User:OUK
Manouk Moreau
0889892@hr.nl
Week 1
First question from this course: why am I a maker?
Good question. Where did I find the ego to say: I’m going to make stuff that will make other people happy too? Well, happily for me there’re so many human beings on this planet, that there’ll always be someone who will kind of like it (like my mom).
But seriously: I believe that if you’re a, in my case filmmaker (or designer, or artist), you have a leading role – you show an example for other people how to live. Kind of. In the case that I would never let anyone smoke in my film for example, or never curse with harsh diseases or anything in that kind. You’re giving an example of how to be good. But, like I said: kind of. I hope that I will make my little world better some day, by giving my definition of good to other people. I believe that that’s the reason that I chose for going to an art school, instead of going to study something like economics (in which I would suck, probably). But if I will never change anything, that’s okay too – as long as I believed in that what I did, was the right thing. Like being vegetarian or doing voluntary work: making single little changes.
But am I really a maker? I don’t think so, jet. I grab a digital camera, I look at the script I wrote and start shooting. It’s not really a craft I’m making except for the writing; I don’t even know, if I have to be honest, how a camera exactly works. Than what am I doing with the latest model of a digital SLR camera? Crafting as filmmaker: what do I know from the technical aspects? I am reproducing others films and my own films, all through Internet, all digital. How does it work non-digital, analogue?
By this, I’m happy with our subject: drawing & printing, reproduction. As a filmmaker you are reproducing all the time. How to do that from scratch.
Week 2
Camera Obscura | lens
2,5 centimeter = vergrootglas met diameter 2 cm
Camera Obscura | box
Voorplaat buitenste box: 3 x 3 cm
Zijplaten buitenste box: 3 x 4 cm
Zijplaten binnenste box: 2,7 x 4,5 cm
Camera Obscura | proces
Camera Obscura | eindresultaat
Camera Obscura SLR | lens
31 centimeter = vergrootglas met diameter 10 cm
Camera Obscura SLR | box
Box: 15 x 15 x 35 cm Spiegel: 15 x 15 cm
Camera Obscura SLR | proces
Camera Obscura SLR | eindresultaat
Week 3
After experiments with lenses and stuff, I thought it would be nice to play a bit with lightsensitive paper. I made my room dark, opened a box with Fujifilm Instanx films, and put them behind the mirror of the camera obscura SLR. Only thing I missed... I am nightblind. The room, where I didn't see a thing, shall have been very light for the paper. Oops.
After this odd experiment, I went searching on the internet. What was going to be my next step? For next week we got to find a project which is 50% craftmanship, 50% machine-made. In the researching, I found the Konstruktor DIY 35 MM SLR Camera, which I became excited off; by making such a camera myself, I could see how to make such a already easy to make camera, more easy - and how does it work exactly?
BUT: what I found also in this research, was the pinhole camera. I didn't think of a camera obscura without a lense - I didn't even think it was possible. Silly me. So, I couldn't sleep before I made one.
Okay, it may be not too clear on this picture - but you can see the light on my wall. Upside down, from which I thought was because of the lenses.
After this, I could sleep peacefully.
Week 4
For this week, we needed to make something that was 50% machine and 50% craft. I was thinking how I could make my own camera work, and went on the internet... And found the Konstruktor. A camera which you can make yourself from the machine (perfect: machineswork matched with my own hands), so I could take a close look how these makers/designers made this camera.
So, coming back on the 50%-50% thing... Ofcourse, I know that this isn't exactly 50-50. There had been so many hands on this camera to make the design easier and easier, before a machine made it and then my hands went on it.
Last week, I spoke to a cameradesigner, who looked me really seriously in the eye, when he said: 'It cost way more time to make a simple design. That's why lots of camera's in the stores are way more difficult then they would have to be - but it takes time, and those brands just want to put those cameras on the market as fast as they're working.'
But, my plan with this camera, was to look at how they made it, and learn how I could make it even more easy, handcrafted. I came to the conclusion that I didn't want a camera with al those buttons - I couldn't make such a thing in this short time. Down here, you see my sketches for the next camera.
