48 Hours

So yeah, the 48 hour video race.  This will be something interesting and unique that I have never done before.  We will definitely see what happens because my improv is not outstanding.  I have been thinking about the types of devices to capture images that we can use and so far, all I have got for an idea is using my phone to capture video.  I am really glad I decided to switch back to my old phone so I can capture video since it seems to be my only source right now.  In the meantime I will continue to figure out if I can find out any other pieces of equipment that I can use to film the project.  I figured I can tell a narrative story with a suggestive take on experimental editing style.  I am not entirely sure on that yet.  I am short on ideas right now and am not exactly sure on what I would like to do yet.  It will be twice as interesting to see what happens when I have my mystery prop picked out that has to be put into the film.  Maybe I can do a film of someone who is trying to send a last minute message to someone and has no other way of communication.  Maybe they have to send a video because a voicemail will not do since the person who they are trying to contact never checks their voicemail that often.  Maybe the reason for that can be that only wrong numbers usually leave voicemails so that person does not try and listen to voicemails any longer.  Or the person trying to send the video message wanted to say something special and the best way they thought they could do so was by video message.  I know that happens sometimes.  Maybe it’s someone trying to send a threatening message to someone else and they wanted to seem more intimidating by a message with image.  Eh, sounds pretty basic so far, but hopefully I can think of something more exciting and interesting to come up with soon.  For now I will continue to think of something a little more creative and hopefully something will come to mind.  Hopefully, I can try and use another type of device besides a phone, but we will see.  I am very interested to see what everyone will come up with for this project.

Colors, Animation, and Fun

So this first assignment that we had was way cool.  I love how we were pretty much unlimited to what each of us could do with our film strips.  It was exciting to see what was presented on the film once it was projected.  Once again, I really like the type of exposure I am getting to cameraless filmmaking.  Even though it is a bit time consuming the finished product is very rewarding and the time making the film was really fun.  I was very pleased with the way our film came out.  I wish that I can get better at doing more animation work.  I find animation to be very fascinating and fun so any type of exposure I can get to that is totally awesome.  I was quite proud of the tree I made given that I have never done this type of animation before. I thought this assignment was a perfect amount of exposure to a new type of animation that I had not experimented with yet.  I spent an entire semester with Maya and had a fair share of 3D animation but actually getting to draw on real film and making your own animation with your own hands is very neat.  I loved the way all of the colors turned out.  They were really fun to draw on film and the markers we were able to use were awesome.  As we discussed in 495, I am definitely not opposed to doing this type of procedure again for our senior seminar film.  After this assignment I would really like to try and experiment with more magazine transfers, animation, and color drawing just for fun even.  I would love to experiment more with 16mm film.  I would love to actually make a film and capture images.  Then before it’s developed would like to draw on the film strip and make abstract shapes.  Pretty much like Andre’s films we watched in class or kind of like Naomi Umen’s film with the nail polish, Removed.  I do confess, I would like to go more narrative for a lifelong career in film, but I still would love to be able to make more abstract pieces for my own personal enjoyment.   Again, with this project I loved that we got to mess more with the splicer.  It took me forever to actually believe that how they made films long ago was just by cutting and taping the film together.   Messing with real film is a nice break from the technology and the digital world.