Future Cinema

second class collective thoughts + notes (white sheets)

Augmented Reality

What counts? Is it purely technical? Where does realism fit?

Want more!
What’s this?

Yes, please!
Yes, please
I want to know more

SPACE

I have no idea – i do understand space, but I am not sure about it’s relevance
Let’s talk about it!
Geo-location games/mixed reality/AR and space?
Important in filmmaking

GAMES
The last game i played was in 2002. We need a class where we simulate/design
Probably the only thing on the papers I think I know much about
All games are queer
The illusion of choice in games (Bioshockm, spec ops,)
Become so highly immersive/addictive
Does SIMS count?

IMMERSIVE
Doing an in-class experiment of immersion
Giving new perspectives
How do we think about immersion? Is it solely sensory or is it also affective/emotional?

TRANSMEDIA
Want to know how to do this well!
Gender
?
What?
Being able to distinguish multimedia production from transmedia
Want to learn more about non-linear storytelling

Would love to know more!

Wrote undergraduate thesis on the distinction between cinematic universes and transmedia universes (renee)
ALTERNATE REALITY

Knowledge production
Interested in this
Great for imagining alternate stories
Counter-narratives
Multiverse?
Very close to my thesis investigation – want to learn ways of using future technologies in my storytelling

PANORAMAS
Scenery? Wide shot
Interested!!!!
No idea – happy to learn more!
Would like to know more

WORLDBUILDING

Building worlds in mixed reality?
Relationship between imagined and real worlds
Very exciting potential – speculative
I’ ve been working on an indigenous futurism project set in the next 150 years – i year of worldbuilding with the NFB/ImagineNative Interactive prize – Cara

VIRTUAL REALITY
Definitely would like to know more
Its impact on more ‘adult’ entertainment
Have never used it
Know next to nothing besides that it exists but would love to know more
Want to learn more about how to use it – software/hardware/interface

DATABASE
Boring thing…
No, please god, no!
What about it?
Archives, big data
Live data/big data/social networks data/data policies and regulations in North America data protection

SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Like VFX?
Addictive
Great potential … with caveats
Would like to know more
Could use more infomration
Don’t know much
Same
Black mirror
More and more advanced (kind of scary)

Digital Poetics
Never sure what poetics actually means
YES
Very interested
Have never heard this term

Hardware/software
Know absolutely nothing
Possible prodcution-related hardware?
YES -esp. Aesthetics and theory around software <- YES
Mixed reality – is there anything else than _____
Suggestions for dance notation software is time: William Forsythe, Motion bank, Improv technologies DVD (I can also do this for my show and tell – Hannah
I don’t know coding and I think it would be great to do a crash course on that
Deep feels (faleels?)

EXPANDED CINEMA

Based on experiments? Ideology?
Longfrom? Playing with time? Transmedia convergence culture?
No idea. I guess it is 3d or 4d movies
YES – history

HOLOGRAPHIC
Fascinating
Deepfakes used as holograms/copyright
YES
Fascinating
I saw in movies
I’d love to learn more about holograms and 3D tech

INTERACTIVITY/INTERACTIVE
Interested
Don’t know anything technical
Take or leave
And its relationship with agency and storytelling structure
What qualifies as interactive?
The links between interaction and real action
Very interested
Interested. Interactive between AI or machine + human. And also between people.
Interested in building an interactive website for my indigenous futurism project
Want to know more

IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS/CINEMA/THEATRE

Super Interested
Building worlds/leading users through worlds
Very interesting
Documentary theatre
YES – suggestions: Steve Dixon History of Digital Performance
4D Interactive?
Very interested

SPECTACLE

Don’t know much about this
Very interested
Talk about spectacle!!
VFX
Yes – special/visual effects eaerly/proto/para cinema (theme parks)<- Yes
Suggest: Julie Turnock, article on Starwars FX + West Coast Experimental Film

EARLY AND SILENT CINEMA
Could use a quick history/background
Yes please
Would be great to experiment in VR
Inventive ways to work around the lack of sound to convey meaning
Where audience had more imagination over the story YES (see spectacle)

NETWORKED

Among people’s relations and communications
Interested in learning more
Can be used in teaching – interesting

Tags: brainstorming, fc2019

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