The whole process of loading the film, making sure it was feeding right, and taking care not to expose it too much, really made me feel the pressure. I can't even imagine the stress loaders had, when people only used to shoot on 16mm. If they fucked up, everything was screwed. That's some serious pressure especially when it comes to making features.
I'm also kind of sad that I'm a senior and this is the first time I've actually worked with 16mm. I feel like that should have been more a part of my education. However, I do understand it's expensive, and the funding for buying film stock just isn't present. So I'm very grateful that I did, in fact, get to work with the Bolex on Saturday, even if it was only for a little bit.
The planning of the shoot was crucial, since we only had 56 seconds to accomplish something. And I think our skit with the magic tent played out beautifully. It's weird to think that we created a complete narrative in that little amount of time. At some times I felt like I was channeling the Lumiere Brothers or Melies, to think that they used to only make films like we were on Saturday blows my mind. That's pretty incredible. Not only that, it's incredible how far filmmaking has come since then, a little over 100 years?! That's nothing!
After we were all done, I liked watching how the other groups used their time and how some of us came up with similar ideas, theatrics. It was really neat how we all helped each other out. I've really enjoyed to community we've built in our class and how we are all keen to pitch in where needed. Teamwork, fuck yeah!
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