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Methods

  My methods for the exploration into my question “How do architectural descriptions of fictional buildings get adapted into visualizations for film?” involve many methods of exploration into the topic. The overall process will take place in two parts. The first process will be an examination of the actual process of translating a literary medium into a visual one. This will be through literary review of case studies of specific movies that have been adapted from previous literary iterations. Of these case studies they will be Maze Runner, Dune, and Lord of the Rings as previously explained in the project background. I will gather this information from recorded interviews with their production designers and filmmakers. I will read the books to find architectural descriptions of the buildings as seen in the movies. I will compare their characteristics with their described feel in contribution to the plot, story, and themes. Through these, I will be able to deduce the reasons the bui...
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Background

  The making and imagining of film is a laborious process facilitated by directors, set designers, cinematographers, gaffers, make-up department, digital artists, etc. But before any creative outcome bears fruit there must first be an idea. Creation cannot exist without inspiration. A film has a source material that inspires it. Sometimes there is an original idea that starts out being adapted into a theatrical medium, however, this is rare given the relative youth of filmmaking as an artform. Art inspires art and many of the most creative endeavors (especially film) rely on precedents to draw inspiration. Literature, the written word, compositions, texts have been the official way to record information and tell stories for thousands of years and are still in use in our modern society. What is literature at its most basic level if not simply communication? All of literature is art through written communication. So how does an idea from one medium get translated into another? In the...
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MODI post- honors commitee

 This past week I have narrowed my focus and created my final question. HOW DOES ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIONS OF FICTIONAL BUILDINGS GET ADAPTED INTO VISUALIZATIONS FOR FILM? There are many new developments that I have developed when it comes to my methods. During my review in front of the honors committee Jinoh mentioned that part of my methods should involve artificial intelligence and how I can take the words that I get and create visualizations for fictional buildings. In addition to doing this I will create a visualization of an unadapted literary source and develop my own visualization through 3D modeling software. Developing a good visualization will be necessary to contributing to how the accuracy and the results of my investigative process.  My sources that I have gathered so far have talked about how production designers have created visualizations based on modern architectural practices as well as descriptions from the book. Many of the buildings in the movies ar...
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Initial Proposal

 So far I am still very much trying to narrow my focus and develop a proper question. After reading a few more research, and general knowledge articles I have developed a new question. One I believe will tie back to architecture and relate to film while allowing me to find the connection between the two. My new question is "How does architectural descriptions of fictional/ non-fictional buildings get translated into a visualization for film?" I believe my methods will include looking at descriptions of buildings from popular literature and comparing them to their on-screen counterparts. With this objective analysis there will also be a fair bit of references from the filmmakers themselves describing how they believed the buildings should be perceived. To further investigate the process of translating descriptive literature being transcribed into a film adaptation, I will translate my own visualizations from books that I have read. However, to ensure that my findings won't...
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Alterations

  This past week I have made a fairly large change to my project. I believe that, to better articulate what I want to accomplish with my research, I should change my question. My last question focused on deriving an objective process to analyze how one can take descriptive literature and use it to make a visualization. Film was going to be a method of finding out that process by looking at how the filmmakers took that description and created a visualization. My new question is How is descriptive literature translated into film and television production design? I believe this new question is answerable. My previous question had many variables that could feasibly be answered. My question sought to create an objective process out of subjective material. Answering the question would have needed to involve variations of project variables. My new question allows me to look into the process of taking a written passage and translating it to film. With this new question comes new methods of...
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Project Development

This past week I have been looking at different sources of cinema. This last week I have been watching "Outer Banks" and "The Last of Us." I did research into the source material for each show. Outer Banks is original content, meaning that the concept of the show comes from the screen writers of the show. The idea does not need to be adapted from other content such as books, video games, previous movie iterations, historical events, etc. "The Last of Us is adapted from a Video Game. My topic and question revolve around how visual information in literature gets adapted into a cinematic visualization. Upon my research into the video game and its visual comparison to "The Last of Us" TV show, I have realized that the adaptation to the show is very accurate to the video game. Not only through visuals, but plot and story as well. "The Last of Us" only has six episodes so far but has already received great reviews from critics about the acting, ci...
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Research Development

 The research that I have done this past week has been minimal. I have been watching the movie Blade Runner 2049. The movie won an academy award for best cinematography and best visual effects. I have not finished the movie yet; however, I am excited to finish it. So far, the production design is very high quality and I find it intriguing. I am at a crossroads between my topics. I am torn between the topic of translating descriptive literature into visualizations and the topic of examining the role of interior design in movie production. I think that both topics have potential to be good projects; the problem is if I will enjoy learning about either one. To properly know I will have to do more research into the topics. I have discovered an article that talks about the production design of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The article says that, to create the amazing world of Middle Earth, every aspect of filmmaking and unconventional means needed to be developed to create the illusion...
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