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First things first, props

Place: Kensington, London

When? December 1st to 5th 

Why? Hosting the event at the design museum will attract designers & people intrested in design to the film festval. The idea is for the audience to feel immesered in their enviroment while watching films and engaging in the festival.

Price :

5 Days £200

1 Day £50

Programme

The five days of the festival will be split into five sections.The idea is to look into all props starred in the films alongside or with the actors. Each day will show film snippets of the film when the props are used.

The content of the programme will include: ‘hand props’ ‘personal props’ ‘set props & dressing props’ & ‘specail effect props’

Hand Props- these are anything handled or carried by an actor. e.g food, weapons, 

Personal props are props worn or carried by a particular actor and issued to him rather than stored on the prop table. weapons, candels,

Set Dressing props  - include most obviously furniture. These are objects that add to the look of the setting, with which the actor interacts apons, candels, 

Set Props- consists of similar items, but which the actor doesn’t usually handle. Some set dressings are “practicals”, props like lamps or chandeliers that perform on stage as they do in real life.

Special Effects Props - are part of the prop department. That basically means any special effect that is not plugged in to operate ons, candels,

Ending Event & Exhibition

For the last day of the event there will be an exhibition showcasing some props from the films showed in the festival.

The will be a closing event in the evening including drinks, food and a photoshoot night of dressing up and reacting scenes using fake replicas of the props.

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Analysing the Design Film Festival

This are notes extracted from my presentation.

Where? Online Festival, in partnership with the Design Musuem.

When? The 11th of September to 1st of November

Who? The founders of the festival are Dr. Scholze, Dr Urlich and Dr. Midal. The design film festival has 5 core partners which they collaborate with to produce the Design Film Festival. The film festival itself is curated by one of the partners, Kingston University MA students.

What? The festival screens 21 films throughout the event. A selected jury chooses the finally 21 films to be screened from the 200 submissions.The shorts films shown are either films made by designers or films based on design.

This festival gives a great opportunity to demonstrate the importance of design in films.

The Schedule: 

The Design Film Festival begins with an opening speech from the three founders of the festival alongside three main short films. After the opening night they release two new short films every day.

What Events?

The film festivals USP is shown through each series of events allowing the narrative of film and design to expand. Demonstrating the importance of designers and giving them a voice. The programme of the festival also highlights the important of objects, sounds and environment within design. Alongside this they have an exhibition which also focus on design elements.

Object Stories: This section of the programme focuses on the design objects in the short films. Its an online collection of iconic designs, curated by a mixture of fashion designers to interior designers , graphic designers etc.

Sound Stories: This sections focus on a cinematic play-list curated by designers and composes.

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20.10.20

Frank Greys talk was specifically about how experiences can either be immersive or cinematic or both. Giving an example of this being seen within physical spaces, using projection and inner spaces. 

These are the notes I gathered from the talk. 

Cinematic experiences can be seen and used: 

Based on environmental factors

The medium of the film 

To have a sense of storytelling 

Creating physical spaces

An Immersive experience can be seen and used: 

Uses the senses

The space of concept

Artificial surroundings

Can be used as an art form 

Physical Spaces:

 Robert Barkers purpose-built 360-degree panorama 1793 - ‘Paronrama 1793’ - “ Panorama from greek translates to ‘pan’ which is (all) and hormam which is (view).

Louis Daguerre’s Painting ‘Holyrood Chapel’ derived the diorama for this Paris Theatre. Using paintings as visual elements of the story. 

A painting can immersive you in the same way as a cinematic experience. From the environment, structure and narrative colours it holds.

Brighton Aquarim, Eugenis Birch, 1827. The new space at the time, using gaslight and creating theatre elements. 

Projection: 

Projection is possible because of the projector.

The greek art of lights and shadows Athanaive Kircher, 1645

“A cinephile of ingredients for the projection” - A magic lanten. - The magic lantern becomes a storytelling image in 1890.  

Screen X (2015) - A 270-degree panoramic view - the use of five projectors. A multichannel. 

Video and sound installation - Bill Viola - ‘Fire women’ - an non-narrative experience. 

Inner-Space: 

An inner-space experience of ourselves, by ourselves - like reading a book. 

Peep shows

Stereoscope - 1861 - The sterograph (or steroview) 

Kinetiscope, 1894 - A single person 35mm film viewer. 

Moving image at home - 1955 - television

Mobile devices 

Virtually reality.

All of these notes look at how an experience can be manifested in a film festival.

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13.10.20

CineCity

CineCity is Brighton’s film festival founded in 2003 by Tim Brown and Frank Gray and is held annually in November for two weeks. In those two weeks, they host a film programme based on a variety of worldwide film previews, premieres and installations throughout Brighton venues and also explore the archive of cinema. 

The tag ling of  CineCity is ‘ Adventures in World Cinema’. Tim Brown my module teacher for the course explains how they build a strong connection with the film and venue taking the audience on its own adventure.  An example of this was in 2009 ‘Dive-in Movies’ when they hosted and re-imagined the prince regents swimming pool as its own cinema. The event showed many scenes of swimming pools from archive films, and the guest was immersive in the experience by turning up in 500 bathing suits! 

Taking this on board and exploring how a immersive experience can lead the audience in their own adventure, how can you incorporate this into your own film festival? 

My next blog will be looking into the book called ‘Coming to a festival near you’

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06.10.20  History of Film Festivals

The first class from the module, film festival, focused on the History of film festivals.  

The first film festival was hosted in 1932 at Venice by the President of Biennale, ‘Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata’. Now 80 years later it is known to be the oldest and most prestigious film festival included as one of the ‘Big Three’. The festival is now held annually in September open to the public and accredited visitors.

The following film festival was held in Cannes, France in 1946 after World War II, it was planned to start in 1939 however ‘Hilters’ invasion caused a horrific disruption in Europe. In 1946 was the beginning of the Cannes Film Festival known for being the most elite with only the celebrity guests being invited. The festival's audience is all genres and begins annually in May.

Alongside the big three film festivals is the Berlin International film festival hosted in Berlin, Germany called ‘Berlinale’. It is open to the public attracting thousands of thousands of people from all over the globe. It began in 1951 at the beginning of the cold war allowing people to see it as the start of the free world. Today it focuses on the cinematic exploration of the film in social issues and is known to be the most political film festival.

There are another two famous film festivals held in Toronto and Utah. In Utah, the festival is held annually in the winter months of January, open to the public with a focus on documentary scenes and short films. Starting 1985 they have helped many independent films gain recognition for their films and allowed them to reach a wider audience.

In Toronto, their international film festival is called Tiff. It is a five-day festival held in September attracting thousands and thousands of people annually. Tiff focuses on short films in a wide range of genres looking at the most engaging for the audience.

In my next blog I will be looking into ‘Cinecity’ Brightons independent film festival.