User:Jhdupuis

Jacob Dupuis

Jacob Dupuis

Occupation	Student, Photographer
Year	Class of 2020
Instagram	jacob.visuals
Location	Maine, USA

Overview

Here at WPI, I have taken two Humanities courses, both related to film. HU2551 was a chance to explore my interest in the history of film and cinematography, while AR2401 helped me learn about what goes into a video production. In London I hope to further that experience and apply the theory of film with practice planning and creating a short video experience. I also hope to explore photography, as it is a topic I am personally passionate about. I look forward to sharing the takeaways of my experiences!

Milestone 1

Serpentine Gallery: Peek into the Future
Objective: Create a video that showcases The Serpentine Gallery's pavilion: Home to yearly creations by some of the greatest architects in history, and a place that the answer to the question of what structure design may look like in the future.


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Milestone 2

The Rise of New Buildings in Old London
Objective: Over time every city experiences change and growth as technology develops and demand for modernization occurs. This project will observe how 21st Century architecture fits in the classic English city and how modern designers are incorporating historical features into sustainable commercial locations.

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Milestone 3

Shifting Time in Hidden Gardens
Objective: This photography project will explore gardens in London and lead to the creation of panorama images that have a gradient shift across different weather and times of the day.

Below the objective statement, Insert a one or two paragraph summary of your findings from having reached this milestone. If this milestone, for you, represents a humanities and arts capstone, please indicate so. Edit the link below to link to your milestone page.
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Activity Journal

The activity journal represents an ongoing log of reflections gained through each and every project activity on the calendar.

Movie Sets

When exploring on the first day or two of the trip during the scavenger hunt, we came across a street that was shut down with people running all over and shouting, and full of old looking cabs and cars. Upon closer inspection, there were giant tubes that stuck up over the street and poured rain down on demand. We had stumbled across a movie set, and asked the security guard who relieved that it was the set for the forthcoming movie entitled 'The Death and Life of John F. Donovan'. The movie stars Natalie Portman, Jessica Chastain and Kit Harrington. We got to witness how the crew interacted with the actors, and how they dressed up this small side street into a bustling chaotic rainy day in London.

The following day we walked by yet another shoot, this time of Stan and Ollie, a remake about the classic early Hollywood actors Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy. Later that afternoon we walked by the production in a different location, this time watching the crew turn the Lyceum Theatre into an old Hollywood cinema.

Early one afternoon we discovered another movie set, hidden among office buildings on a quiet sunny Sunday. Unsure if we could enter, we asked a group of security guards what the film was and they answered "We don't know." At this point we had learned that the answer usually meant it was a large budget production, so we politely asked if we could walk through. With that one of the security guards escorted us through the set. As she led us, we witnessed a scene being staged involving bike couriers and a famous actress being directed. Once we were out of the shooting area we asked another guard what the film was again and this time, he revealed the name of the 2018 Warner Bros. blockbuster. Later on the scavenger hunt, we came across the same crew again, this time in a public space with just a few people. The director of the film was in the middle of the intersection, taking charge of the camera as they recorded a shot 6 or 7 times. We watched the actress and Academy Award winner, Alicia Vikander, and her stunt double bike through the traffic around a corner. Eventually as they picked up, we stood with them and observed how the shoot was concluded.

National Gallery

The first activity my group set out on was to visit the [National Gallery]. This vast building had an incredible collection of paintings and altarpieces that even in our two hour visit, we did not see entirely. We witnessed several famous paintings and many that our group recognized from our previous experiences in school. I was amazed by just how incredibly detailed or larger some of the paintings were, and even those dating back to the 1300s were in pristine condition. Overall we found that the building housing the paintings was just as incredible as the art itself, and constantly found ourselves looking up to admire the vaulted ceilings or the modern etch-work on the glass in the old domes. Following our visit, we then contributed to an article on the National Gallery and works inside of it together.

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