Fields and Frames - An Introduction

Introduction to Unit

Unit Criteria

• Technical Procedures and production practices
• Reflective, innovative engagement with practice
• Professional working practices
• Effective research and production planning
• Awareness of audiences, contexts and networks

Techniques

• Use new and innovative technology
• Apply existing technology in innovative way
• Critical historical and theoretical framework
• Moving image histories & digital futures
• Social themes (physical and biological sciences) 

TV interruptions (7 TV pieces) - David Hall

Tap

Running tap, see through tank filling up (side view). It appears like the TV is filling up, like its a container. Framed so that the tanks edges and the tap is related with the TV. Once the tank was full, the tap was removed. Then the tank started to empty diagonally. Illusion on screen, as once the tank is full and the tap is removed, you can not tell if you are looking at an empty screen or if the screen does in fact have something in it. It creates uncertainty. Directs your attention away from the fact that it has been filmed. It is very mysterious, depending on the audience it may be hard to read something from it. Especially it being broadcasted as an interruption to normal TV, it may cause confusion. Most people found it boring, because of mainstream hollywood movies we are bombarded with heavy editing, sound and effects.

Experiment and Expanded Cinema

• Content shaped by materials & technologies
• Experiment = challenge industrial/ commercial
• Exposure/speed/focus/celluloid itself/surface/lens/printing process
• Fields and Frames
• Smallest increments of screen technologies 

What is expanded cinema?

• Multiple technologies
• Screens
• Bodies - uses bodies as surfaces
• Objects
• Live events
• More about creating a participatory experience
• The projector - projection as event, manually pulls film through, adapt/customise mechanism, interfere with shutter. You are aware of the technology. Brings you back down to the raw elements of cinema, light, dark and shadows. 

Night Sounding - Kayla Parker

Manipulated and created new images on the film itself. Creating colour and new shapes on already existing film.

Is as much as it is always already taking place

The simultaneity of the body within each frames. The audience is required to move around the space and engage with the work.

Horror film - Malcolm Le Grice
Used his back as the screen. Was quite different at the time. Utilised the texture/shape of the body. The shadows of his body created by the light of the projection, manipulates the changing colour on screen.

Tony Oursler

Intermediality

The form that I can choose is fairly open.

What the lesson has taught me
The area I am particularly interesting in is projection and using different surfaces to create illusion and texture. This includes several projections within an installation, and the audience having to travel through the piece for them to experience it.