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