Tatem Criner-MODI Blog

 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...

  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...