Total Cinema, Total Theatre, Total World: From Set as Architecture to Set as Virtual Performer

Sets are a construction within André Bazin’s “recreation of the world in its own image.” During 1920s, advances film stock (which improved image clarity) and better lenses expanded depth field) meant that visual fidelity sets had to increase. Most critical was more sophisticated camera motion. Cranes could now take into sets, which required complete environments. have mutated spread ever since. Architects began working movie industry people as architects. With introduction first Disney theme park, this practice became codified thematic placemaking has since proliferated globally. later provided blueprint for digital games, embodied game engine reached virtual holism. Today, Industrial Light & Magic’s StageCraft pairs LED display walls with technology on soundstage called Volume. replaces both CGI traditional set mixed reality, photorealistic Filmmakers can also make design changes real time move these backgrounds around players. This article posits new history spatial philosophy experiential mode themed spaces, video reality each become unified recombination rigid theatre/ cinema dichotomy.