Saturday Shoot

definitely skipped this blog last week and did the readings by accident so ill talk about my experience from the saturday shoot for this one....wayyyy better than i thought it was going to be. since last saturday was pretty much the nicest day we've had since last summer i came to school not to pumped cause i wanted to go to the beach, but as soon as we started filming, i ended up having so much fun. my group was in the second shift so we helped out with the first groups for a bit. i dressed in a scuba outfit which i must say was hilarious and looked for treaure for one of the films. it was really interesting to see other groups ideas for their films and then watching them be played out. it was pretty hard to walk or actually run in the flippers but it all worked out and ended up being a great little film. ive used the bolex in shannon's doc class so im fairly familiar with how to use it so some others in my group shot our film. we started in the woods with a few run throughs without the camera following just to get our moves right. courtney skipped through the woods as little red riding hood while the rest of us played other fairy tale characters trying to attack her..its pretty funny and i had a lot of fun shooting it. When we got the scene blocked the way we liked it, we shot it and it ended up looking really good.
in the classroom, learning how to develop the film was really interesting...i kind of had an idea of how to do it from the first project we developed but this time i was much closer to the front so i could actually see what was going on...a great thing to know. watching it on the projector was so satisfying to know that our hard work had payed off. all the films looked great and i cant wait to see what the editors in our group do with the final product. i also enjoyed shooting with the 8mm camera. i have a super 8 that i play around with but ive never even seen a regular 8 camera so that was awesome as well

Readings...

i love everything about the first painting in the Molotov Man reading...begining with the off centered image. his face is my favorite. its so full of anger, and his eyes are so real. you can almost understand why he is throwing the molotov cocktail adn you dont even know a backstory. the way she took a photograph and painted it gave a texture and i love that the background is greyed out too...so beautiful. the embrace photo is so moving. her work is so emotional, i love it. the whole copyright issue sucks because of how beautiful her work is...i get it though, maybe she should have gotten permission to recreate the image in a painting..i mean, what an awesome photo to begin with, guess i would want my work credited too...the argument this painting started is very interesting..copyrighting with a purpose almost. when the photographer wrote back she was saying how her purpose was completly different than what the painting was saying, which in a way makes the painting different from the original completly. art sends a message...its cool how the same image in different modes of art depict different messages yet just by looking at the mans eyes it is the same. love how the image has been put on everything now though... even religious stuff cause the guy is wearing a cross.
the other reading was kind of weird.. not as interesting to me as the first one but had some really cool pictures..the one of the man made up of people was very neat...love Andre Breton's quote, totally agree. putting objects out of the context we are familiar with helps me see or i guess re see their beauty all over again. you can see aspects of things you never saw before and find new meanings

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so im kind of behind and cant do any of the blogs for tomorrows class. i havent seen the scratch film junkies film for week 6 blog and didnt get the assignment sheet for the 49 hour video race so before i shoot out ideas i wanted to get a better idea of what it is first...i have had some stuff going on at home but im back now so hopefully can catch up on all blogs by next week