The Un_Reel

So it's finally been released! Here is the final version of 'The Un_Reel', my final project for a Masters in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Enjoy!

Unit 15 Book

These are the layouts for my three double spreads in the Unit 15 Book for this year!

Un_Reel Part 01 Recap

These are a few images to refresh what your minds as to what part one of the film looked like.

The Un_Reel

The Un_Reel - London 1.0, The Simulacrum

It is finally finished! The Final edit of the film was completed for my masters in architecture hand in last week. The overall edit has combined the previous short London 1.0 with a newly produced part 02 that combine a total edit of 9minutes! The film will be premièred on the 25th June 2011 at Brixton Village as part of the launch party for the new Film and Animation Company Factory Fifteen

The following posts will be graphics from the production!

Exploded Diagrams

The Stairs

As he moves from the bedroom to the kitchen, convention would mean he moves through a threshold (normally a door) and enters into the next space. That space in the film is portrayed through two mediums. One which is synthetic to the character and one which is physically logical to us as the viewer of a fabricated film set.

Corridor Scene

The corridor is a transitional space that connects the various spaces such as the kitchen to the archive. Each door is placed with a indicator above that shows whether the rooms are occupied. The rooms are intended to ambiguous notion of each individuals personal dwelling/cell of synthetic space generation.

Towers Scene

After apparently leaving his apartment he enters the so called external world. Firstly he travels on the London Underground and then arrives at his stop. The stop then is revealed as a internal film set and constructed out of a selection of matte paintings and sets on trolleys that are moveable. This allows them to be switched and swapped to cater for the characters need of spaces on his journey to the archive. Once at this destination of the towers he travels up them into the building which the archive is situated.

Archive Scene

The archive is the space in which the character finds himself at the end of each day. The space will feature throughout the film however it will only be features briefly in the beginning. The rationale behind this space is to provide a storage space/archive for each individual to place their personal logbook of spaces that they have remembered and imagined. Once the personal logbooks are there they are reviewed and processed by the synthetic space generators inorder to program the production of spaces for each individuals personal life and experience of their imagined spaces.

Initial Storyboard

Along with the posts below this is the initial storyboard that I have designed. It has helped me establish a starting platform for the development of spatial concepts and ideas which at this time are steering towards some kind of critique of the blend between modernist architecture and filmic techniques of early 20th century cinema and also how this can be transposed into the future through an individuals perception as informed by his recollection of the past.

In terms of the rhythm of the edit I think it is important to produce a cyclical feel to it through repetition. What needs to be developed is the relevance and significance of each space as architectural and physiological spaces. They range between sterile/haphazard spaces in that, within the narrative they are highly polished and simultaneously they are completely low cost and fabricated through stage production methods.

This exposure/reveal must occur on screen, in ear and through the portrayal of the characters mundane existence with in the real world…..and his imagined fantasy world of escape.

The Initial Spatial Plan

This outline spatial proposal is something that I have been formulating over the past week. It began with an iteration as posted a few days ago and has now developed into this. The idea behind this was to try and develop a series of spaces that would feature in the film. I wanted all of these spaces to draw some sort of connection from the spaces that precede and follow them. One of the main points is that the spaces would all be constructed as temporary representations of spaces that we can usually associate with quite comfortably. Due to the temporary nature of these spaces they have started to be realised within a much larger spatial volume which at this moment in time is not fully defined, probably some sort of infinite warehousey space/tower block that is situated in what used to be London.

Preliminary Ideas for Thesis Film

Overview of Reconfigured London

At the halfway point in the film, there is an establishing shot. In contrast to an establishing shot being presented at the beginning of the film it is positioned half way as a sort of reveal of the 1st half and a establishing shot of what is yet to come. It portrays london a very different to how we think it may be. THis therefore sets up the rest of the sequences to follow.

Renders from the Film London 1.0

These few shots come from the 1st half of the film and show a developing strangeness in that objects and fragments from 'Jed's' mind start to appear and become4 more and more apparent to him as he visualises the places of London he thinks he knows so well.

A Few Final Renders from Film - 33a

These are two shots from the interior spaces created in hte film 33a. It is a slight parody on my own activities during the week that we were asked to make the 3D modelled film. I found myself so engrossed in experimenting with the 3D modelling program that I decided to make the film as I felt.

Warehouse Studio Production Drawing

Once 'Jed' completes the transition, between the confines of his domestic space and the synthetic space of his imagination, two spaces await him. Beginning in the warehouse space, it is unveiled to him that what he may have perceived as real space is actually constructed out of flat planes that simulate built form and therefore construct the world as he knew through artifice.

The first space is the foreground of the warehouse which is at a scale that falsifies the scale of Oxford Circus so that it could fit the physical and spatial constraints of the space that houses the overall production design.

As the exploration continues into his synthetic space, he finds that the scale of the environment has warped and increased to that of the real world.

This warping and growth signifies the effect that his imagination is having of his mental state of mind in that what is generated within his mind becomes evermore real.

Opening Sequence Drawing

Capturing the main moments in the film, this drawing represents the moments at which the mind of Jed slips into his synthetic creations of urban landscapes induced by his consumption of film and the perceptions he builds up of filmic geographies.

Tight Face Shot

Close Up from Richard Young on Vimeo.

THis shot begins to show how the obsession with film has taken a grasp on his life and perception of life.

Character Wide Shot

Front View Wide from Richard Young on Vimeo.

Establishing the character and his obsession of watching film.

Centre Point from Richard Young on Vimeo.

As the ships pass over Centre Point the shots become tighter and focus in on specific landmarks and how they have been affect by the production of London. As this was an initial test I have not yet worked into the actual physical state of Centre Point yet but will do so in the next couple of days.

Test 02

Primrose Hill from Richard Young on Vimeo.

This shot again portrays London how many people visualise it whether it be through 1st hand experiences or visual representations.

Test 01

City of London from Richard Young on Vimeo.

This is a test of the London Transportation Ships approaching the city as a fleet. It encompasses the essence of London in that the horizon is 'that horizon' taht everyone knows and recognises.

More Location Shots

Some more location shots that I took when out taking footage for the few tests that follow this post.

Animatic

Animatic from Richard Young on Vimeo.

This is the initial animatic that I have produced that has the same explanation as the storyboard previously posted.