Stanley Kubrick Archive trip

We had a trip last week Friday and, we were travelling to London college of communication its part of the UAL (university of arts London). We got there by train to elephant&castle and we walked to the university which was like 3 minutes. We went to see Stanley Kubrick's archive, on the exhibition there was a table in the middle of the room full of things to do with Stanley Kubrick.There was also a shelf with so many photos and there was a tun of books and DVD's of his films. On the table i remember there was a mould, a jacket that was used in the shining, paper work, a mask and there was typed writing in German and also location pictures.

The most interesting one i liked the most is the photo of when he made London into New York. I thought that was a smart idea as he didn't want to waste time or he was probably on budget to fly to New York so, he just changed some of the buildings and cars to make it look like New York. That was the Panorama of the whole commercial road and the photos were taken with a camera and he used a ladder too. When you take a panorama he said you have to keep it in the same angle and direction to avoid not accurate panorama. After that he perfects the photos then the cuts and sticks them together to make a long panorama. The Panorama is actually 6 metres long in reality, on the table we only saw half of it. The least interesting thing for me was probably the typed writing with the different languages.I didn't find it that interesting because i saw other things that were better than it.

Stanley Kubrick uses both Primary and Secondary research and also Pre-production.He uses Primary research to take pictures of locations so he can decide where he's gonna film.He also takes pictures of props to help him later of when he views the film. In the film "full metal jacket" he took photos of the locations of Vietnam so he knows how he can make London look like Vietnam. He wanted it to be during war in that country,the props were taken so he knows where to continue from so there's no errors. He used Secondary research for his panorama of London into New York. He used photos from a researcher to cut and stick the photos together in order to create the panorama.

A Kubrick research method i would use in my work would be location scouting. I think this method is very important because its giving you so many options of where to shoot your film and you can get an idea of what you want your film to be about or look like. Looking at locations will also define the genre of your film and its like a guide line to shoot your film. Also when you take photos of the props it will help you avoid errors that could be made on continuity.