I'm back (at least for this week)

[Boingonut]

Well now that school is over I once again have time to post and not just lurk! For this week at least I know I have nothing going on which is something that I am having trouble adjusting too. Next week, welll...I might be starting a whole new film project that will keep me busy most of the summer so that should be fun. Anyway I just wanted to let you guys know what is going on in my life now before I become super busy again!

Mostly for the last 3 months I have been working on my film, I spent many nights in the basement of CalArts slaving over a flatbed editor. I had to compleatly re-splice my film when I spliced it all together backwards the day before I had to present it (live and learn I guess). So I was up all night the day before I had to show it in class re splicing the damn thing! It sucked big time! The film is a project for a class I took that you learn to prossess your own film and some of the film I did not prossess right and so it turned out weird but at the same time kind of cool. But lucky for me I was able to make it work in the loose naritive of the film. Oh and the film is about the state of mind a person goes into while having a seizure. So for the last 3 months my hands have smelled of devoper and fix or have been cut by razor blades from editing (no wonder everyone uses a computer to edit now, all you have to worry about is tired eyes!).

I also have been trying to get a new 16mm motion picture camera. I decided to get an Arriflex 16 BL. After nearly getting riped off 2 times on ebay I found one that was not a scam. The BL is a great camera for a student like me. You can have a crystal sync motor on it so you can sync sound to it and it is blimped so it runs quite unlike the Arri S or Bolex. It is not high speed like the SR's and it can't be updated to super 16 but it will be a nice camera to get me through the rest of filmschool without haveing to wait to sign up for a camera from the school cage. And the coolest thing about it is it looks like a full on motion picture camera! So in a nut shell it is a great camera! The one I bought is coming from Miami so I can't wait to get it. I also bought $500 worth of film (about 2000 feet, or and hour of film) so I am looking forward to shooting it!

I have had other little projects as well. I have this Disneyland think I have been doing with my Bolex (also a 16mm motion picture camera). I just got the work print back from the lab or shoots I took about a month ago and it is looking really good, it has about 2 times the amont of color in it then my old video shoots that I made with my 3ccd camera. I also have this stream of awarness film where I have taken 5 b&w single shoot disposable cameras and I have been taking random shoots of things I notice or am interested in in an effort to capture what my everyday expeince is like. I am going to then going to prosess the 35mm film from the single shot cameras and lay them down on 16mm print film and make a one minute film out of it all!

I am glad to be done with school but I really want to keep myself busy as an artist since I have never felt more creative then I do now so I want to try to get as much as I can out of it!

So yeah, thats it, all that I can think of at the moment anyway!

[mhrc4]

heh, cal arts is up the hill from my brother in law, he lives right on the golf course....

anyhow, good luck with your movies, i have recently been involved in doing still photography for 2 short films, and i know what a process it can be - best of luck with it, and drop me a line if you ever need anyone to do still photography for you!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Wow, they still make you learn how to develop film by hand? When I was in library classes and they made us learn how to make cards for card catalogs, I couldn't stop rolling my eyes because it's all on computers now. I guess I'm just lazy like that.

I love all the technical stuff in your post. I keep thinking that one day I'll write a movie script because when I write I see things from camera angles. I dig photography too.

It's good to have you here, even if it's ever so briefly! Good luck!

[Boingonut]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Wow, they still make you learn how to develop film by hand? When I was in library classes and they made us learn how to make cards for card catalogs, I couldn't stop rolling my eyes because it's all on computers now. I guess I'm just lazy like that.

I love all the technical stuff in your post. I keep thinking that one day I'll write a movie script because when I write I see things from camera angles. I dig photography too.

It's good to have you here, even if it's ever so briefly! Good luck!

Sorry about the technical stuff, it is hard not to speak "filmspeak" or write it I guess . Oh and no we did not have to take the class, prossessing your own film is a thing that experimental filmmakers do a lot of and since I am getting into the avant-garde it was something I was really interested in taking. CalArts may be one of the only schools in the world that bothers to teach stuff this so I feel really lucky to learn it. It really makes the film very messy but it looks really great too. like an old movie! The films that are made this way are a form of movie art I guess you could say and you kind of have to look at them as abstract art. It is something that experimental filmmakers like Stan Brackage and Michael Snow did a lot of and in the more mainstream Andy Worhol. It is also used in some music videos like the one of the new Green Day videos used it. Also as a filmmaker it important for me to understand every step of the prossess so when I take my film to the lab I can let them know what I want done to it or what I don't want done to it from work print to answer print to release print!