Our substitute teacher brought up some great questions today. The one that caught my ear the most was why would some one be so angry from watching D'Est that he would make a comment like that to a professor? Im going to stop myself from thinking about that question. Mainly because I fear that it will affect my grade if I dont make some sort of effort to not tangent off about weird topics that can be loosely connected to class. Anyone can bull shit there way through these types of classes if they really want to. I want more from this class.
So the question I will go after is "What would be the best way to show D'Est?"
Im really letting this one go so give me some room here.
My concept for showing D'Est consist of a screen about 10 feet by 10 feet (the screen size should make the people in the film 1.5 scale, based on the street panning shots). This screen will be mounted on a circular track with a radius of about 15 feet. The viewers, only about 10 at a time will stand in the middle of the track in a group standing manner. As the film starts the screen will be made to run along the track only when the shot in the film is tracking or panning. When a scene is still, the screen will stand still. The screen will move at a pace that matches perfectly the pace of the pan. This movement will give the viewer a sense of seeing through a 10x10 square, out to a world where they have no control over the corse of sight. Almost a "Being John Malkovich" kind of view.
I think by using this way of viewing you can evoke a crowded feeling and also keep the attention of the viewer by involving their motor skills and what not. Though I think it may be advantageous to shortening the viewing times from the full two hours to about half an hour. Not really sure about that I guess. But this is my perfect idea and in that little world no one says peep about showing separate shorter clips of D'Est.
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I find your viewing setup suggestion very intruiging. How do people come up with such interesting and creative ideas?? I liked the idea about the screen only moving when the shot was tracking or panning, though admittedly by the end of d'Est I was motionsick as it seemed to me that most of the second half of the film consisted of panning and tracking shots! Very creative, keep up the good ideas.
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