Kyoko’s Final Project Proposal
I missed the class time, but here is my proposal.
Future Cinema I / Fall 2017
York University FILM 6507
Proposal for the Final Project
Kyoko Yokoma
Title: Tales of Fukushima
My final project is a multi-screen documentary about the aftermath of Fukushima nuclear disaster. It is an experiment to create an emotionally, intellectually and geographically immersive work in digital media. Using the footage I have filmed in Fukushima since 2014, this work combines some elements of the immersive world described by Scott Lucas –big idea, story, experience, and design –in a simple multi-screen cinema setting. [1]
As seen early in Man with a Camera by Dziga Vertov and followed by many others including Labyrinth Pavillion in Expo 67, multiscreen, montage and split-screen cinema formats have been considered experimental, and therefore, non-narrative. If story is a major factor for creating an immersive world as Lucas said, and if that is what a project aims to be, there should be no reason to avoid it. I will implement stories which the form would expand but would not completely deconstruct.
The multiscreen presentation consists of three screens placed in a U shape. Viewers will be mostly occupied by the narrative on the front screen while the other two long screens show landscapes, creating environment and space that would influence viewers but may not get full attention from them. The 5.1 surround sound will enhance the three-dimensional experience. The goal of the project is to make viewers “feel like a ‘jam’” in the world of music, which “happens as they take everything about the space in and as it begins to act on their eyes and minds.” [2]
[1] Scott Lucas The Immersive World: Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces (New York: Focal Press, 2013).
[2] Ibid., 93.