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Imaging Lab: Study of Experimental Film and Film Makers

Imaging Lab: Case Study of Experimental Film and Film Makers

This case study and research will be on experimental films and film makers, and apply it on ideation for our project on Noise Pollution at night among neighbourhood. This is a school related project. 

Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
This short film focuses on body movement and dance choreography. It is very simple and has np speech or vocal and no story to it, but its transition from the forest, where she started out going around the forest cleverly, creating a loop feeling. She then move to the dancer's focus, and used the dancer's leg lowering into a transition from forest to the room, followed having a wide shot to show the dancer is in a new room.

Next, when the guy started dancing around, she transition the dancer's next step with the next shot which was a museum's floor. The transition was almost flawless as the ground of the room and museum was similar, until she panned up to reveal  the new location where the guy is dancing further in the museum

When the guy returns closer, when his feet stamps on the floor to stop, she times it with a close up shot of the guy's face and expression, and what may seem like its a slow motion of him spinning, which slowly increases his speed of spinning.  She even had a Extreme Close up shot of his face, spinning before the close up on his feet spinning which is actually shot back in the room. 

Followed by when the dancer was about to leap after spinning in room, she transition into him jumping but in forest this time. She had multiple extreme close up shots of the dancer, like his face, his legs, his body and hands, repeating the shots. And when the dancer landed, it was a different shot and location, it was not the same shot or location from his jump.
I personally like filming of actions and movement (like dancing) along with smooth transition. Unsure if she is the first person who has experimented with this style of filming based on the choreograph dancing, but this style has been very important and popular and seen in a lot of Korean music video where dancing exists and smooth transition and story telling is very important in it. 

I feel like this style, where there is no talking and just relying on just movement and transitions, applying it onto our project is viable as our project is noise related, and instead our film can be depicting the noise as actions and movement. The smooth transition between houses and neighbourhood could also be used to highlight the different houses. We could also experiment transiting into different people of age, gender and race along with their movement.
Maya Deren: Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)

Imaging Lab: Study of Experimental Film and Film Makers
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Imaging Lab: Study of Experimental Film and Film Makers

Imaging Lab: Case Study of Experimental Films and Film Makers

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