st. scratch junkies

sick. the way they use the entire frame makes it look like they had way more room than 16mm, or what we used, I mean granite they are probably way more professional and experienced but I really liked the opening with the makes center used to make horizontal spaces where they then add texts, it's really stimulated and confusing to me. one day i'll get it maybe. I'm not yet confident with the animation process, by that i mean i don't really understand the relation of what i draw on the frame and then how it become a progress image...and which way I draw it, how it moves etc. I know you'll answer all that for me when I take modes of animation in the future. I think i prefer the freedom of hand painting and not really having much restriction other than the actual frame, but the fact of not knowing what it's going to look like at first makes it a little more carefree to me. 

I really like their manipulation with the print stock. it looked like india ink over all but the face of the one guy, it was very neat. also I was impressed by the way they created texture in one sequence...it looked like green germs where floating through the film, under a microscope kind of. it was really cool. there was also a sequence of lines that were dark brown and had a cool abstract form and texture that was very visually pleasing, it looked like maybe a bunch on skinny strings that were lightly tied together at the ends to that the space between made them looser and fuller, who knows if that's what they did but that would be an interesting technique the next time i try a rayogram. 

The masking stuff was super too with the criss cross pattern and the small circles with the hand painted in the background. I really like the use of depth on the flat surface of a film strip. It's hard to achieve but I think that they've practiced enough and it shows, i really love their work it is like art and if i had a projector in my house I would just project that onto the walls for my centerpiece. 

it seemed like a slower frame rate too at some points which help to mentally caputre everything, with 24 or 18 fps images just whiz by and you can't fully see or take in everything that's in the picture, i'll be glad when I get the video rec of our elements project and I can twerk it and hold it in some places, it'll be nice. 

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Chion is so right about the way that sound creates mood and an possibly an entire different meaning when paired when an image on screen. of course everyone in hollywood wants to make it seem as real as possible even though it is entirely made up in post production, i like the idea of putting sound to things that don't necessarily make that noise.  But the way that sound moves me when I watch a movie is a big impact on the way that i interpret the film. like scary movies for instance, i dont' really like watching them, they scare me! I jump in the movie theater and I cover my eyes when gross things happen on screen but when that doesn't work i just walk out...like i had to in one of the late saw movies because even after covering my eyes the sound of him crushing his ankle with the back of the toilet i couldn't take it...and i have to leave. and usually when i jump in scary movies, everyone always says it's because someone jumps out at you but really its the sudden loud banging noise or screeching or just really the sudden burst of sound that legitimately frightens me...and makes me jump. I liked the idea of when he was talking about how the sound can be indifferent to the image and that creates an intensified perception rather than an apathetic one, it really makes the viewer more aware of what is happening on screen because the music doesn't allude to anything in particular. even though i am aware of the ways that sound can affect the way a movie is perceived i'm still not sure how to capture that, or make that happen for my films. in the rhythmic edit that we are getting ready to turn in i want to create my own soundtrack that in itself has a rhythm too but i'm not very good with garage band and i'm not very musicly inclined with any instruments (except the tamborine) but who knows, hopefully i'll be able to create something that aides in the excitement of joselyn's actions on screen. 

so far

I think my favorite form of cameraless filmmaking has been the magazine transfers.  Even though i couldn't really spot mine out of the reel i just like the way that the pixelations look projected and I think i have a better idea on how to make a more prominent pattern that is more distinguishable.  It was also super easy which i like too, i know that me and joselyn are going to use that technique in our elements projects somewhere.  I really like doing the rayograms, they were really unique and just interesting, and helpful in understanding the process of developing film but the only thing that i didn't really like about it was that i had no idea what i was doing! haha i didnt' know at all what it was going to look like after the process and i was kind of bummed that some of the objects that i brought didn't make as cool of patterns as i thought they would.  I suppose i just need more practice like anything else, but i'm not sure how i feel about messing with those chemicals on my own...a little sketchy.  I've decided after taking this class that it is imperative for me to invest in a projector, i mean it would be so awesome to keep messing with film and then being able to project it and notice what exactly i've done and what i need to do, i guess i'll be looking on ebay for one soon. I liked painting on the film with the oil it created great speccales that i loved and in the other application it created great flowing mixs of the colors and was just beautiful, i really loved it! Joselyn had some india ink that we got into a little bit but i wasn't able to see exactly what it looked like because it hadn't dried in class yet, i think that it will look great though with our fire section of the elements project, hopefully it will look like ash or soemthing. The bleaching was pretty awesome too, she put it on print stock that we had and it really just wiped it out and then it looked like she painted green and yellow on it, but that could just be the way that it turns out...super sweet.  I'm pretty stoked about the stop animation and workign with the super 8 bc that will be another new experience for me and i think it will be a lot of fun. We are going to try the blind folded process around campus too and that should be pretty interesting...we'll see.