Forest's Funky Film Blog 6x1

So when I set out on doing my rhythmic edit, it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do. I brainstormed what we could do with my alter ego. I eventually decided on a guy who is very over protective but wants to ride a bike in spite of that. When Porshia came over to my house, I had gathered all my equipment on the table, and went through everything I wanted to do with Porshia. I started with myself getting my gear on, going outside, opening the garage, and getting on my bike. I'm very good at doing stunts on my bike so I knew how to fall properly and the gear I had on helped prevent any injuries. As I was falling down, the neighbor next door asked if I was okay, and I said that I'm fine, I'm doing it on purpose. After we'd finished filming my alter ego, we went and shot Porshia's. I wasn't sure exactly what her alter ego was suppose to be. She had a mask she bought from the drug store, a fake snake and a lighter all together. We started with the lighte...

I have never really work with a film camera, except for when I took a photography class back in high school. The recording with the Bolex film camera was so much different than working with a video camera. When working with film, unlike video, you have a finite amount of film you can use and once you have used it, that's it. That's why it was necessary for us to rehearse our film before shot it. We had set up our film from the perspective of someone in a hammock reading a book. That person would then look up and see what was going on, with someone dancing, two people playing catch, one person waving, another person looking at their phone before the person would look back down at their book. We did it this way so that if you were to play it backwards it would look pretty much the same like a palindrome. In order to achieve this, we had to find a perfect spot to shoot it. We search for a while around campus until we found a spot outside King Hall where there was a tree we could h...

After finishing the Earth Animation for class, I think I've grown an appreciation for stop motion animation. When me and Thomas started, we decided that the park would be a great place to film our animation. We didn't have a specific way we wanted to create the animation but rather, just find whatever was there and create a more abstract animation. When we got to the park, we had to find a place where the where the ground could be seen easily and there was no man made objects. We found a good area where there was more dirt and objects could be seen easily. Once we found a spot, I set up my DSLR camera on a tripod, and used the sticks, leaves and branches around. Thomas placed each object as I shot each picture. When we had taken enough pictures, we took out the H6 recorder and recorded the sounds in the area. We caught some birds, insects and sounds of the wind. At after that, I went home and edited it all together. Moving each picture on the editing Timeline took some time, pu...

After reading through Peter Brook's "The Rough Theatre", I realize my own experiences with film is varied by the different ways I have made films. I have made documentaries, experimental films and narrative films, but each can made in many different ways. Documentaries, for instance, you can tell them by in strict objective terms, doing a "Voice of God" or speaking for a group of people but not letting them tell their stories. You can also create reenactments for events that happened in the past that you want to portray. I did a documentary where we filmed these Roller Derby girls, asked them questions and watched them play a game. Sadly our audio didn't record so we ended up having to trash it but it was a good learning experience. Experimental films, on the other hand allow the filmmaker greater freedom to create what they want and the viewer to view the film in more interpretive ways. There is no right way to make an experimental film, you just explore ...

Visualizing Ourselves... With Crowd Sourced Data was a fun  TedTalk . Aaron Koblin is an interesting fellow because he asks people for data that he can use to create art. He created project called Flight Pattern , which showed all the different flight patterns across the United States, it also had all the different airports in each state. Koblin likes using data to create art because it use a collaborative art in crowd sourcing. Having just learned about creative crowd sourcing in class, I liked that Koblin chooses to collaborate with other people on a global scale. There are many different ways to create art and involving others to play a part in the creative process allows the art to become very different. For instance, in Koblin's project, Johnny Cash Project , had different people draw on each frame as they went by. Seeing each frame pass by, we can see each person's interpretation of Johnny Cash. Another one had each user submit Koblin a drawing of a sheep facing to the l...

After watching the Ted Talk's on Daniel Tammet, I had to applaud him for the fact that even though he is a savant and autistic, he didn't seem like it. Most media portray autism stereotypical and it was refreshing to see someone like Tammet, go above that and even made a joke about how savants are thought as. Going into the Ted Talk, I really enjoyed watching and seeing how his synesthesia makes perceive things differently. When he was talking about how he sees numbers as colors and shapes, I found that very interesting. I see numbers as just numbers, not as a spectrum of colors and shapes. I also liked that he can see the numbers as art, like when he made a painting out of the number pi. Art can be found in almost anything that we can think and Tammet strives to find it in anywhere he can. I also liked his idea of what a word can mean by how it sounds. It is a concept I can get behind and that is how I usually think of words when I try to figure out what they mean. Finally, th...