Description
Why do we associate Tokyo with 'future', or Paris with 'love', or London with 'victorian'? Our perception of places is shaped by how we see them in fiction - from analogue compositing techniques such as shooting through matte paintings on glass and moving backdrops, to digital workflows of 3D camera tracking and set extensions, cinema has always embellished and augmented our immediate surroundings for the sake of story. From 'Gone Girl' to 'The Grandmaster', film environments combine real locations with artificial transformations to create hybrid spaces which exist only on the screen, but which have an immense impact on our cultural understanding of the real world. How can we harness this potential to design worlds which actively claim narrative, emotional, and cultural contexts for themselves?
In this seminar we will create short film pieces which integrate digital designs into real footage, working with both static shots and moving cameras. We will learn digital compositing using