This week’s lecture and reading revolves around the concept of thinking film – “how do you encode all the other elements of cinema [composition, mise-en-scene, music and colour] into the frame itself?”  Daniel Binns talked about how when we frame, we essentially frame what we perceive the world to be. Using Dziga Vertov’s ‘The Man with a Movie  Camera‘ (1928) […]

Week 4’s reading and lecture revolved around Gilles Deleuze ‘Frame and shot‘ (2005) reading, where he talks about the frame as “containing the world”. Daniel Binns started off the lecture by saying that the idea of framing is to contain “the chaos of reality” – to contain the whole world within the borders of the camera. To show the […]

Here’s my motion-film activity, where I filmed three girls walking randomly. I was experimenting on the movement within the frame, aswell as of the frame itself. Although it’s a bit shaky, the actual inspiration for this sequence is from Bruce Isaacs’ The Ontology of Bullet-Time (2008) reading, where he talked about the bullet-time effect that’s used in The […]

In this week’s 3rd episode of “On the Frame”, Daniel Binns began class recaping on what he talked about the week before – colour, composition, lighting, and perspective in order to treat the frame as a visual art piece. He then proceeded to give a talk about what this week consisted of – “frame as […]

In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar Wai. (2000) In this week’s film session, we watched one of Wong Kar Wai’s film, In the Mood for Love. Few things I can say about this movie, besides an outstanding soundtrack, was the framing of each scenes, use of mirrors and long, narrow hallways, and the […]

  “iCue” This one of the shots I particularly liked. At the start, I was having trouble finding the perfect angle to capture this, but eventually it turned out pretty good. What can I say about this photo? I guess the fact that you can pretty much tell what’s happening from this photo. You can […]

Well now that we’re all settled in nicely back to Uni after the 1st week, Week 2 was about getting ready for the workloads and assessments. On the Frame was no different. Daniel started the class off with a few more theory behind visual art, and the origins of cinema, and how framing doesn’t just show what’s […]