Mobilising stillness
From database to story, via still and moving-image
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20207640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wyn Mason (University of Glamorgan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-162 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Media Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2753 • E-ISSN: 2040-0926 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jmpr.13.2.143_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2033947499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The article explores the concept of ‘database film-making’ (i.e. first compiling a creative database of images in order to later construct a narrative in postproduction, rather than following the more traditional pathway of film-making via scriptwriting), arguing that approaching a film from a database perspective can potentially increase its cinematic qualities. The article builds upon ‘Database as a symbolic form’ (2001) by Manovich, along with cinematographic writings by Kracauer, Bresson and Tarkovsky, and presents a schema for mapping a spectrum of film-making practice from script-based to database. The author takes his own short film Crossing (2008) — co-directed with film-maker/photographer Ian Wiblin — as a case study of an image-led fiction film. The film's database consisted of both stills and moving-images, which were juxtaposed in a variety of ways; the article reflects upon this methodology, listing the variety of techniques utilized and how the meanings generated could only have emerged from adopting a database approach to storytelling
Art · Database · Database design · Database schema · Information retrieval · Literature · Narrative · Storytelling · Visual arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |