day 2 response

Today was a good day in class for 6x1. We learned the basics of how to make film by playing with four different strips of film, and then having to design them any way we wanted. Since 24 frames of film equal one second of screen time, our objective was to count 24 individual frames from the strips we were given so that they could later be cut and spliced together with each other’s strips.  This was a real interesting technique for me to learn, since this was the first time that I have done this before in the FST program.

Before this class, I have had experience seeing what actual film looks like, but I never had the opportunity to actually see it up close and work with as a project. I worked with James as a partner and together we collaborated on several film strips at a time. The first one we worked on, we were just randomly doodling on it with green and magenta ink, two Sharpies, a star-headed hole punch, and gold and silver glitter glue. The next strip was one that I personally worked on myself. The strip had frames of a man and a doctor, and my idea was to “literally” scratch the doctor’s head off, therefore calling him “Dr. Headless” or “Head(less) Doctor”. It took a while for me to, very carefully, remove the head and also add red nail polish to the shoulders to give off the look of blood. The very last thing that James and I did was to cut and splice the film, which James taught me how to do, and do properly. This was a valuable trait to learn that might help diversify myself during the rest of the course this summer.