So Saturday started off great. Woke up at 6 30 am and went to work! just kidding that part sucked. What was good though was when I got to peace out early and head to UNCW to shoot the 16mm 1 minute film.
Our idea was fairly simple. We had a bee attached to a wire that I was holding, while Barrett handled the camera. We planned to have the bee sort of run (buzz) around people doing different activities (picnicing, soccering, etc.). We spent the first half just blocking the scene, and getting down our timing. It was a little difficult to hold the bee, and be a soccer player. But by making bee sound effects I was able to seperate my spoken conscious into the persona of Bee, and my inner voice was the persona of Mee. It made sense and everyone appreciated it, I only wish we could have captured sound for the film. The shoot went well and we had our timing down so that all of our blocking was covered in the one shot.
Then we went to process which is always a lot of fun. Its so great to see it develop right in front of you, I mean it doesn't really get much better than that. Our film did however look a little bit dark in the red lit room, but once we put it though the projector we saw a lot more than the little squares of black revealed. I was happy to see that the bee remained in focus and I'm excited to see it once we inverse the colors. I'm really just so into the idea of shooting a roll of film, and then two-three hours(ish) later having a projected/digital copy.
After our shoot we helped group two out with theirs. They had all the blocking done before we got there so we just helped cue times and offer moral support. The shoot went very well, except for when I accidently dropped Emmas phone into the pond nearby (im sure you've heard several times by now). We tried to call it so we could fish it out, but unfortunately Emma must of had the phone on silent or had forgotten to charge it. She was probaly too busy planning the long take!
Overall though very great day, it was a good expeience for the whole class I'm sure and it was very rewarding to be able to shoot, process, project, transfer all on your own.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
48Hr VID RACE
Making a film without using any type of camera or even any technology with the word "camera" in it seems difficult. The most obvious thing I think of is to use Scanners. I've played around with them before, and you can really do some neat stuff. You can warp images by moving whatever you are scanning while the scanning is taking place and the result is a very trippy deformed image. My phone can do video and take pictures so thats always an option.
To think more out of the box though, I wonder If I can get access to an x ray machine. Or other medical scanners. Hopefully, the hospital is cool with that.
I've never done a video race before, but with the mystery prop not in hand it seems hard to plan too much in advance. I could work out some sort of narrarative based on someone going to the doctor, or have people discuss how someone was injured while having the xray images scanned in showing all of the injurines in detail. I really just need to brainsrotm more ways I can capture images without using a camera or preexisting media then I'll have more narrarative structures to explore. I do however like the idea of someone talking over images which provide a visual for the words spoken. There are numerous scenarios that could work for this style and I think it would be a fun way to tie everything together.
With my cellphone/scanner combo. I could take pictures and video with my phone and I could put my phone in the scanner and record what goes on. Or even do some sort of scanner films the phone/phone films the scanner battle. I would be interested to see how an image on a screen looks when it gets scanned. I might just do that anyway. Overall I just gotta do a lot of brainstorming and figuring out some various plans of action. 48 hours is not a lot of time, but I'll make it happen. The pressure of the whole thing should make for a better end result.
To think more out of the box though, I wonder If I can get access to an x ray machine. Or other medical scanners. Hopefully, the hospital is cool with that.
I've never done a video race before, but with the mystery prop not in hand it seems hard to plan too much in advance. I could work out some sort of narrarative based on someone going to the doctor, or have people discuss how someone was injured while having the xray images scanned in showing all of the injurines in detail. I really just need to brainsrotm more ways I can capture images without using a camera or preexisting media then I'll have more narrarative structures to explore. I do however like the idea of someone talking over images which provide a visual for the words spoken. There are numerous scenarios that could work for this style and I think it would be a fun way to tie everything together.
With my cellphone/scanner combo. I could take pictures and video with my phone and I could put my phone in the scanner and record what goes on. Or even do some sort of scanner films the phone/phone films the scanner battle. I would be interested to see how an image on a screen looks when it gets scanned. I might just do that anyway. Overall I just gotta do a lot of brainstorming and figuring out some various plans of action. 48 hours is not a lot of time, but I'll make it happen. The pressure of the whole thing should make for a better end result.
Monday, March 7, 2011
ProjectvsLivingRoom
The projected image was not exactly what I had in mind but not too far from what we envisioned either. There were some parts that once projected sort of lacked the luster present in other segments. Now I wish I could go back and add other techniques to certain sequences like my bleach segment and rayogram segments. For the bleaching, we masked part of the frame which was a doctor talking and bleached the other part. I wish I wasn't afraid of the bleach because the effects looked great and I would love to experiment with it some more. Other things that were sort of an accident/after thought came out great and I'd like to add more. I accidently spilled red ink on my finger tips and started pressing my finger to the strip leaving finger prints. It looked amazing projected and the details were easily seen. The inking segments turned out great. For technique I put a drop of ink on one end of the strip and let it drip down. Once projected it maintained a bright/colorchanging/shaking bar.
The animation didn't really work out that well. When I was animating, I had trouble replicating the same circle, but instead of trying to make it absolutely perfect I figured it might have a cool shaky effect. Not the case however, what was sopposed to be the earth spinning, just looked like a green/blue polymorphicoxahectagonshapething. I think also since I only used 50 frames for this animation, I may have been trying to do too much for a 2 second animation. Its hard to take in everything and appreciate what you are seeing in such a short amoung of time. Next time with animation I will try and pay more attention to detail and go for a longer piece.
The pacing wasn't at all what I expected. Through out the process I kept telling myself, all of these 60 or so frame segments would only be a few seconds long. But its hard to imagine just how fast the film strip goes through. The minute did go by fast however which I take as a good sign that we used plenty of different techniques and styles to maintain viewer stimulation. Overall I think it turned out pretty well. This style of filmmaking is definately enjoyable and still maintains a sort of therapeutic/meditative effect for me. I think the main lesson I learned is to pay attention to detail and definitely go overboard, completely overboard.
The animation didn't really work out that well. When I was animating, I had trouble replicating the same circle, but instead of trying to make it absolutely perfect I figured it might have a cool shaky effect. Not the case however, what was sopposed to be the earth spinning, just looked like a green/blue polymorphicoxahectagonshapething. I think also since I only used 50 frames for this animation, I may have been trying to do too much for a 2 second animation. Its hard to take in everything and appreciate what you are seeing in such a short amoung of time. Next time with animation I will try and pay more attention to detail and go for a longer piece.
The pacing wasn't at all what I expected. Through out the process I kept telling myself, all of these 60 or so frame segments would only be a few seconds long. But its hard to imagine just how fast the film strip goes through. The minute did go by fast however which I take as a good sign that we used plenty of different techniques and styles to maintain viewer stimulation. Overall I think it turned out pretty well. This style of filmmaking is definately enjoyable and still maintains a sort of therapeutic/meditative effect for me. I think the main lesson I learned is to pay attention to detail and definitely go overboard, completely overboard.
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