6 bai....One : the Zequel

If i were to redesign the course, I am not sure i would really change too much :D basically, this was a nice change in subject matter that ended up being an enjoyable class where we essentially got to play around and experiment with a bunch of interesting and new techniques! this was the first amount of film i had ever shot, even if it was in the form of super 8mm, and for some reason it just felt so good to pull the trigger and feel the click of the shutter going at 18 fps! (thus i am looking forward to cinematography...) but alas, this is my last blogg, and looking back I noticed just how much stuff we actually covered. the scratching, the painting, the one take, the race, 3D!, the rhythmic! Id say the only thing i wasnt too excited about was the re-contextualization of found footage assignment. it seemed like weve done this in other classes (i guess the only one would be intro to editing), but I think that we couldve done something a little more exciting and experimental as we had been doing previously. I guess to me just simply editing stuff is so common now with youtube, and everybody is making personal mixes of footage theyve found and I dunno, I guess its become kinda boring. Maybe something else to replace it? Im sure there are some awesome things to try, though I cant seem to really think of any at the moment... but overall, id say this course is a heaven-sent for the film department, since its lack of production-friendly courses leave many of the students starving for more hands on and sick of papers... guh. so Thank you Dr. Dre for providing a spark of excitement that gives us films students more exposure (pun may or may not be intended :P) to alternative modes of film production. Thats what this world needs, creativity in can. One that can be cracked open as soon as possible. Gracias BLBOLBoblboboblbl.............................................................

Kookaloruss

My experience at cucalorus was an interesting one, brief and yet, still enjoyable. I had gone with a friend to go see the Australian film The Square at lumina theatre right on campus. I hadnt originally been that into going to any films but i figured what the hell why not eh? so we went and were sitting in ther theatre and there was an announcer who introduced the movie and such, but there was a technical delay so they decided to screen some interesting animated (mostly stop motion) shorts. They kept delaying and delaying then they just straight up canceled the screening because the film was wound on the two reels backwards!! that was pretty lame and it sort of killed my already low excitement for the evening. the next day I decided to give it another shot and went to go see Easier With Practice which did actually screen and was quite an interesting film. Oh there was this really cool animation that was drawn completely on postcards sent through the mail! each and every frame!!! it was pretty cool. SO the film was about this guy who was an author on a book tour with his brother. they are both about mid twenties. The main guy gets in this intesne phone sex/ quasi-relationship with a random girl named "Nicole", only to find out at the end that Nicole was actually a black guy creeping on men for years. It was kind of uncomfortable in the scene where the guy gets the first call in the hotel he is staying at because they decided to use a one take that lasted for like more than 5 minutes! and the guy was just facing camera masturbating... I saw a few people in the audience walk out at this point. Maybe looking back I shouldve goen to more films, but I had tons of school work to get done, maybe next year will be more relaxing??

My_ruFF?Theatre

I thoroughly enjoyed the creation of our super film screening fort of secrecy and adventure. it brought back billions of childhood memories or all the sheets and clothespins we used.... absolutely life changing id say. Rough theatre eh? I hadnt heard of that term until this class and the idea of it is intriguing. I remember hearing in a previous class that for some japanese films there would be a narrator who stood up in front and narrated silent films, and this goes for amaerica as well with pianos and other musical accompaniment. And why shouldnt film be an event? are films not just a captured play of sorts? and isnt the purpose of theatre the focus on performance and presentation??? i think weve become lazy in our digital age, seems just a video will do in a darkroom with a bunch of random people.... no talking! thats just silly. i think people should be more inventive with the way they show their films. and they should be motivated to! they spent a long time working on them, so why not get inventive? I want to show a movie in 3d and have people utilize squirt guns or some sort of 4th dimensional interactivities sort of like the muppet 3d experience. Tho, on the other hand i can see why the rough theatre may not be for everyone. I kno i have vowed never to go see the rocky horro picture show, and i guess because its just not the kinda scene for everyone. maybe some people do just enjoy sitting in a dark room, personally reflkecting with the film as it shows... comfortable, personal, nice.

MYSTERY???? werksh@pe reSPOONse

and now may I present to you a world, no different from our own. allowing ourselves to be placed in a realm of not one, not two, but THREE DIMENSIONS wooeooeoeoe~~~~ so this was probably one of the most exciting things Ive done in class since ive been at school. I had heard about being able to do 3d stuff here and there but i never figured we could actually do it. but then thinking about it DUh we have access to multiple cameras so why wouldnt we be able to??? it is such a simple yet ingeinous idea to replicate the way our own eyes work and filming it in the exact same way! next time i try this i want to creat some sort o frig that will be able to accurately hold the cameras in the position they need to be locked down so no movement will mess the image up. There has to be some sort of mathematical equation that you could plug in certain variables like lens mm and f stop and stuff to maximize the success of the 3D look. I noticed when we were looking at the footage, there was a point when the subject was too close to the lenses of the cameras so that the images were way to distorted to create the proper look and this made me wonder exactly what you need to do to make it PERFECT? it is interesting to think about seeing depth in a moving image and how amazing that really is!! it makes me wonder why dont people try to make everything in 3d? and what does the future of film making actually hold if they decide to explore this simple technique or possible even expand on it to bring us into a 4th dimension 0_0. i looked up one of the first films used in the 50's to represent 3d anaglyph photography and although the quality wasn't amazing, i bet audiences back then were stunned into seeing images pop out of something projected onto a wall. god its mind blowing to even think about... I shall have to pursue this further and see what we can do now. maybe try it with the JVC 200's? hmmmmm......