Film manipulation: reflection and how is it relevant to you as a filmmaker
Our cameraless film project which included multiple kinds of
film manipulation was a lot of work, but very fun. It’s amazing just to see how
little things can really change an image. I have to say that magazine transfers
were my favorite, but the effects of bleach and scratching were just so amazing
and eye catching to me. I can see how it relates to being a filmmaker because
if you really know what you’re doing you can pull off an image that in normal
circumstances you wouldn't be able to accomplish. However, I can’t connect it
to the majority of film projects that I would want to do. I can see how the
color manipulation came in handy, but scratching, bleaching, and all the other
fun stuff we did, in most cases would just take away from the overall project
by being a distraction. So, I’m guessing as a film maker you need to know when
these techniques will come in handy, but it is really something to play with
and experiment with. Actually I take some of what I said back about how film
manipulation could take away some of the overall quality away. Today, in my
History of the French Short Film Class We watch a film that was lost for a long
time, and when they found maybe the only surviving copy of the film a short
part of the film was damaged, but along with my professor I found the damage
wasn’t that detrimental to the film. It was actually pretty great. Some of the
footage actually looked like it had caught fire in a projector and melted some,
but it work for me.
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