A arte tecnológica documental nos esportes radicais: a portabilidade do dispositivo e o olharcâmera à produção de sensação-kite

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the potential of portable technological filming equipment for the stages of producing images and sounds of extreme sports, for the realization of the documentary Sensação Kite. The kitesurf modality, the theme of the film, is considered an evolution of surfing. The sport consists of moving on a board, with the aid of a kite fixed to the athlete by line to a trapezoid at the waist. The research verifies the trajectory of the representation of documentary images of aquatic sports practices, from the work of Jaqcues Cousteau, the classics of surfing, kitesurfing programs and films, to the immersive formats, in which portable cameras started to function as extensions of the body, with the theoretical contribution of Marshall McLuhan. It analyzes how the formats generated by different devices produce different and contemporary forms, drawing a parallel between the evolution of the sport and the equipment used for its capture, with a view to visual perception, based on Rudolph Arnheim and R.L. Gregory, and Arlindo Machado. It is considered as such from documentary pre-production, capture, and post-production, with emphasis on editing and editing, in the light of Sergei Eisenstein. Therefore, it analyzes the effects of meanings generated by aesthetics and esthesia of the images and sounds of the practice of the sport during spectatorship and immersiveness in virtual reality, under the concepts of Diana Domingues. To understand the modes of production, reception, and interactivity, the corpus of analysis was generated by an empirical procedure for capturing the audiovisual of the modality, from July 2017 to January 2019; in the Northeast region of Brazil, state of Ceará, Praia do Preá, the most expressive place of the sport in the country, due to the intense winds. The interdisciplinary theoretical approach permeates the areas of Documentary Cinema, Communication, with authors such as Marialva Barbosa; of Technology, by the concepts of Álvaro Vieira Pinto; with support from Physics and Philosophy. The empirical content dialogues with the theories to see how art and technology impacted man. However, it analyzes how these devices generate immersion for the viewer due to the subjectivity of the images captured; investigates the “fragments” of captured representations-facts, according to the potential of the devices; explores the relationship between man and equipment for representing reality; and observes innovative elements resulting from portability.