Saturday Shoot

I enjoyed the Saturday class mostly because it really wasn't class, more of a open-minded free production day. Helping the other group wasn't as bad as it was imagined to be with intensive labor, but more enjoyment from the process of filmmaking. I don't think it would of been as much fun without using the Bolex. The thought of actually shooting on film and only having the opportunity for one take made the production much more exciting. The small 8mm camera was pretty interesting to use too which I didn't know I would have the pleasure of using when I showed up. I never knew they made crank 8mm cameras that compact so it was cool to be able to use another camera that I never had before. Im always down to try something new especially in film. Our original idea which Tim had came up with ended up falling through when he couldn't show up for the Saturday Shoot. We ended up using my spur of the moment idea to film a rolly chair race. I thought we could use the advantage of having nobody in the building and the perfect hard granite floors to have some fun while filming. The building actually is in a M shape and worked for a great race track to film. The processing portion of the day was prettying interesting also, I had never dark room'd anything until this class. So the opportunity to watch film strips slowly reveal there images was cool experience, and I hope it isn't the last time. I look forward to doing post production with this footage, Royce and I have some really cool ideas.

48 hour video race IDEAS

I have never done a production such as this, but have always read about these contests in various papers and have always been interested. Stop animation with a high resolution SLR looks like the best way to create this production. I am a huge fan of stop animation and love the final product that comes out of the frame by frame production. I almost cant sleep thinking about what in the world the mystery prop could be as it will most likely influence my film greatly. Instead of just throwing the prop into an already formulated plot, I'd rather create the short about the mystery prop itself. So I am kinda waiting till that friday to figure everything out. I enjoy the idea and thoughts behind creativity in the mind, and believe that my best ideas happen on the spot of production. I am very excited about this project and can't wait till it comes time to do it.

2nd Scratch Film Junky

I had seen a few shorts from the Scratch Film Junkies along with "To the Beat" and they all have impressed me with there precision and quality. However, "St. Louise" overpowered all the previous films I had seen. I have a great respect for the cameraless filmmaking genre because it takes such a dedicated amount of time and with film so small, it calls for precise strokes and scratches. While the whole film may seem random the the untrained eye, every stroke, bleach, scratch, coloring, and alteration is thoroughly planned before production actually begins. Their seamless animations which each probably lasted no more that 10 seconds consisted of hundreds of frames that would take mass amounts of time to produce for such a short viewing time. Every time I watch a cameraless production, they grow and grow on me more. You also gain a better understanding after watching multiple times. The object transformations in "St. Louise" were really sick and its amazing how somebody can animate so well with such small frames. The cameraless project Royce and I did came out mostly how we expected, of course it went by a lot quicker than expected haha, but actually creating it yourself makes me as artist appreciate The Scratch film Junkies work a lot more.