day 3 response

Today’s class session was a little exciting and also a little hectic at the same time. Our task was to make magazine or newspaper transfers onto film. This meant that we were to take clippings from random pages of several different magazines of our choice, make collages onto packaging tape, and transfer them all onto the strips we were given at the beginning of class. One thing we all had to consider was to make that the images stayed within the boundaries of the strips and cross the sprockets or else they would get caught in the projector. My initial idea for a collage was a little different than everyone else’s. I spotted a fantasy comic book and took about two pages from it and clipped only the dialogue boxes and two picture pieces. My intent was to combine and organize all of the dialogue boxes to form a (somewhat) complete and compelling story and use the two pictures to give action to the story. Here’s where everything got a bit difficult afterwards.

The first thing was trying to put the entire collection of clipping onto the tape as neatly as possible without making it look sloppy. It was a quite a task trying to even cut the excess tape off while at the same try to make that nothing else stuck to it because that tape stuck to anything it touched. Futhermore, since I was the very last person in the room after everyone had left for the day, I was forced to proceed with no guidance and put the entire collage onto the film and just hope that it will turn out fine by tomorrow.