Again and again.
While watching those films, you might play a bit with the way you project them:
- try watching the whole film (or parts) without the sound (you will then be able to really focus on the image, the visual rhythm)
- cover parts of the screen with paper: half, 2/3 (especially appropriate for 2046)... Doing so, and finding the right dimension(s) will make you focus on the framing of the film,
- play the sequence frame by frame (save screen-shots), repeat, play backwards etc.
In a nutshell be experimental even in your watching in order to de-construct the chosen film or sequence.
As Bom found out, those 3 films can be understood as a series. It is however not a necessity and you can completely appreciate one without having seen the others.
But they do share plots, intrigues and technical resolutions (and evolution) that deserve to be explored!
Those films are extremely rich, not only in terms of the very-well constructed plots (actually not complicated despite what some of you may think at first sight - watch them over and over again!), the wonderful mise-en-scene, the cinematography (colours, camera movement, framing etc.) and also the editing.
Time is an important factor to consider. Time and movement.
In this first phase, we are looking for a concept, a vocabulary and a grammar for you to develop the house project from, keeping in mind the specificity of our site, which we will approach during the second phase of the project.
You might identify a film sequence of particular interest to you.
Again you can also find a sequence repeated, re-interpreted throughout the 3 films, or a sequence ending in one and starting in another etc., or again study the overall plot structure, or the way both actors and characters appear and disappear in the 3 films - mapping out their connections).
We are asking for 2-dimensional drawings analysing and expressing the qualities you identified in the film - you can also develop your ideas and analysis in models.
Using, and somehow perverting the nature of, architectural drawings (plan, section, elevation, axonometric or isometric projections) to satisfy this purpose is strongly recommended.
You can also think of it as an hybrid between traditional architectural and filmic drawings.
This phase is quite short - the more and the earlier you will start producing the better.
Read the brief again and see you all on Friday with your work!
