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Month: April 2015

Brief 3 – Mid-semester Crit (Personal Project)

April 23, 2015George Leave a Comment

IDEA Title: Guild Hauntings /or/ The Brick Wall Format: Short Film/Creative-abstract Documentary/Historical Fiction Proposed length: 3-5 Minutes SYNOPSIS Viewers are led from behind a wall next to the staircase in Storey Hall and up the stairs, almost as if they… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 7

Video Experiment

April 19, 2015George Leave a Comment

Every Wednesday, I intern at Enamoured Iris, a video production company. Last week I had a play around with some of their equipment, using their video camera, tripod and shoulder rig. There wasn’t much to film outside so I just… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 6

Production Timeline: Week 7

April 18, 2015George Leave a Comment

I have begun to write a production timeline for the rest of the semester. At the beginning of each week, I will post a list of what I need to complete by the end of that week. Here is what… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 6

Guest Lecture – Paul Gough

April 18, 2015George Leave a Comment

Paul Gough spoke about sites of memory, posing a number of questions at the beginning of his discussion: – When does space become a place? (He suggested it is when a space is imbued or endowed with human presence) –… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 6

Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place

April 6, 2015George Leave a Comment

In her book “Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place”, Hornstein aims to ‘explore the relationship between memory and place, and ways in which architecture captures and triggers memory.’ (p.1). What immediately felt relevant to me was a question the author… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 5b

RMIT Urban Spaces

April 6, 2015George Leave a Comment

Martyn Hook and Chris White explain the development of RMIT’s architectural design, moving away from being closed off to “a campus integrated with its city”. This re-design has also solved a number of previous functional problems, from disability access to way… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 5a

Martyn Hook (Guest Lecture)

April 5, 2015George Leave a Comment

This week we had a guest lecture from Martyn Hook, an alumni of the RMIT Master of Architecture and an RMIT staff. He began by listing three aspects of space he planned to cover: genius loci, city and legibility. 1.… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 5a

Inspiration

April 1, 2015George Leave a Comment

I am studying one of my favourite films this semester: Mulholland Drive. I watched it again the other night and felt so inspired by Lynch’s cinematography that I wanted to share one particular scene (arguably the most important scene of… Continue Reading →

Ghosts & Space week 4

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