Screening

2001: A Space Odyssey 

'It is an immersive viewing experience, the concept of the screening is very strong as almost everything seems thought out. The only issue I have with the screening is how awkward you have to sit if you were to sit in the front. It would also be interesting if you had different animation for the second screen.'  I feel that the awkward nature of sitting in columns to watch the screening was a justified decision by the group, as it was synonymous with the intense and immerisive theme we were going for, as it forced the audience to focus on focal point in the corner of the room. Although I do understand that the screening was hard to watch clearly sometimes due to the chair column layout being very tightly packed one in front of the other.  

'The ticket is well designed, but the normal ticket side could have been warped like all of the other work, maybe not as much but maybe be just a slight bump somewhere. Hall is most effective when you sit in the middle, and he would have been more prominent if he grew slightly as the film went on. Started small and ended up taking up the whole screen or something like that'  As a group we did consider distorting the type and imagery on the tickets, but decided against this, as we felt that the clinical and ordered layout of the ticket would communicate/portray a more authentic ticket to what you would expect for a flight. A more distorted aesthetic to the ticket would have had a more obvious link to the poster for the screening, and we did consider this, by using the same 'cut up' type used on the poster, but the layout we chose to use didn't fit with the typeface, as it felt like the type was being forced into a controlled format, when it was more of an expressive typeface. 

Firstly, I thought the use of two screens either side of the corner in the room were really cool. I would definitely describe it as an immersive experience which was the intention so it was very successful. The video playing in a loop on the left looked really good although due to technical issues it wasn't the video described in the presentation so I wasn't 100% what the meaning behind it was but visually it worked well.  If we were to do this screening again, more animations would be needed, as the audience was stuck looking at the same looping gif for the majority of the film, which took away from the immersive nature, as the audience would drift away from it after a short time. 

The placing of the screens also added to the experience as the silver piping on the ceiling made a link to the film this perhaps might have not been intentional but it was still an aspect that added to the overall experience.  The silver piping was considered before the screening. We had already agreed on the corner of the room, because of the intensity of the space, but the piping above sold the space to us, as we felt it added to space/mechanical theme of the film. Most of the sets in the film were handmade; the simple silver aesthetic of the piping added to this. 

The small TV that showed HAL continuously throughout the film worked really well and it was nice to use another form of technology other than the projectors. However, the seat that I was in, I couldn't really see him, I only saw him before and afterwards so perhaps the seating should've been placed so everyone had a view of HAL regardless of where they were. I agree with the comments about HAL being be presented in a format which is more relatable to the time period (the old school tv). A bigger image of Hal woud have been ideal, but the tv used was the biggest tv we could find that was relatable to the film.

Other than not being able to see HAL I thought the placement of the seats was good as everyone was facing towards the centre of the corner. Visually, you could see how the seating related to the scene that they were inspired by. We tried to make it clear that the seating arrangemtn was inspired by shots from the film. Specifically one where we see Dr Dave Bowman walk down a narrow corridor in the film. We used the line following the sides of the tunnel as a guide for the seating arrangement.