Topic Selection

 I believe that I have narrowed my final topic down to one option. I believe that I will be focusing on my topic of production design and how interior design can contributed to cinema. More specifically, I believe that my topic will be about how one can translate descriptive literature into a visualization. I think that my typology of project will be a study into examples of how artists take descriptions of objects and scenes and how they interpret them into a visualization. From that, I will be able to develop a process about how to bring about a visualization from the original author's intent, instead of through the artist's interpretation of the scene. This will involve intense literary analysis of descriptive passages. For example, if one were to interpret the descriptive phrase, "the oak tree was big" they would first have to approach the passage in its context. When was the passage written? Has the author used different phrasing for similar terms? What kind of oak tree is implied? White oak? Dark oak? Adjectives like "big" can have a variety of meanings. What is the historical quality of that word? One would have to look at similar literature sources to gain clarity. What is the authors intent with that word? is "big" implied to mean something different? The word "was" can also have different meanings depending on many different circumstances. Does the author mean to use it in a past tense? Is a character simply agreeing with another character affirming that "the oak tree was big"? This topic will have me heavily examining literature and authors intent. Every word needs to be examined to objectively create a visualization true to the authors intent. The applicability an objective visualization formula has to cinema and to production design cannot be understated. I am excited to being this research. I need to look into ways to examine literature objectively and see the process that artists take to bring descriptive scenes to life.