Thursday 20 February 2014

Architecture in cinema


Casa Milà in Barcelona is a very unusual looking apartment building from the first decade of the 20th century. Its architect is Antoni Gaudí who also planned the famous Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona.In his movie The Passenger (1974) director Michelangelo Antonioni used the roof of the house as a meeting place for the two main characters, played by Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.Edited to tunes of Nubian Lady by Yusef Lateef.


While researching and casually looking for camera angles to use as part of my artifact I came across a YouTube channel which has various clips showing great natural architecture being used in films. This is sometimes lost in today's film with the use of CGI and sets being used. As my artifacts are based around a real life building and adding principles of cinematography to them it is good reference to look at these videos as the shots used really get the best out of them.  

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