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Neurocinematics has provided an exciting window to the film viewers’ minds. The study field of neurocinematics (Hasson et al. 2008) has shown how films make different viewers’ brains “tick” together. Using films as stimuli in neuroscience labs has allowed researchers to accumulate new insights to the human behaviour, emotions, and memory. For example, could it be possible to test whether the minds of the viewership synchronize with the mind of the director, asks neuroscientist Iiro Jääskeläinen in his talk on May 7.

It is time to extend the scope to the filmmakers’ minds. Do the filmmakers and viewers alike build their experience and sense-making on the same embodied foundation? What are the embodied dynamics of the filmmaker in the process of simulating the experiences of the fictional protagonists and/or that of imagined viewers described as “enactive authorship” by Pia Tikka? In his talk professor Maarten Coëgnarts, from University of Antwerp, will open up embodied mental schemas in filmmaking and viewing. A script writing workshop by Maude Sills-Néron, University of Montréal, will invite participants to examine creative cognitive overload and the image density in the script, on May 5.

And generate truly Interdisciplinary insights to the filmmakers’ practices. In her talk, cinematographer Elen Lotman addresses eye-tracking as one of many means to study the experiential heuristics and the practice-based knowledge accumulated by cinematographers. What ways could neuroimaging observations of viewer experience be extended to accumulating novel insights on the professional practices? How could insights from filmmaking practitioners be brought more effectively into studies of individual first-person experiences, a question addressed from neurophenomenological point of view by professor Katrin Heimann, Aarhus University. This discussion is extended to the virtual reality and atypical brains in the talk by neuropsychologist Juha Salmitaival, from Aalto University, on May 6.

Three neurocinematic days packed with knowledge exchange, live discussions and social mingling between participants and speakers from film and cognitive studies, will provide different theoretical and practical perspectives to the interdisciplinary challenges of studying creative processes of professional cinematographers, screenwriters, and other experts of filmmaking.

The detailed seminar programme

05.05 

9:30-10:00  Registration

10:00-12:30 Workshop: Maude Sills-Néron Creating cognitive overload: image density in the script (2:30 min in a separate lecture room, not online – max 10-20 participants) (N-207, Nova Building, 2nd floor)

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13.30-15.30 Josie Barnard The Multimodal Writer: on storytelling and writing visuals (room A-002, Astra Building, Auditorium Maximus)

19:00 Friday night dinner for gathering together (self-paid) – welcome. Restaurant Must Puudel (Black Poodle) in Tallinn Old Town 19.00. The address is Kuninga 4, 10146 Tallinn Here is a Google Maps link to the place:

06.05 

09:00-09:30 Registration with refreshments

09:30-9:45 Opening words – Pia Tikka & Elen Lotman

9:45-10:30 Tony Costa How three cinematographers shoot the same scene differently. 

10:30-11:15 Elen Lotman Perceptual professionalization – eye tracking pilot experiment. 

11:15-11:30 Mingling & refreshments

11:30-12:15  Sampsa Huttunen Ecological Approach to Cinematographic Lighting of Human Face—a Pilot Study

12:15-13:00 Maarten Coegnarts Shaping films from the inside-out: Embodied mental schemas in filmmaking- and viewing. 

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45 Katrin Heimann – Microphenomenology and VR  (online talk)

14:45-15:30  Robert McNamara Artificial Humans in Storytelling and its Ethical Implications (online talk)

15:30-16:00 Mingling & refreshments

16:00-18:00 Discussion roundtable with the audience – opportunities and pitfalls in designing small pilot experiments involving filmmakers. How to empower filmmakers to do experimental studies and through it to bring their tacit knowledge into science

Dinner for gathering together (self-paid) 

Radisson hotel, MEKK Restaurant, address Rävala pst 3, 10143 Tallinn at 19:00

Welcome!

07.05 
 

09:00-9:30 Refreshments

9:30-10:15 Mircea Valeriu Deaca POV shots in light of Cognitive Grammar (online talk)

10:15-11:00 Mehmet Burak The emotional and perceptual functions of different camera movements. 

11:00-11:30 Screening of Maarten Coëgnarts’ visual essay – stay tuned also online

11:30-12:30 Lunch break

12:30-13:15 Iiro Jääskeläinen Online assessment of emotional and cognitive states of movie viewers with neuroimaging: a tool for testing whether the minds of the viewership synchronize with the mind of the director?

13:15-14:00  Jaime Lopez Diez Diegetic and non-diegetic surprises, and their effect on liking, long-term recall and comprehension in narrative television commercials.

14:00-14:15 Mingling & refreshments

14:15-15:00 Juha Salmitaival How VR can be used in clinical assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders (online talk)

15:00 -15:45 Assim Kalouaz Contribution of priming on the emotional appraisal of VR experiences  (online talk)

15:45-16:00  Mingling & refreshments

16:00-18:30 Film screening  (t.b.cc.) “Sleeping Beast”,  (100 mindir. Jack Kilmi, DoP Elen Lotman, Stellar Film (EST), Locomotive Studio (LAT)