scene study
The magic of the moment: the power of the individual
to transform a space and create an event
We will begin the year with a study of a scene taken from Cinema Paradiso. In the scene Alfredo, the projectionist, moves a glass frame to reflect the projected image from inside the cinema into the square outside the cinema, where a crowd has gathered. In doing this he transforms the square, he creates a special moment in an everyday space.
Draw the magic of the scene, capture the action, the movement of the projection and the transformation of the spaces.
You will have to watch the scene over and over again. Take stills, collage them to recreate the spaces. Draw the physical spaces and their relationships to scale. Use your own judgment, your surroundings and places you know to estimate and draw a measured survey of the scene to scale. Draw your impressions, analyse abstractly.
You could document and explore: the camera movement / the relationship between interior and exterior spaces / the projected light / light and darkness / the movement of the projection / the 3 dimensionality of the projected light / the surfaces touched by the projection beam / trace the ‘positive’ and the ‘negative’ of actual and perceived space / the movement of the protagonists and the crowd / time and space.
Express your understanding of layers, time, and expressions in the scene. Experiment, study and test techniques to represent your observations through drawing and or model making. Allow your working lines, proportional rules, measurements & geometry to be included in the final drawings as an integral part of them.
Capture the magic of the moment in your drawings. Make it a beautiful and a comprehensive piece of work, which clearly demonstrates a creative and individual approach to drawing. Pay attention to line weights and study good draftsman ship. Challenge yourself, test, experiment and set the tone for the year.
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