2001: A Space Odyssey Research

2001 was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. 

Kubrick's films usually show expressions of an inner struggle, within/between the characters.

He's careful not to portray his own views on the meaning of the film and leaves it open to interpretation by the audience.

Film author Patrick Webster considers Kubrick's methods of writing and developing scenes to allow collaboration and improvisation with the actors during filming.
- Similar to the responses from Ethan Earle during interview. Working with others to provide a difference in opinions and further develop the scenes.

The set of the centrifuge.

"There was a script and we followed it, but when it didn't work he knew it, and we had to keep rehearsing endlessly until we were bored with it.".

Kubrick pays a lot of attention to detail during filming, as he's had many years of experience behind the camera, being into photography from a young age.

Kubrick had a rotating "ferris wheel" built by Vickers-Armstrong Engineering Group which cost $750,000 to make. The set was 38 feet (12 m) in diameter.


Filming techniques used in 2001:

Split Scan Photography, Camera is rotated into
portrait orientation so slit makes the scan run
 from top to bottom instead of left too right

• 1. slit-scan photography -  enables the cinematographer to create a psychedelic flow of colours (like inn the spacestar visuals of 2001). Can be used within scanning to create a deformed visual. - Could use this technique of photography/scanning within the poster? Create elongated shapes for the images, manipulate collage in this way?
• 2. front-screen projection - combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage and onto a highly reflective background surface.
• 3. one-point perspective - which leads the viewer's eye towards a central vanishing point. The technique relies on creating a complex visual symmetry using parallel lines in a scene which all converge on that single point, leading away from the viewer. 

Kubrick's interest in science fiction films was sparked by Japanese tokusatsu (a Japanese term for live-action film or television drama that makes heavy use of special effects) films such as Warning from Space. 

The reasons for HAL's malfunction and subsequent malignant behaviour have elicited much discussion. He has been compared to Frankenstein's monster.

modern furniture in the film are the bright red Djinn chairs seen prominently throughout the space station, Olivier Mourgue, designer of the Djinn chair, has used the connection to 2001 in his advertising.

Olivier Mourgue's Dijnn Chairs