Advanced 6X1

If I had to create an Advanced 6X1 class what material would we cover? That's a very hard question. Coming into the regular 6X1 class I had no idea about the crazy stuff we would cover during the semester. But through my experiences in the class I know a lot of material that I would like to cover in more depth.

One of my favorite projects of the semester was film painting. I feel like it was so interesting because there were so many different techniques that we learned; such as rayograms, magazine transfers, drawing, scratching, and painting. Capturing our images and learning how to use and optical printer could also be a topic we could cover in advanced 6X1. I would also like to learn more about the photoshop version of painting on film, and for our final painting on film project have a combination of the two. In advanced 6X1 we would definitely spend a lot more time painting on film and rayograming.

Another subject I would like to build on would be the stop animation projects. In Advanced 6X1, before the stop animation shoot day, you would have to turn in a storyboard and post on your blog an idea of what you were trying to accomplish. It would also be interesting to explore different techniques involved with stop animation such as learning how to sync the actions of the characters and their frame rate with music to a song.

Working with the old style of cameras, like the bolex and bauer cameras, was also very interesting. If we could have explored more ways for us to learn about how to use those cameras like loading the bauer camera, and the different components of them. Everyone liked using those cameras and especially the look of the image they produced. It might also be fun to extend the bolex one shot project to having each member of the group create their own one shot and combining them all together for the final product.

Since the regular 6X1 would be a pre-requisite to advanced 6X1 we should just build on all the different things we learned in regular 6X1. Since 6X1 celebrates the different modes of the one minute film we should explore more ways film could be an event. The video race was a really fun idea, and I think a few of those should happen throughout the semester as pop quiz's. We could also come up with different ways view films, like they learn in the experimental film class. All in all I would just like to learn more, and go further into the things we had already learned. It's hard to think of new and different ideas for advanced 6X1 since my only experience with this genera of film was completely new to me.   

  

Video Race Evaluation

The video race turned out to be a very fun, challenging project. Not only was it fun creating the film in such a short amount of time, the screening event at Jengo's was also very rewarding. It really surprised me how unique each person's project was.

I attempted to compose a visually interesting project. I decided to use my camera phone to capture my footage. The basis of my images were interesting  textures that you may come across in your everyday routine. My favorite image that I captured was the image of my cookie cutter on a hot stovetop burner with steam rising up from it.  Another image I liked was of the camera moving through the leaves of a group of trees that were lit by a nearby street light. 

I combined these textured images with images that I had on my camera phone of a previous night in a bar, and images of tinfoil that I manipulated in different ways. The images that I took in the bar were images of Trip, Kyle, and Russ, all members of our class, that I thought might bring a few laughs into my project. I also captured some video images of a green light at the bar that was shining on the wall. 

Since I wanted to make my project a compilation of cool images I decided to use layering techniques in final cut pro with images that I altered in photoshop. In photoshop I took the images of the tinfoil and used the magnetic lasso tool to make parts of the images transparent. In final cut I layered images behind and on top of my photoshopped images to created my desired effect. I also tried to keep the rhythm of my project interesting with clips of varied length to keep the film interesting and fresh. At first, I didn't know if I liked the way my project turned out, but it looked pretty nice on the big screen at the Jengo's screening.