Slit-Scan
スリットスキャン / 1968– / Technique / Film Technology
Long exposures through a slit, with camera or subject in motion, stretch space and time into a single image — written into film history by the Stargate sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Streaked light / Endless planes / Time turned into space / Machine-controlled exposure
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Douglas Trumbull / the Doctor Who titles / its kinship with photo-finish cameras