Category: Film
Negotiating futures. Design fiction
Swiss Design Network Conference 2010:
Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference addresses the questions of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of possible new futures is negotiated and realized.
Design Fiction, Negotiating Futures October 28-30, 2010.
Posted in Conferences, Film, Interaction design, Media, mediation,1 Comment on Negotiating futures. Design fictionCurious Displays
Curious Displays by Julia Yu Tsao
Posted in Film, Media, Ubicomp, video2 Comments on Curious DisplaysDenisa Kera & Jimmy Loizeau
Denisa Kera & Jimmy Loizeau: 18:46 in The Futurity Long Conversation.
Posted in Film, Narrative, videoAugmented (hyper)Reality
Augmented (hyper)Reality by Keiichi Matsuda
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.
A film produced for my final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.
A competent visualisation of an undesirable future.
Posted in Film, Information design, video3 Comments on Augmented (hyper)RealityCrossing Borders
A visualization of private spaces in public photography. A design probe on digital mannerism by choy ka fai
Via BERG.
Posted in Film, PhotographyTelling stories with interfaces
“But where does it go from here? Is this really just a micro-genre best suited to ads for internet companies? Or does the fact that we spend so much time on this stage our selves mean that it really can be the venue for more (and more kinds of) storytelling?
via Telling stories with interfaces « Snarkmarket.
Posted in Film, Information design, Interaction design, MediaParallel tracking and mapping for small AR workspaces
bq. AR in unknown scenes is always going to be difficult without a remote expert to annotate the map. Here, we restrict ourselves to finding a dominant plane in the scene, and then running simple VR/AR games on this plane: essentially, you can have little AR critters running around on your tabletop. At present, no attempt is made to exploit the map to e.g. find occluding geometry; this is an area of future work. (From Georg Klein).
I love how it goes in and out of register, and how it ‘picks up’ the registration from an initial set of objects. People will end up intuiting that AR works in certain ways “not around trees” for instance, or only in “static scenes”.
YouTube – Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces (PTAM) – extra.
Posted in Film, geography, MappingFilm books
Film Art
David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson. Classic textbook, required reading.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Sculpting In Time
Andrey Tarkovsky.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Time Within Time
Andrey Tarkovsky.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Kieslowski on Kieslowski
Danusia Stok, Krysztof Kieslowski. A thorough insight into Kieslowski’s process, thinking and ideology. Wonderful.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
The Art and Science of Screenwriting
Philip Parker. Essential reading for screenwriting, not just the usual Hollywood basics.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Film Architecture
Dietrich Neumann.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Audio Vision
Michel Chion. Essential for anyone thinking about the interaction between audible and visible.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Directing: (Screencraft Series)
Mike Goodridge.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors
Gabriella Oldham.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
The Director’s Journey: The Creative Collaboration
Mark Travis.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Making Movies
Sydney Lumet.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Film Directing: Shot By Shot
Steven Katz.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Directing the Film
Eric Sherman.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker
Jon Boorstin.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Narrative books
Hamlet on the Holodeck
Janet H Murray.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative
Mark Stephen Meadows.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Computers As Theatre
Brenda Laurel.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Interactive Acting: Acting, Improvisation, and Interacting for Audience Participatory Theatre
Jeff Wirth.
amazon.com
Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence
by Roger C. Schank, Gary Saul Morson.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Comics & Sequential Art
Will Eisner.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Graphic Storytelling & Visual Narrative
Will Eisner.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com
Interaction and narrative workshop
This lecture covers some specific ideas that are aimed at traditional designers or filmmakers that want to make narratives involving user/audience interaction.
It was first given at Channel 4 in London, to filmmakers on the digital animation Mesh Scheme.
Posted in Conferences, Film, Interaction design, Narrative, Television