Thursday, January 22, 2009

on taking and giving

I really like the way that this passage is written, it's very conversational and easily understood, but overall I am definiltey someone that needs to see something to fully understand what he's talking about.  I mean I know that he's really experimental and into the medium of using film but i didn't really comprehend what he was saying about all the different ways of splicing and the splicing bar as a visual effect (i can't visualize what that would look like).  He did give me some insight though into what we are doing in class later today and I'm pretty excited about that, i think that i've collected some random things around the house that will turn out nicely in the rayogram.  i watched a little of dog star man because of all the references but still i'm not comprehending what some of the techniques that he spoke of, how he did it, and how it would ultimately turn out.  I did like though the use of negative film with inverted that was spliced together, because of everything done in fcp these days with all the filter ans easy editing i just don't automatically think about the original way to make those effects, it would help me alot of see them in real life, but reading brakage and watching his work is definitely inspirational. 

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

to the beat

I really enjoyed this piece, it inspires me and gets me pumped u about experimental filmmaking and most definitely this class.  It boggles my mind the techniques and what they do to the film to make it come out that way - so visually stunning, abstract & random yet with purpose like when they incorporated the found footage and framed it with the negative spaces. 
Being new to the medium and especially learning more about digital filmmaking now a days makes it really hard for me to grasp the technique & process of this piece.  I love it, the colors and visuals - shapes, frames, texture - were just beautiful and entertaining for me.  Also i felt a sense of community & collaboration like a groups of people got together, made this wild music and then each had a different approach or perspective of what images to lay down with it.  
I want to do this for the rest of my life, just painting on old films at coffee shops like stan brakage and i guess learn to use an optical printer and make visual paintings on film. that would be ideal, i love to paint, and i love abstract art so why not just make it move and change and have bring colors, sweet.  I mean i know there isn't much of a market for this work but i can enter it in festivals and play it behind concerts and whatever, i mean whoever wants it can have it...and it would be fun and relaxing and i guess i'll have to have another form of income, but that's ok.  
this piece was also really inspirational for me bc i'm very into working with sound, and music to create a rhythm in my work.  or my potentional work...what i will be doing one day.  I suppose my ideal job woul dbe working with sound to create a textured and rhythmic visual 'story' and sequence with painted film and scratching techniques and bleach (i'm interested to see waht that does) and animation, the possibilities are endless. since i've been in this major it's all guidelines and structure to films, but i'm stoked about taking this class and kind of moving backwards in term of learning about film as more of an art form. It's hard for me to think creatively when there are so many elements to a narrative film and there has to be a concrete story and plot and shit, but really i would rather just doodle on some film and make a beautiful, abstract piece of art, yea.