(Above image composited from projects by - Jeff Desom (Rearwindow Timelapse) + Davy + Kristin McGuire (The Icebook)
EXTRUDED CINEMA : ANIMATING SPACE OVER TIME WITH PROJECTION MAPPING
Mon 3:30pm – 6:30pm with Sean Healy at 100.5.8 ( contact : sean.healy @ rmit.edu.au )
This specialisation will explore how video projection mapping can be used to animate interiors spaces and transform built structures over time. In the process, we will make custom-made animations, videos and motion graphics, and investigate how they can be applied to generate atmosphere and modify spatial dynamics over time.
The aim of these investigations will be for students to design a projection mapped video installation which expands some of cinema’s conventions into three dimensions.
Course folder on RMIT Google drive (includes 3 x Assignment briefs)
RMIT Lynda Login (Join to access extensive, quality, video tutorials related to our explorations).
Each week, new reading, tasks and links will be listed below:
| Week 1: Course overview, analysing cinema | Week 5: Animation and motion graphics | Week 9: Installation Development |
| Week 2: Video editing and composition | Week 6: Projection Mapping | Week 10: Assessment #2 : Installation |
| Week 3: Video editing and composition |
Week 7: Projection Mapping |
Week 11: Editing, Animation, Colour Grading |
| Week 4: Assessment #1 : Proposal | Week 8: Installation Development | Week 12: Assessment #3: Video |
Readings / Texts:
“After the screen : Array aesthetics and transmateriality”, Mitchell Whitelaw, accessed Jun 2017
Film Analysis Guide by Yale University, 2002, accessed Jun 2017
“Survey of Alternative Displays”, Blair Neal, accessed Jun 2017
References :
Course links and notes posted weekly.
“What is projection Mapping?”, by projection-mapping.org
Precedents:
– Expanded Cinema from the 1960s onwards
See Gene Youngblood’s book on Expanded Cinema (and useful wikipedia summary of it ). Video: What is expanded cinema?
For Expanded Cinema in Australia – see Otherfilm (collective who focus on expanded cinema, and other forms of ‘expanded art’) and The Cantrills (at their own page, at wikipedia), Inner Sense on the Cantrills, Cantrills interview, Cantrills exhibition at ACMI (includes video interview).
– German Expressionist film from 1910 onwards ( overview 1 / overview 2 / wikipedia / video ‘essay’)
– Jeff Desom’s panoramic recreation of Hitchcock’s Rearview Window
– Davy + Kristin McGuire’s installation of Hitchcock’s Psycho
– Installations by Yannick Jacquet (Legoman)
– Installations by Romain Tardy
– A Forest of Projects: “projects and installations that involve projection, light or interactivity”
– Sound+Visual+Movement: “audiovisual interactive systems and hypersensory immersive media”
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