SCST2009 - Experimental Screens

Below are some resources for the Experimental Screen Unit

A set of Moiree Patterns to be used for Projection/Visual Trickery

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In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

Francis Ford Coppola decided, as both an homage to film history, and as a dramatic and thematic narrative tool, to completely avoid CGI and only use 'in camera' effects, such as rear- and front-projection, backwards filming, multiple exposures, and shadow play when making 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'. A fascinating look at old filmmaking techniques.


Moment

"Moment" is the audiovisual component of Joachim W. Strand's Master Thesis 'The Cinesthetic Montage of Music-Video: Hearing the Image and Seeing the Sound' (Curtin University, 2006).

The video is a 24-minute visual exploration of an experimental musical piece. It is therefore not a music video, if music video implies a piece of video made to accompany and illustrate a song for advertising and commercial purposes. Rather, it is a music-video, a visual interpretation of a piece of music, conceptualised, produced and put together so that the flow of images would resound and echo the music.

Composer Brett Mabury's musical piece is a recording the 18 Swan Bells of the Perth Bell Tower, that was used as the basis for his exploration of spectral music. The video is an attempt to interpret the finished piece and produce a visual echo. The flow of sounds serve as the emotional, sensory and conceptual starting point for the visual exploration. 

Moment - Excerpt 1 - "Dripping Leaves"


Moment - Excerpt 2 - "Colour Drops"


Moment - Excerpt 3 - "Tree Zoom"