Summing up Rhythmic Editing

Wow this was a hard project. When dealing with such a small fraction of time you start to appreciate how long a second truly is. I know I ran into the problem where I thought I'd be able to show a whole shot and realized it was like 15 seconds to long. I think my project is good though and I hope the class feels the same time. Gigi and I work really well together. We shot both projects back to back in her apartment (we both had problems being able to shoot at work). I shot a project on pigging out in front of the TV and she shot one that was about the frustration of writing a paper. We arranged our schedules and shot and edited in one day. It was a fun experience. Gigi is very new to final cut so I had to help her a lot. But once she got it, she got it. Each of us gave suggestion on each others project that really helped. I'm excited to see what the class thinks of each project.

Eatin With Gigi shoot

Shooting Gigi

Film in the Rough

The article we read was pretty spot on I believe. I've actually read another book by the same author called "The Empty Space". I have a associates degree in theatre so comparing theatre and film is one of my favorite things. My favorite kind of theatre is done in found spaces. With limited sets and props. I love the idea that its up to the audience to participate, they are not handed everything. The article is about exactly that. In film, when you do experimental, there is a differnt expierance than in traditional. The audience is forced to particpate. Sometimes the stock is gritty, sometimes the message doesn't make sense, sometimes there is no message. I love rough films, they remind us that we're watching a performance. They remind us that film is an art not a window. I've not been experimental films biggest fan but I see its importance. Its also nice that anyone can make a movie. You don't need a Hollywood set and a million dollar budget. Film in the rough allows all of us to be filmmakers. As a piss poor filmmaker, thats exciting.

THe Historic Nature of Bloodshed

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The Shorts at the fest

I went and saw the Flank Shorts on Thursday. They were well made. There was one film in particular I found myself loving and hating at the same time. It was a German film called "Exploding Buds". It was really experimental and proved my theory that all German people are insane. They created a fake forest with triangular pieces of paper as leaves. There was some stop motion as well, which was really cool. I can't begin to describe the plot (there is one but its indescribable). But the stop motion has black ink crawl up one of the characters bodies. Then a girl holds his hand and it crawls up her body as well. Having done some stop motion now I really liked it. The end is insane. You've been in this wild pretend world where there is nothing natural, where everything is wrong from the looks to the actions of the characters. In the end the two "protagonists"(if you could call them that) are ripped from that world and left naked in a real forest. The juxtaposition literally makes your head spin, you realize how detailed nature really is and how much more beautiful it is that anything we could ever create (wow that sounded alot corny than I meant it to). The experiance of watching a series of shorts is pretty cool. I like the idea of 5 films with nothing in common being shown back to back. The films ranged from the weird german one to a sweet story of a father and daughter, to a strange out of time western, and finally to a break up story. Each had unique visual styles and I'm glad I checked em out. I also went and saw the hottest state. It was preceded by an one minute short. This short was really kinda cool. It was hand manipulated film. Animation drawn on the film (I think). Having worked with that I thought it was great. The sound effects were spot on, I found myself laughing at parts and there wasn't even a joke (what is wrong with me?). I'm gonna try to check out more but I might not get the chance. Hopefully though. Great festival. worth the out of state tuition. (Maybe).

2nd Try

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A Work in Progress

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