In the beginning of the film to about the middle I found it mostly just repetitive and annoying. I wanted to see more of the image, but I was only allowed to see really fast paced images that flickered on the screen for only a moment and then switched to black. By the end of the film however, I began to enjoy it. The animations grew more complex and my interest in the film was brought back. The animations were still very fast paced but they took up a larger portion of the screen and the fades to black were less frequent. The sound too annoyed me in the beginning. It seemed jarring and unfitting with the visuals, but as the animations grew more complex the music seemed to compliment it more.
I’m very excited to be taking 6x1. I’ve heard great things about this class and I can’t wait to learn all of the techniques we will workshop. I’ve never really considered myself an experimental filmmaker as I usually stick to documentary production classes and films but I think I will find a way to incorporate the techniques I learn in this class into my other projects. Already we have began workshopping camera less filmmaking techniques where we have scratched, punched holes out of, and cut up film in order to manually manipulate the image. I completely trashed my film strip and I am excited to see it on the projector today. It was a lot of fun working on film this way, as normally you’re supposed to treat film with care and respect, here we got to wreck it to the point where the original image (50s looking health video) is almost recognizable.
