[csaa-forum] ***SPAM*** UNSW Media Seminar

[James Donald]

UNSW Media Film & Theatre Seminar
Wednesday 18 October
5 p.m. Webster 327


Vanishing Point
Spatial Composition and the Virtual Camera

Mike Jones
Powerhouse Museum

"Fictional cinema, as we know it, is based upon lying to the viewer. 
A perfect example is the construction of cinematic space."  Lev 
Manovich

This paper examines new aesthetic modes of cinematic space. 
Specifically the paper will examine the Virtual Camera, derived from 
computer generated 3D graphics and layer-based motion graphics, as a 
construct for spatial composition, scenic depiction and viewer 
immersion that possesses distinct and unique qualities of engagement. 
Under influence of the Virtual Camera, at once both a hybridized and 
re-mediated means of moving image acquisition, cinema is shifting 
from a long established mode - the duopoly between composition in the 
frame and the staging for the camera, to a new mode entailing a 
composition of space and a staging of the camera.  The paper will 
examine the Virtual Camera in the framework of four key cinematic and 
narrative concepts - Diegetic positioning; Mediated and Unmediated 
engagement; Immediacy and Hypermediacy within the process of 
re-mediation as well as Diegesis and Mimesis in narrative condition. 
This examination will also scrutinize the impact of the Virtual 
Camera on production process and conceptual assembly of cinematic 
media.

Mike Jones is a media producer, writer, journalist and educator. He 
has written two books on cinema and software, pens monthly technology 
reviews for Videocamera magazine and currently serves as manager of 
the Vectorlab digital media studio at the Powerhouse museum.

-- 
Dr James Donald
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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