Cinema Aesthetics
Scrapbook of images and ideas for the aesthetic of the app, based on exterior decor of cinemas:
Queue around the block in NY for opening of Jaws (1975), image from Kobal Collection via Mark Cousins.
New York cinema typography.
Cinema hoarding, Cornerhouse, Manchester UK
These contemporary designs for the Rio are inspired by the original cinema aesthetics.
Liking the neon...
Image of The Globe from Stephen Barber's Abandoned Images: Film and Film's End (2010) which celebrates the ruins of 12 disused cinema buildings, built between 1910-31, still extant on Broadway Avenue, in Downtown Los Angeles: "cinematic space is ... experiencing fundamental shifts, notably in the abandoment of its distinctive forms" (p. 1). The sheer density of cinemas on this avenue is astounding, but Barber suggests that their location in the city of dreams is the reason for their survival as buildings. Barber claims Broadway Avenue has the greatest concentration of abandoned, but intact, cinemas in the world and describes it as a "geographyically linear graveyard in which to experience film's end":
The Kallet Genesse, Syrascuse, NY, which was demolished in 1997.
El Capitan, Hollywood Blvd, still very much extant.
Colours: red, black, white and gold.
Here's a lovely video of theatre designer Joseph Musil, who designed El Capitan, talking about his inspiration and vocation for theatre design:
Getting a real feel for the aesthetic, and the content is brewing. The next step is to figure out how we're going to test the user interface...
