3D Shoot

So I've had really mixed feelings about the 3D shoot. At first I was a little upset with the idea at first because since I can only see out of my left eye I actually can't see 3D, especially the red and blue 3D. I felt a little sad at first since I knew I was going to be working hard on something and I wouldn't be able to see it. I got over that pretty quickly though. I had a lot of fun with this project. I really enjoyed making all the props out of card board, and constructing a story around our ideas. I think my whole group had a lot of fun creating our story. I had a lot of fun acting in it as well, even though I'm not usually someone who's in front of the camera. Our group did struggle with our story ideas and also finding times that all of us could meet together, but we all pulled it together in the end. I hope that our film will come out well. I am anticipating some problems with editing, but I'm hoping they won't be too hard to fix. I suppose we will see when we come to that. I hope that our 3D will come across to the audience. Unfortunately I won't be able to see it, but I can just hope that it looks good.

The Rough Theater Response

Nothing is perfect, especially in art. If you ask any artist what they think about there work, there's always something they say they could do better. That's the beauty in art, though. I worked on a music video in my experimental class last year and the film ended up coming out super over exposed. Some of the shots we got didn't even show up. I was so disappointed, but my group and I ended up editing it together and working around that issue. I feel like the video still is good, even though it is over exposed. Of course I wish that it had come out exposed properly, but nothing can work out perfectly. We are only human, we can not create perfect art. On the stage there will never be a stage show that is completely perfect. Maybe a singer flubs a note, or an actor forgets his lines. That's what makes it so interesting, you will never see the same show twice. Everyone has imperfections, that's what makes the world unique, and that's what makes our art unique. Film makers who strive to create the "perfect," film, aren't creating films that are unique and different, but that are all following the same pattern. I think these are films that will become very boring. Perfection is overrated.

Long Take Experience

So I was really excited about the long take and I had a few different ideas when I thought about it. I was really excited when my group decided to do one of my ideas. I was also glad that they put in many new ideas of their own. I was really nervous about working with the bolex again especially since my first experience with one didn't go so well. I also was a little nervous about processing because I thought it might end up not turning out right. So when we worked with the other group I tried to figure out ways that we could time ours out right and make sure that we would make a good time. I also was trying to plan out how our shoot would go. I was excited to see the first group's film come out because I knew that we would be able to do it right after that. So we went out and blocked our scene and it timed out perfectly so I was really excited. I loved our story about the stalker who chases after the girl he likes, but also plans on murdering her. I think our take went really well and we had a really unique concept, especially shooting it mostly in point-of-view shots. I was thrilled with how our film came out as well. It looked really clear and also had good contrast. It did seem like the film had skipped a couple frames, but it wasn’t something I was going to panic about.

Cameraless Filmmaking

So if there is one thing I have to say about film manipulation it is time consuming! I was surprised how much longer it took than I was expecting. The animation was extremely time consuming and I also had a hard time fitting my drawing in the frame. I had a lot of fun doing the magazine transfer. I really enjoyed finding the images and putting them together like a puzzle. I didn't really like doing the bleaching and painting of the film strip. I found that part a little repetitive and tedious. Also after doing the contact printing and rayograms I was really disappointed that most of mine didn't actually show up. I ended up bleaching and painting those strips as well since there wasn't much on there. I was really disappointed that many of my beads, salt, and other items didn't show up at all. Overall I didn't do as well on this project as I had hoped. I really had high hopes for it, and I didn't feel like it went the way I wanted it to. I also wish that I had more time to work on it in class with the materials we had in class. Ethan and I had to find our own paints, and I'm not even entirely sure we got the right kind. I feel like if I had more time to work on this I would have felt a lot better about the final product. I just felt so rushed, and stressed about all these different projects that I barely have time to grasp a handle on them.