Group Film Progress

[cameraguy]

I'm curious if the support is still present for this project? I looked over the old threads and found the following list of members who showed interest in making a short film of their home town.

Alex
LAmind
Bossjock-dp
Daveduck
Zeroyak
Cranium
BolexPlusx
MikeyB
dr.sanchez
reg8mm
toad_dance
Scott Spears
jerfury
cameraguy

I'm cameraguy and I know I am working on it right now and should have shooting completed within a few days with the exception a snow shot or two when and if it snows soon enough.

[Alex]

I'm still behind one whole project. I have to finish a previous project before I can start this one. But I expect that will be by the beginning of November.

[dr.sanchez]

I shot 80% of it yesterday. Twas a lovely day in Reno to cruise around with my S8. One problem I had was those darned people on the street were too courteous. If they saw my camera, they would wait, or walk around me, and try not to get in the shot. I was shooting street scenes and wanted people walking in front of the camera, etc.

My mini-story is about a pregnant woman, down on her luck, who arrives in Reno. Nothing goes well until she finds 3 silver dollars in the dirt.

You'll have to wait til next year to know the ending. The hardest part of the film was finding a girl 7-1/2 months ago willing to let me make a baby with her. I'll do anything for my art.

[Alex]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor=""><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Alex:
I'm still behind one whole project. I have to finish a previous project before I can start this one. But I expect that will be by the beginning of November.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, I finished my Super-8 project. It was for the Flicker Fest. Between prepping, planning, logging, and shooting, over a month went by.

I had a digital frame counter made and I was going to do a frame accurate "music-video" style of film. My digital frame counter literally counted every frame I shot from 0 to 3,500.

We're talking a serious committment of time, effort, and money.
Breaking down the song I chose letter by letter on paper, then logging the music timings via a time-coded video, then translating those time-loggings to Super-8 frame numbers. Wow!

I did not rank cintel the film and add the sound for my project until the day before the Flicker Fest.

I had been in contact with Flicker Fest throughout my filmmaking venture, and they assured me that they would not show the film since it was past the submission deadline. [img]frown.gif[/img]

However, I decided it was very important that I finish my super-8 film. So, after 35 hours of single frame night-time time-exposure work, I finished. And as I had stated I would to Flicker, I made sure I got the film done before the day of their festival so that if they had a change of heart, they could still show it.

The film came out practically exactly the way I wanted. Yale Film Labs did the Film Developing and Rank Cintel Transfer. And yes, I maintained sync thoughout! I simply hit start on the CD at the beginning of the transferred super-8 film to video, and watched as my project held sync throughout!

As draining as the super-8 film project was, (I turned down a couple of paying jobs to get my super-8 film done, even as I spent more and more money to get the film done the way it needed to get done) what drained me the most by far was not having it shown. :wilted

[Mike Buckles]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to drop out...my "dear" wife announced about 2 weeks ago that she's divorcing me after 15 1/2 years, and it's a really bad time for me emotionally and financially. I don't know if I will have internet in my new place right away, money is going to be super tight for me due to the child support i'll be paying, but I hope to rejoin the discussion sometime next year when this is over and I feel better. Thanks for all of your help, you're all good people, and your passion and fervor for super 8 is great! Take care, Mike

[Greg Crawford]

I started to put together a little film for this project, and my film has gotten bigger and bigger about 12-15 pgs. now.

I've shot 40 percent ....and don't see how I would be done in time. I've posted about this film in the past how I am now thinking of shooting the opening and closing shots in 35mm. Turning this project into a 35mm film with Super 8 flashbacks. Some Super 8 purists might not like this idea.

Sorry to hear about Mikey B.

[Alex]

I'm still stuck on whether to redo my Flicker film that was not shown at the Flicker fest (even though I prodigiously begged) because I could not get it done by the deadline, or do something new.

If I redo the film, it would be because I need to take out the credits thanking Flicker [img]tongue.gif[/img] . I don't know if the film fits the criteria laid out for the group film project. Although it does show off the nighttime lights of LA, and it would be a finished Super-8 film.

Maybe we can "converge" the different entries onto a film festival of choice. (although I prefer it be a Super-8 festival that will do high quality video projection).

We could all mutually enter the same festival.