Analysis

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

The Relevance of Science Fiction
Interview with radio ABC Future Tense program on SciFi Cinema and the Australian film industry.

Camera in Motion
An examination of the Moving Camera; mapping a conceptual framework for filmmakers to articulate not just How but WHY to move the camera.

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

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.

The Short Film is dead
Is it time for emerging filmmakers to get a new calling-card? 

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