Showreel Stalker.

Zona:Graphics. Showreel.

Showreel/storyboard for "Zona.Graphics"

Showreel example.

Factory Fifteen "Speculative Landscapes"
http://factoryfifteen.com/7936/151946/home/speculative-landscapes

Found.Gif

Found this amazing gif. Kinda fascinating.

Pity, but i lost the gif i've seen from this photo.

Liverpool.2013

My try at stop frame animation.
The video shows sudden snow at 6am.

ZONA. Graphics.

The subject of this video - graphics.
It manifests itself in contrast between black and white surfaces, the speed of time lapses, the delicate lines of branches, creating the metaphysics of the zone - such a place you wnat to see, but cannot visit, except on the screen.

I had a feeling that this video doesnt make sense. But it does have a subject, topic, focus - graphics.
It is a part of a bigger picture: every video shows one aspect of the zone; together they create a bigger picture.

Tarkovsky part.

My edited version of 'Stalker'. I focused only on the Zone's features. Kinda cut it short.

Analysis so-far.

What i wanted to achieve?

Erase the boundaries between the fantasy and real; between the 2d (film) and 3d (reality).

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2 screens:

1) what is Tarkovsky to me

     • fiction

     • past + unreal

     • set in stone

2) what is my work?

     • location, site

     • present

     • ever-changing

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Now to further investigate the link - 1) set in stone, and 2) ever-changing.

1) unchanged

    images -> almost painting

2) always something to add

    visualisation -> object+drawing (pic. below)

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For someone, the location we currently occupy - is the absolute reality.

But if we apply Existentialism, then the site can become anything - 

this means it becomes anything that I imagine it to be - 

it becomes Zone.

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What is "to erase the boundaries"?

It's a step-by-step process:

1) i imagine it

2) i find the site/location that match my thinking

3) then my visualisation materialises.

I only need to confirm the concept - that it is a Zone - for someone it's a place N (with a certain position and name), but for me it's a Zone (completely blurred in the space).

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What was my sacred wish?

If i say the task of the Zone was to grant the wish of a person, then my wish was to create a Zone, and make people believe in it's existence.

That was the aim of my project.

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I tried to make some kind of a plan for the future development of my work. Still, it can change drastically in time.

1) take footage:

     - feel the flow

     - beautiful / interesting places

     - catch the eye

     - techniques

     - details / objects

2) montage:

     - create the flow

     - make a story

     - directing video

3) create zone:

     - create its story

     - story of a space

     - who / where / what / etc.

4) place on map:

     - locate used sites on London's map

     - figure out what needed or not

     - scale it for comfortable use

5) make model:

     - based on my montage

     - how i imagine it fall together

     - detailed

6*) Visualisation

     - retake the model

     - create extra video -> how the model works as a footage

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Small brainstorm about what i imagine Zone to be or it's features / life in general.

Zone:

     - gloomy

     - modern

     - alive

     - still

     - empty

     - long

     - down to earth

     - low height

     - macro

     - dark / shadows

     - spacious

     - freedom

     - large

     - open in a closet

     - easy to spot

     - mystery

     - exploration

Life:

     - quiet

     - still

     - slow / fast 

     - unnoticed

     - hints of something more

     - dark -> grey

     - colorless

     -  ever changing / ever still

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The script is the location.

The actions are not posed.

The very location is dictation the flow of a shoot, the behaviour of random people.

Tarkovsky once gave a definition of a film - it's a "captured time".

That means that the characters are not necessary, what really matters - is the time and place.

How something (location or mother from 'Mirror') changes in time.

What matters is the object of sighting, be it a place or a person.

Because it's Spatial Design, the presence of characters is not necessary, and the subject of surveillance is the space itself.

It would be good to produce such a video that shows the transition of time, be it a rainy April's evening, sunny May's day, morning's mist, night's stars, etc.

Any changes in location (rubbish, windows, graffiti, etc.) shows the lapse of time. [not sure if it's needed]