Another fun project down, and certainly more to come I'm sure. This past week, Colin and I were able to meet up and get this film manipulation project in the books and had a lot of fun doing so. Not knowing really where to begin, we looked at the assignment sheet and realized that the hardest part would probably be the 100 frame animation, so we got on that first. We counted off the frames and were really amazed how small 100 frames really is. We thought it would turn out a lot longer which is also why we thought it would take the longest. By the end of the animation we (hopefully) have the earth spinning and disappearing, a fire sparking, and some waves crashing. We shall see how it turns out.
The WorkstationFrom there, we basically just looked at what all we had to work with from bleach to salts to oils. we tried to incorporate everything pretty evenly. I didn't get to work with the oil on the in class sample so that was one of the first things I messed around with. We both liked how the watercolor and oil looked on the filmstrip when mixed. Colin worked more with the bleach, employing it onto one of the several found footage film rolls we received. We dug the way the bleach brings out this neon green and hopefully it will turn out well when projected.
Another technique I used was film scratching with a thumbtack. I had a found footage roll of what looked like a straight country road, and I scratched out opposite sides of the road every other frame (if that makes sense). On top of that, I went and colored the sky red and green on respective frames and left one untouched in between, hoping to get a strobe light effect or any effect really.
The only problem we encountered was the magazine transferring and getting them to stick and stay on the film strip. I believe Colin ended up drawing with the metallic marker and it seemed to stick better with that. Other than that though, there was no real trouble. In a basically "anything goes" project like this, I don't think that any mishaps could ruin the whole thing, and there really are no bad mistakes. We both had a lot of fun and not a lot of trouble, as well as got a great experience out of the whole thing.
Another technique I used was film scratching with a thumbtack. I had a found footage roll of what looked like a straight country road, and I scratched out opposite sides of the road every other frame (if that makes sense). On top of that, I went and colored the sky red and green on respective frames and left one untouched in between, hoping to get a strobe light effect or any effect really.
The only problem we encountered was the magazine transferring and getting them to stick and stay on the film strip. I believe Colin ended up drawing with the metallic marker and it seemed to stick better with that. Other than that though, there was no real trouble. In a basically "anything goes" project like this, I don't think that any mishaps could ruin the whole thing, and there really are no bad mistakes. We both had a lot of fun and not a lot of trouble, as well as got a great experience out of the whole thing.
Ready for the splicer
1 comment:
This looks great! Thanks for including those pix.
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