16mm Film Processing

I was super excited to hand process my own film. It took me back to my days of being in the darkroom which I really enjoyed. I still never understood how UNCW has such a good film program, although they got rid of their dark room because some administrator needed the office space. I wonder how much sense that makes. I really like the demonstration with the caffenol. I like the organic way of doing things. My boyfriend works at Tidal Creek, and he was super excited when I told him that we developed 16mm film with coffee beans, washing soda, and absorbic acid. I wonder how long this method has been out, and who discovered it? Anyways I was really surprised that it actually developed the film. I look forward to seeing how the film looks when we put them all together.

Super 8 Animation

Our super 8 shoot came out super cool. I brought in a lot of different props to use for the shoot. I had various foam fruits along with star trek figures, a troll, a cool indian blanket with rainbow colors and a giant glob ball that is very pleasing to all the senses. The shoot went rather well. I got to use the Super 8 camera like I wanted. I got a feel for it, and now I want to shoot my film in super 8 either at the end of this semester or in the spring. Would it be possible to gain access to these cameras through the school? I can't wait to get them back from the lab. Here is a video by Harry Smith that is pretty cool. I like his animation. check it!

Film manipulation Project

I was really pleased with the way that our projects turned out. I couldn't have asked for a better group than Oliver and James. We all pulled together and made some really cool artwork. Oliver did a great job on the animation series and the found footage juxtaposed with some of his own ink work. James did an awesome job on applying the masking tape and the ink work with the vegetable oil. I did a lot of bleaching on the black strip of film with a small paintbrush and it turned out really cool. I also incorporated some scratching and magazine transfers. When we met up to splice the entire project together last night, we wanted the project to kind of flow rather nicely together, so therefore we lined up the ends that we thought fit the best together, and it turned out great. We even decided to do an animation title at the beggining of our project. We named our film EFW^2+P=C, which stands for Earth, Fire, Wind, Water + Plasma =Crack. It was very appropriate considering we are all crackheads. Good times without a doubt!

Super 8

Looking forward to the multi-plane animation shoot today. I am planning on bringing in some crazy items from my house. I am also super excited about finally being able to use the Super 8 cameras, because I want to shoot a film on super 8 very soon. My dad just found me a 1930's 8mm projector in the trash dump, and he said it was in great condition. I just don't understand how people can get rid of anything, ecspecially an old projector. I am the kind of person that collects and collects until my apartment is a clutter box. I guess you could say I'm a bit of a pack rat. I get it from my grandmother because she always had all these awesome antiques in her house. I love antiques. I feel that I should have been born in a different time, because a lot of things that I own are super old. I found the Brother's Quay to be rather interesting and intriquing. There are so many minor details that went into that type of animation. I also noticed that there was lots of depth to the film as well. Many dimensions..I found my eyes wondering from one corner of the screen to the next...looking up and then down. It was really dark and fascitnating at the same time. It was also interesting to see he faces of other people in the class. some people looked rather disgusted while others were kind of smirking. The props that they used were so twisted and dimented.

Well I know this video of Mick Jagger is getting a little bit off subject of the magazine transfers, although I think it is pretty awesome and wanted to share it with the groups. Clip, snip, tape, punch, dip those strips in the water bucket. As I was working on my magazine transfers, I accidentaly put my magazine strips on the wrong side of the tape. I was really sad when this happened although I didn't let it break my spirit, so I put tape on both sides of the transfer. I wasn't sure how this was going to work out once I dipped them in the hot water for five minutes. When my time was up, I started to rub the tape off and to my surprise, I ended up with twice the amount of strips as anyone else. All of them look completely different. It turned out to be a really nice accident, and now I am going to use the remaining strips for my Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Plasma and Crack project. It was really cool to see the entire classes' magazine transfers and when we ran them through the projector, the water added an extra pizazz! I think that is a word. And by the way, we didn't come here to be with dogs.