width apart, each shot is captured from two distinct but related perspectives. Unlike regular 3D viewing though, the images don’t automatically combine to form a unified whole; rather, their differences are foregrounded by randomly alternating between the two. When combined with the constant flux of formal traits mentioned above, the result is a film whose core structure is both intentional and delicately sculpted, but whose outer, observable shell is as transient and hypothetical as quantum physics. In other words: what gets projected on screen is both precisely planned and entirely unpredictable—a collaboration with coincidence, say.
Deceptively simple, the narrative revolves around a set of friends as they meet in everyday experience; and through their informed yet casual discussion, each of their distinct personalities shines through. Whether enthusiastic or quiet, excitable or restrained, strange or charming—all present their own take on the world, and ultimately you can’t help but feel their views might just have some ‘thing’ in common with your own.
And, of course, the inevitable nerdy underside: Isadora, the wonder-program I’m using to coordinate all the randomness and real-time video-manipulation:
