The Official Super-8 in the Classroom Topic Post...

**Alex** · September 15th, 2002, 08:13 AM

Anytime someone runs across a class that incorporates Super-8, please list it here.

http://www.solano.edu/webcms/display.asp?course_id=9246

**Alex** · September 15th, 2002, 08:16 AM

Here is a link to the actual class descriptions for the Academy of Art College Super-8 classes...

http://www.smfa.edu/courses/courses....ine=FLM&bhcp=1

Here is another one I just found...but it is two years old, it two is in the San Francisco area.

http://www.filmarts.org/seminars/sch...rs/super8.html

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**Alex** · September 15th, 2002, 08:19 AM

Santa Barbara college also uses Super-8 in one of their beginning film classes.

http://www.csssa.org/D_Film1.html

**jefury** · September 15th, 2002, 05:21 PM

I'm the kid who was talking about my school finding super 8 cameras.

Well, actually... I just found out, that the school has been using super 8 all these years. The project was to make a movie with a cartridge, all in camera editing.

Now that there's a new teacher, the school won't be doing this anymore. So unfortunately, super 8 at our school is extinct. I think I'm gonna drop this course and take film studies.

Oh well, the good side is, now I'll be the only kid in my school using this old school technology!

Jeffery

**Alex** · September 15th, 2002, 05:52 PM

You seemed please by this. On the one hand, you become unique in what you are trying to do, so that is a smart move. On the other hand, You would probably be better off the more Super-8 activity there is.

What do you think will happen to all of those Super-8 Cameras?

**jefury** · September 15th, 2002, 06:29 PM

Yah! I like the fact of me being unique. The whole course this year is focusing on digital. And I'm tired of that stuff, don't get me wrong, it's great stuff, but I want a more filmy touch. The luster and sheen of film!

I think the cameras are in the office at the moment. But I'd love to check them out.

Jeffery

**calgodot** · September 17th, 2002, 08:28 PM

The motto of every Super 8 filmmaker (if not every filmmaker) should be:

DIY

Do It Yourself

Jef, if your school dropped Super 8, do your best to get your hands on those cameras. Check them out, rent them, buy them... if you have to go to the school board to get those cameras, do it.

Then they are yours, and your filmmaking future is no longer at the whim of dumb bureacrats. This will be good practice for you if you ever plan to go to Hollywood. Producers are principals with fatter wallets.

Assemble a group of super-friends and make Super 8 movies. Shoot them in camera and project them (I'm an old dude and this method still excites me). Later learn to edit film - it willmake you appreciate digital even more. Learn to light scenes. Write what you know until you don't blow. But most of all just shoot, shoot, shoot.

You can manage to do it all yourself, given enough time and energy. Money will help, but you have the advantage of youth - adults like to give stuff to teenagers. It makes them feel good about all the bad stuff they do to teens the majority of the time.

Do it, man. And if you need help, post!