Architectural History and Theory : Orientations
DAHO001
Task 1B: Film and Sequence
By William Clinton (3203863)
DAHO001
Task 1B: Film and Sequence
By William Clinton (3203863)
Part One: Think Through Doing
'How We Move Through The City' Film By William Clinton (2018)
Part Two: Research and Reflection
Today I would like to present my work of how I have used and manipulated the technique of using fragments of film that build a whole, in the area around UTS.
The film I research and sourced my inspiration from is ‘The Man With The Movie Camera’ (1929) by Dziga Vertov and his wife who edited the film Yelizaveta Svilova.
After studying this film I learnt that Vertov film lived by his manifesto which was: ““I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.
Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus, I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.” – Dziga Vertov, goodreads, Dziga Vertov Quotes, viewed 20/7/18.
From Vertov’s manifesto I explored and exaggerated similar techniques which gave the audience a view from the mechanical eye, a view you wouldn’t normally get.
In my film I have used a Panasonic GH4 camera and edited the film with the 'Adobe Premiere Pro' software. In my film I have used the song ‘Home’ by Dustin O’Halloran. The title of the track influenced my choice heavily as a lot of people call the city home. The track also works well with the film as it dramatises the small moments captured in the fragments and ties them in with the others to create a whole picture.
In regards to the Sequence of the film I started off by showing a large scale of a public space time-lapsed to give us a sense of a fast-paced city, I then used a panning shot through the corridor to bring us from the big picture into the smaller moments of everyday city life.
In between the fragments of people using the architecture and public space around them I have captured fragments of the juxtaposition of new and old architecture, I also incorporated the cranes to highlight the ever changing city that we live in.
I finished the film with a short fragment of a water feature and people walking through Sydney’s architecture. The choice of this last shot was to remind us that the city we live in started off being vacant land surrounded by water.
The film I research and sourced my inspiration from is ‘The Man With The Movie Camera’ (1929) by Dziga Vertov and his wife who edited the film Yelizaveta Svilova.
After studying this film I learnt that Vertov film lived by his manifesto which was: ““I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.
Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus, I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.” – Dziga Vertov, goodreads, Dziga Vertov Quotes, viewed 20/7/18.
From Vertov’s manifesto I explored and exaggerated similar techniques which gave the audience a view from the mechanical eye, a view you wouldn’t normally get.
In my film I have used a Panasonic GH4 camera and edited the film with the 'Adobe Premiere Pro' software. In my film I have used the song ‘Home’ by Dustin O’Halloran. The title of the track influenced my choice heavily as a lot of people call the city home. The track also works well with the film as it dramatises the small moments captured in the fragments and ties them in with the others to create a whole picture.
In regards to the Sequence of the film I started off by showing a large scale of a public space time-lapsed to give us a sense of a fast-paced city, I then used a panning shot through the corridor to bring us from the big picture into the smaller moments of everyday city life.
In between the fragments of people using the architecture and public space around them I have captured fragments of the juxtaposition of new and old architecture, I also incorporated the cranes to highlight the ever changing city that we live in.
I finished the film with a short fragment of a water feature and people walking through Sydney’s architecture. The choice of this last shot was to remind us that the city we live in started off being vacant land surrounded by water.
Bibliorgraphy
References
Film
'The Man With The Movie Camera',1929, motion picture, VUFKU, Dziga Vertov
Youtube Clip
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, 2013, Man with the Movie Camera (1929), Viewed 20 July 2018.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8>
Webpage
goodreads, Dziga Vertov Quotes, United States of America, Viewed 20 July 2018,
<https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/204978.Dziga_Vertov>
Song Used
Dustin O'Halloran, 2013, Home, Song, Youtube, viewed 15 July 2018,
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdbRRqUSeOo>
References
Film
'The Man With The Movie Camera',1929, motion picture, VUFKU, Dziga Vertov
Youtube Clip
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, 2013, Man with the Movie Camera (1929), Viewed 20 July 2018.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8>
Webpage
goodreads, Dziga Vertov Quotes, United States of America, Viewed 20 July 2018,
<https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/204978.Dziga_Vertov>
Song Used
Dustin O'Halloran, 2013, Home, Song, Youtube, viewed 15 July 2018,
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdbRRqUSeOo>
