I now felt confident enough to build a prototype ‘filmable pinhole camera’ so as to refine my research ready for actual shooting. I remembered I had some foam-board in the loft, left over from a film job I worked on about ten years ago. In an ideal world the box would have been made out of wood, metal or plastic maybe but for this stage of the project foam-board was more than sufficient and easy to work with.
Not knowing the exact dimensions needed for the filmable pinhole camera made life a bit tricky when it came to making the first cut into the foam-board, so I decided to build the largest design possible with the limited amount of material I had. The great thing about foam-board is that you can cut through the top layer of card and the foam in the middle, but leave the bottom layer of card intact – enabling a right angle to be formed by folding the intact layer of card. I soon had a basic structure and could start experimenting with creating an image.
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