Requirements for video documentation of installations – To experience the installation.
Content and context of the artwork are basic features to be taken in consideration when presenting an installation on video to an audience. Starting with the artwork the aesthetic, conceptual and technical elements of the installation need to be captured. Next to this, the architecture and audience should be taken in consideration for documentation. Here an overview:
With the artwork as the starting point consider how to capture: |
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Content
Aesthetic, conceptual and technical elements of the installation. |
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Context
> Architectural positioning:
Architectural positioning /placement of the artwork in the space.
The individual artwork versus the rest of the exhibition.
> Audience:
Represent choreography
Represent interactive action; its effect on the installation and its effect on the audience. |
Recommendations when presenting an installation to the audience on video |
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Make an objective, chronological, true to life rendering (of image and sound). |
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Consider the recorder (camera) as a spectator. |
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Start the video recording of the installation with a (static) overview of installation parts and their relations, as well as the positioning of the installation in space. |
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Do not only use a static camera; zoom in for details. |
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Include metadata of the artwork (e.g. place and date of the recording). |
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Use extras (audience) to illustrate and measure space, experience, effect. |
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If the artwork is interactive include the camera and audience as participants. |
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