Analysis

Articles examining the constructs, frameworks and paradigms of cinematic production; the nexus where technology and art meet to enable style, form and meaning.

Spaced Out
A video-essay examining the relationship between cinematic-space, sound reproduction and viewer awareness.

Camera in Motion
A detailed analysis of the moving camera and the presentation of a functional framework for filmmakers to employ.

Game Probe
The Game Probe series of video-essays explores thematic and conceptual ideas embodied in a selection of contemporary video games.

Collage, Montage, Juxtaposition
Looking closely at Motion Graphics and the visual ideas they construct and exploit.

Hearing the Elephant down the hall
Rethinking Mise en scene sound and space.

Shadows and layers
Video essay teasing out the nature of layered-space and the visual language of compositing.

Surround sound and the new spatial aesthetic
Psycho, Hitchcock and the Van Sant re-make.

SciFi Cinema: Genre, Tools and Patterns
Notes from a presentation on the SciFi film genre, introducing the key elements of SciFi.

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