After making our cinematic devices, we did our first site visit. It was really interesting to see what everyone else had come up with and see them put their devices into action. I decided to use the suspended phone device first movie through the space (below).
The first time I passed through Fort Lane the phone was spinning too much (below).
I then adjusted my grip on the nylon string and the way it attached to the phone so that the string connected to two points on the phone and I was holding either ends of the nylon in two hands. This ensured the phone was more stable, stopping it from going into a spinning frenzy.
I found the angle very interesting because it made me experience the site in a different way. The movement of the camera was interesting because it felt like the camera was scanning, looking from side to side.
I then used my water effect half pipe device in Fort Lane (below).
The images created by this device were very interesting. The bold strikes of colour in the space such as the lighting tube above the lane and also the sharp straight edges of the tall buildings against the blue sky made for some really interesting and beautiful reflected images. The images have this lucid psychedelic feel about them. I really like the effect this device made and was pleasantly surprised.
I then used the reflective kaleidoscope inspired tube to document the site (below).
I played around with having a focal point at the end of the tube as well as challenging the lens of the camera by positioning the loose reflective film edge directly in front of the camera. The result were really interesting and euphoric but it didn’t really scream any inspiration for further development or exploration.
The last physical cinematic device I bought to the site was the reflective half pipe (below).
I noticed that this device had a similar effect of the water reflective device bit the reflected images weren’t as crisp. This is because the film had been stuck directly to the card which altered its surface. Although I found this interesting, I felt the images didn’t have as much depth as the other half pipe design.
For my final device I took a variety of photos of and around Fort Lane, documenting the space to allow me to create a collage. I decided to do the collage by hand because it gave me the ability to be a bit more free with the placements and overlapping of images and I wasn’t constricted by digital tools. I printed out a selection of my photos and cut them out. I wanted to keep the rectangular frame the photo had been taken in rather than cut out shapes because the idea was to use multiple frames to describe a place. The collage was a lot more structured in this respect.
I begun with creating a collage of multiple spaces in and around the site using a series images from one space. The aim of this was to use images of multiple angles and viewpoints of a space and collage them together to create an abstract yet wider understanding of the space outside of the frame.
Playing on the idea of fictional space, I also decided to use some of my photographs and draw a fictional world around them.
This explored how when we see a space displayed to us in a frame in film, we subconsciously generate ideas of how the space is laid out beyond the frame. I really like how this turned out but I think i could have been more dramatic to exaggerate a sense of fiction.
When making my first collage I didn’t put any consideration into the layout of spaces and their relationship to each other on the page. As decided before the site visit, I wanted to create a birds-eye map of Fort Lane and its surroundings using the photos I took on the day to show the relationship between the spaces. While making my first collage, I decided to add dimension to the map by collaging multiple frames together, similar to my first collage.
The day of the site visit I walked around Queen Street, Wellesley Street, Symonds Street and Karangahape Road and documented interesting and intersectional sites. This collage includes a map of these sites, directing my movement inland, away downtown Auckland. Although I like this collage, it isn’t as effective as I thought it would turn out and doesn’t articulate my ideas of fictional space as well.
Spatial Design by Ciara 