6x1 part II

6x1 part 2....... i dont even know what id do for a part 2. umm i was watching some other experiemental shorts on youtube just to see if there was anything done that i wanted to learn how to do and we;ve actually gotten to do everything i wanted to do. one of my favorite parts of this class was getting to develope our own film so if anything i would jsut spend more time doing that....more time filming with actual film and then more time developing it. but given the time constraints of the semester i guess we spent all the time we could on it. oh wait ok if i could have a 6x1 part 2 i would make it two semesters that way i could spend more time working directly with film and then i would have mroe time with the found footage project. i actually just started that the other night and its really cool but i wish i had more time with it. maybe like do it in pieces of something..i think it would be funny to split it up and have one theme and the neach person in the class put together a little 30 or 45 second clip and then after we turn them in, put all the clips into one film and see what the outcome would be...im guessing it would be hilarious! but then again that kind of thing would take more time and the semester is only so long so making the class into a year long 6 credit kind of thing i think would be great. its such a fun class as it is, making it longer would only make it better. after taking shannons experiemental class last semester i knew i had to take this one because i fell in love with experiemental film. the freedom of it is amazing and i love how beauiful the art of each film is. i wouldnt change a thing about how a 6x1 class would be, i would just make the class a full year so each thing....shooting on film, manipulating the film, developing the film, everything, could be drawn out and done longer

mystery workshop...

when i got the mystery prop i sat with it in my kitchen for like 30 minutes thinking "what the hell" then a "lightbulb"...har har...went off and i was like ohhh i can have a real life situation here just using the lightbulb. the situation is the blue lightbulb man is first seen having um, relations with the big darker lightbulb prostitute, then his big wife lightbulb walks in and catches them. he chases her out of the room while the prostitute crawls back in bed, only to light a cigarette and chill there for a bit. the wife walks back in the room and gets into bed then slaps the prostitute, the ciragette flies out of her mouth and she falls off the bed while the wife walks back out the door. the wife drags the blueman to couples therapy and they are seen in the car and the nin the office. their therapist is a wine cork that asks them various questions about each other, they then realize they still love each other as the wine cork therapist slaps soeme sense into the blueman. the lightbulb couple leave the thearpist hoping to start over only to return to the prostitute still smoking her cigarette in the couples bed. the woman walks over with a blunt object, slaps the prositute, her and her husband, uhh, make up...which shakes the house, and the wife picks up the prostitutes cigarette and finishes it. wooooow now that ive written that down and read it over my plot is kind of violent and pretty vulgar haha its funny though. im not sure where the thought of this came to me, i guess i started with thinking of what kind of dialogue would be funny with this. i knew i wanted to do stop motion and i just watched the proposal for the 20th time so i really wanted to use some kind of dialogue from that movie because its so funny. the prostitute idea came because i wanted to have the two lightbulbs in therapy so i could use the credits scene in that movie and everything else with the bed scene and driving and sex scenes just fell into place.

The Yes Men

i thought The Yes Men was absolutley hilarious. kinda sad at the same time....just shows how dumb some people can be. it really proves a point that just because someone is in a suit and has a name tag that has some letters on it, they can get people to do almost anything. i love how the college kids were the only ones to call the guys out on their bullshit which is what they wanted from everyone. i bet if they were in that same situation from the university in another country those people would have just nodded and accepted that, hey...maybe eating recycled shit isnt so bad, these guys from the WTO do it. these men are changing the world even if they dont realize it. well at least changing it for younger people who can learn from their films and see that just becuase someone is wearing a suit and a nice watch, they too can be full of shit.
this film relates to assignment 6 because in the guys powerpoints that they used in their conventions there were several random clips of found footage that they mixed with animation. also, i think that making the gold suit, even though it isnt film found footage, that piece was made as a visual diagram and made from scratch so in a way that is just as much a piece of found footage as a film clip. their whole presentation, whether it was film clips, still photos, suits, animation...whatever they used was like making a film using recycled footage. they put all these visual aspects together and entertained people. ive noticed the clips we've watched in class as often political and these guys presentations were political..they were after all, impersonating people who work for the government. even if the corporate world took the ridiculous things these guys said and went with it, at least the college kids, who are the future, spoke up.