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My Experience with the Bolex long take

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 hang the hammock. After that we gathered some people from class, and then placed them where we needed them to be during the shoot. Once we had taken care of that and shot the film, we headed back and developed the film in the black box. The black box was interesting experience because we had to be in complete darkness in order to develop the film. I now know how blind people feel. A week later, we saw our film on the projector and it turned out very well. In the end I think using the Bolex was cool because we made a old looking type of film and shooting it with my group was so much fun.

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