I am now satisfied that film is the primary medium that I should use to convey time-based changes of the site. However, as architecture school is a place where printed portfolios are still seen as the main final product, I have been musing as to whether there are methods of transferring the key information from the film back into a medium which can be printed and presented in a book format. A flick book is one possibility.
Films or animations are simply a series of frames which change in quick succession to create the illusion of a moving image. A flick book works in the same way, by having a frame on each page. When the pages are flicked through quickly, the illusion of movement occurs.
This method would work well with my particular film, for two reasons. Firstly, the changes of the site in the film are quite slow processes, meaning that the film can be exported at quite a low frame rate without losing any information. This in turn means that a flick book version would not need to have a ridiculously high number of pages. The second reason is that my film doesn't have any audio content. Even if I were to add audio at a later date, it would not be essential to the narrative that is needing to be told. This means that transferring to flick book doesn't result in a loss of information in this sense either.
Thumbnails of all the pages that would be required to show the film from 1970 to 2019 in flickbook form at one page per year (50 pages)
If I were to utilise this method, I would probably choose to 1 one page per year. With the way that I have set up the film, the year is already in the bottom right hand corner, meaning that that could function as the navigational tool, in place of a page number.
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