This week we began work on site transition models. My ideas so far are very much based around fictional space and how ideas of how a space, room, building, town or world is laid out are created by the audience through film. In terms of transition I am focusing on how transition creates a relationship between different fictional spaces. Through my first iterations of my models I am looking at how a transition can connect two fictional spaces and how this creates an idea in the audiences’ head.
This first model was inspired by the connection between two scenes. The tissue paper spheres are representations of two different scenes which are wrapped and intertwined with each other with wire.
This model is inspired by the straight cut between scenes as well as my water reflective cinematic device.
This design was an exploration of reflection through the harsh edges of triangles.
I then talked to Chris about my ideas and my lack of any particular type of film transition in mind. He gave me some good advice and showed me the match cut. This type of transition is sharp, concise and brief but through movement and colour choice, a connection and relationship is made between the two different scenes. I think this articulates my ideas well of using sets and locations to create a fiction space in the minds of an audience.
After looking at the match cut, I decided to base some conceptual models off it. I kept my model making broad and explorative because I didn’t have a particular style or idea I was dedicated to.
This is the first model I made inspired by the match cut. I used two materials of the same colour to show the drastic cut between the two while forming a relationship between them.
This model explores reflection again. The two planes are representations of two scenes, reflecting each other. They are connected through wire.
This model is an iteration of the previous model. It explores a less structured and looser connection between the two planes. There a less similarities show how two very different ideas can be linked through a match cut.
This model is another iteration of the two previous models. I hand stitched the card with nylon thread. I really like this concept of threading or stitching the two together.
This model is another exploration of the match cut through a different set of materials. The two pieces of material ate intertwined and connected with each other through the winding wire. This model doesn’t create many interior spaces and is quite flat.
This model is two suspended reflective cards that are connected by a line of nylon. The idea of this model is to show their loose connection through movement as well as them reflecting each other.
Spatial Design by Ciara 