I really like the idea of making short films and never using a camera. It makes me feel empowered as a motion-camera-less filmmaker. Of the techniques we’ve learned so far painting on film and making magazine transfers sparked my interest the most.
I think it’s cool that some artists are able to control and plan out their ideas more fully when it comes to this type of filmmaking. For me, I’ve been having a hard time trying to plan ahead, while not over-thinking the process. I understand that a part of this medium is the randomness and the anything goes attitude, but I’d like to have fully developed thoughts portrayed in what I make. This feeling of disorganization is probably due to the fact that I still don’t completely understand the medium. I’m still learning what happens when I do _________ to __________. On the flip side, even if I do create a well-organized plan of action, and fuck it up, there’s a good chance that it might still end up looking cool.
I do find one issue with this style of filmmaking, which is how to make it applicable across other genres of film. It’s all well and good to make a film entirely of scratched or painted film, like the Scratch Film Junkies. I think it’d be awesome to incorporate some of the techniques we’ve learned so far in mainstream, or I suppose popular, filmmaking. Maybe, since today everything is going digital, people forget that returning to basic modes of production can also be as innovative as the digital alternative. I know that it’s hard for some people to sit and watch an entire experimental/avant-garde film, but if it were incorporated in such a way as to not be distracting, or maybe just a minute aspect of the film, then people wouldn’t mind.
I’ve seen a couple films recently that have used title cards to break up the film, for example (500) Days of Summer and Amores Perros. Title cards could be a way to slip in a little ditty of scratched or painted film. For that matter, why don't awesome music videos directors use non-traditional techniques. Music videos are a really fun genre of film that everyone forgets to call a genre of film. Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think I've seen a music video that incorporates any of the techniques we've discussed in 6x1. Not including stop-motion animation or cell animation. That's a little annoying, especially because I like music videos and look up to music video directors like Marc Webb, Michel Gondry, and the Mixtape Club.
It's my new creative goal to make a music video, with permission or no, incorporating at for at least 75% of the time some combination of techniques we learn this semester in 6x1. I can't say when this goal will be reached, but it will.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's completed Elements project, they're going to be awesome. I wish I could think of a super-stellar way to re-interpret the elements. Because everyone knows water isn't really blue, but it is always shown as blue, in fact, I think my partner and I were planning on using blue tones for our water section. The only place water looks blue is from space. So if we were going to space to project our films then blue water might be OK. That or if we were in the Caribbean, because sometimes water looks blue there. Fire is always represented at red or orange or yellow. But screw that, what if fire was blue (because really really hot fire is blue to the max), and we showed polluted red water. I want to think outside of the box!
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