Saturday, October 28, 2006

Super 8 on the brain

Last night I dreamed I was about to shoot some super 8 film. I was holding the cartridge in my hand, and began to break the plastic lip that informs the camera if the cartridge is color or black and white. I had color film, but the plastic wasn't notched so i had to break it the way you would break the record tab on a cassette. Super 8 is on my brain and filling my subconsious.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Attack is Back!

flicker los angeles presents the 6th annual Attack of the 50 Foot Reels. All the films were turned in Oct 16 and processed at Yale Film and Video in North Hollywood. Keith is always very supportive of the Attack and is a wonderful super 8 ally. Greg at Yale ran the controls on friday as we transferred the Super 8 films to digi-beta and dv-cam. Yale has a great Rank machine where they can transfer reversal and negative. Most of the films this year were shot at 18fps. Even without the sound, I am very impressed by a lot of the images that our 21 filmmakers captured. Originally there were 25 filmmakers, but a few couldn't survive the intensity and challenge of the Attack. Over the next few days i'll be syncing up the soundtracks that everyone has turned in. It's going to be a good night nov 6 at the egyptian so come on out.