Monday, October 4, 2010

Plans for self-portrate

So, I've recently acquired two 16mm film cameras and I've always love working with actual film and been fascinated by the concepts of in camera edits. So, I my plan is to get three minutes worth of 16mm film (probably black and white, but we'll see) and start shooting. I sort of have a rough idea of certain images I want to capture, but really plan to make more of a sudo-documentary and just go crazy, shooting bits and pieces, making more of fragmented images that mesh together. After I run out of film, I'm going to try to find a means to either projected and refilm it (so as to put into final cut) or just ship it off to get transferred (but I have a feeling that will take too much time). I really plan to shoot very little of me, and take a more POV kind of perspective or style, but may occasionally have a friend take hold of the camera and document me. I'm more interested in the idea and concept of going in without a plan since, for day to day activities, I rarely have any sort of plan and feel like this would be an excellent method to properly create a self-portrate. If I have the time, I also might try a limited amount of direct film manipulation using rotoscoping, painting, etc, but probably won't get around to this. I also want to see how the footage turns out first.

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