Blog Post: The Final Frontier

My VERY biased review of our assignments.

6) Freestyle- Although I love the creative freedom, I would have liked to have possibly spent the class time exploring another film outlet that is foreign to me.... like FLxER. (side note: thank you for sharing FLxER with us, as brief as it was) I felt like my final freestyle project was something I could have done before my gained knowledge from the class.

5) Rhythmic Edit- I loved loved loved the outcome of this project, just wished the difficulty was a little higher or harder. Weird I know. Maybe I am just crazy.

4) Anaglyph 3D- I truly liked this project. I only put it at #4 because the outcome wasn't my favorite. Group projects are challenging. I must say that this project is one that I got truly inspired from and will try to incorporate an experiment with.

3) Bolex Long Take-  Bowties are cool. Bolexs are cooler. Felt like I gained lots of knowledge about the camera (enough not to be scared of it). I like that I got to experiment with something completely foreign and mostly unattainable to me.

2) Muti-plane Animation- No elements of this project should be changed. I liked the creative freedom as well as the element of creating separate soundtracks.

1) Direct 16mm Film Manipulation- There is something so fascinating about playing and manipulating actual film stock. Felt we had creative freedom with structure. An experience I've already shared out of excitement with multiple humans. Learning+Enjoyment= happy college student.

Thank you Andre (and classmates ) for such a unique class experience!

Captain's Log- Blog Six

The Rugged Theater

I found this discussion and reading very engaging and I want to expand on that dialog. In the Rough Theatre, there is this mention of finite "performance". A performance that adapts to its audience. They are not laughing at the high brow jokes- you add in a fart to get their attention. Film does not have this quality. A movie is a movie (unless you are at a rocky horror showing) and that movie doesn't adapt to fit the audience's demands. There is no choose your own ending or joke movie theaters.......yet. But with "experimental" / non-traditional filmmaking there is an adaptation aspect. Between the filmmaker and the medium. A filmmaker can approach the project in a traditional way, such as planning, storyboard, ect. But the medium is the master (or the audience). The ink doesn't dry correctly, the "one take" gets over exposed, wind blows off the paper sky of your stop motion animation,  the printer ink smears, and so on. The filmmaker (or performer) has to adapt his performance to continue the show. Side note: cameraless filmmaking can most definitely be a finite "performance" as one play through the projector is most likely all the filmstock can muster. Filmmaking may not have the same special interaction between performer and viewer, but it does have a interaction between a creator and the medium. This class has brought this to my attention and have made me realize that in the "film world" that I exist in, a finite film performance is a special rarity. No control Z, no After effects to fix a mistake, just a filmmaker and his paintbrush.