…DAY FOR NIGHT CATALOGUE
Magazine/Magasin.
A walk-in or walk-thru magazine…a living periodical. Every month, the gallery changes. It is advertised, at newsstands, on television, and in other periodicals, with a repro cover image and masthead, but exists only in person…Readers may subscribe to it, and receive a discount…It is closed two days at month’s ending for set-up and reinstallation. Meanwhile, […]
Textworks.
How can the word “dynamic” apply to meaning? Perhaps we can create a context where we pre-visualize a setting – a site where the “interactive reading is to take place — and basing the rest upon a pre-history — namely, the user’s own back-story – he or she can assimilate new fiction as an ongoing […]
Rule 9. The over-arcing theme.
Sometimes, the theme of one’s work becomes apparent over the course of experimentation, or improvisation. Balance that, against: Can this somehow represent something which is greater as a whole, than as the sum of its parts?
Rule 8. Make it beautiful, but more importantly, make it plausible.
Can we make it look as beautiful as possible, without making it too beautiful?
Rule 7. Never underestimate the players.
Visit the links to the content, backwards and forwards. Is security important? How easily can they find you, and what would this do to the effect of the story you’re trying to tell?
Rule 6. Create a world around that.
With a fictitious character, there are so many questions surrounding that character and their world. What did they just do?
Rule 5. Revisit the backstory (and do it often).
If you were to provide an account of what happened later, and try to account for their motives, what would these be? For the overarcing theme of a film to resonate as the end credits roll, the director’s vision should appear to illustrate a principle beyond the simple summary of its parts. If a mystery […]