my thoughts on film manipulation

hey boys and girls,
well, over all the film manipulation project was a good experience. It didn't quite turned out like i expected it to, but it was still a neat and memorable experience. After seeing the other films during class it hit me how creative and limitless the outcome of these experimental films can be. The ones i like the most were the films that were the most colorful and outlandish. i based my film strip with the idea of creative control, what i mean by this is creative ideas where i controled the out come of the final product. However after seeing all the films the more abstract looking the beter. There was probaly 30 frames the i scratched words and designs into i then added paint over top of, but after whatching the film i never really saw any of the designs that i had scratched show up like i expected them to. But i feel like the finished result did have a lot of interesting "elements" in it and for my first time ever using some of these film manipulation techniques i just remember thinking "not bad".

peace

Dealing with the elements

Ever since my intro to film class with Dr. Kruel direct film manipulation has always appealed to me. And with this project i have the chance and challenge to artisticly represent the four elements water, wind, earth, and fire. Of the four elements i will be focusing on two of them, those two being fire and earth. though a time consuming process i really think that the finished process will be rewarding. i haven't found any snaggs thus far but then again i still have a lot work to do, the only problem i really have is time so far but what else is new. Ill let every one know how things turn out.

peace

so far so good!

SO far i have throughly enjoyed the class. The experimental projects that we are doing in class so far remind of the films i saw in Kruels class a year or more ago when i first took intro to film. The stop motion animation films and shorts that we watched last class were both inspiring and strange. I enjoyed the time and thought that pes puts into the simplest of projects, ranging from the movment of couch change to the classic toys and antique keys in his creative shorts such as kaboom. Since i've already done some stop motion antimation when I was younger in high school with my parents old 8mm video camera from the early 90's. I most used rough clay figures, houes hold objects, or even food such as ham sandwich beacuse of these experiments those short really hit home for me. The brothers Quey kinda of wigged me out did really find it to appealling since i never really knew what was going on!

On anoher note the elements: earth wind fire water project is sick. The fact that im dealing directly with film is very cool. And the more creative options that i have with the film the better. The more scratching, bleaching, magizine transfer, and painting the more interesting the project becomes. This basic form of direct film art is very interesting to me. It's nice to see somthing so raw with out the polish of post production digital effects.