Wednesday, October 1, 2008

What?

First off id like to say that i desperately want to be a scratch film junkie. id kill a gang member to be one maybe some like head light beating initiation of some sort. and i would like a full on knighting ceremony when i am accepted. i feel like they have a secret warehouse projecting hand painted films all over the walls in a seedy part of town. i guess for now ill just have to sit in my room alone and paint on film and play with bleach.i really am very inspired by them tho im soo impressed by the control they show with their work i was watching some trippy smith and brackage hand painted films in experimental today and they also show this super natural ability to control the uncontrollable. The precision these film makers possess in unbelievable. The scratch film junkies bring in the idea of silhouetting actually film and incorporating it into their reels. I really like how they take ordinary meandering conversation and make it into a sound track... i mean to accompany and abstract image you have to think outside the box for an abstract sound for your film. i remember in intro to production i did the sound track for our first project and thinking it was very strange. it was the intro u a weird indy song loop and in the background i put a dialogue of a guy explaining how " hamburgers were his" favorite instrument of eating" i dont even know what that means but everyone agreed that it works with our creep film about a man being chased by a block of cheese. sometimes unconventional is the answer. ive been realizing more than most of the time it is for me. now im babbling but watching more and more of these films is making me want to be more and more into this vein of film making. now that im thinking back i got into actually film making through skateboarding and skate videos when i was in 7th grade or so. My friend bill got Pinnacle studio 10 and i thought it was the coolest thing in the universe. thinking back on how ridiculously awful that program is makes me giggle like a school girl. but we were always trying to make our movies look like the ones wed buy in the store. one of the first skate videos i bought was Photosynthesis this was a film that actually shaped the entire look for the company Alien Workshop but this was clearly the first experimental film ive ever seen. i didnt know at the time what it was i just knew it looked different it used super 8 and 16mm and split screen shots of out of focus plants cut with skateboarding its cool to think about how these alternate forms of film bleed into main stream im sure there a place for film painting somewhere im not sure how this post got here .. i might have just blacked out for 20 minutes .. what did i just write..

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