A Double 8mm Nightmare: My First Attempts with Double 8mm

[tfunch24]

Last week, I shot my first roll of Double 8mm. The first time I loaded my roll of film, I was able to do it in complete darkness. However, when the first half of the 25 foot spool had been exposed, I could not find a dark place to change the roll so I was forced to flip the roll in the shade of a tree. Also, the second time around, I did not seat the pressure plate properly, so the film shimmers in some places. Not only did that happen, but the camera went off accidentally, capturing my walk down a hill.

For those curious about shooting double 8mm, here's what can happen if you don't load the film correctly:

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/tfunch24/horror.avi

I telecined this clip with a Moviestuff Video Cinemate 20 at 720 * 480 resolution. I compressed it down to 160 * 120 using Cinepak compression. I made the film size small because of complaints from modem users about the gigantic size of some sample film clips that have been uploaded lately.

I set the fps at 10 fps which is why everybody looks like they chased down three liters of Pepsi with three liters of Mountain Dew followed by a pot of coffee.

Tom

[chas_ucla]

Hey, that's kind of cool in a weird sorta way. I'd keep all that unintentional stuff -- the footage before you show the street and then the weird stuff at the end with the stadium. Splice that together, add some sound and you got yourself a stream-of-consciousness art movie. Beats all the horrid "video-installation-art" you see at museums and galleries.

[cameraguy]

That first part looks like you were trying to film handheld while a dog was humping your leg [img]graemlins/dog.gif[/img]

[tfunch24]

That's an idea. Only problem is I'll need to find a public domain avant-garde piece of music. Of course, I could just throw together a collage of sound effects from all my "101 digital effects" CDs.

Tom