Sunday, March 9, 2008

Doot Doot by Freur

What a band. So after watching another film scratch junkies film I'm still a bit dumbfounded by how busy their film St. Louise is. It's like looking at a chemical equation and balancing everything out. I know how to do, but looking at it all at once confuses the shit out of me. I use the chemical equation as an example because CO2 is flashed in this film. Ok, having some knowledge of this medium now, I am able to possibly find the makings of this project. Well the film strips are painted with what i'm thinking is mixed with magazine transfer. One aspect of this film is how they use phrases horizontally, not vertically. What i mean here is that you can read what it says left to right/right to left so it appears that words are moving in and out of the frame. This seems challenging and something I would like to try in the future to see if i could keep that sort of flow like film scratch junkies does so suave.

There is one piece of this puzzle that i can quite put my thumb on. That piece is the animation done with white lines. The only guess i could make would be...yea i can't think of anything. My only guess would be drawing with a white and black marker? Perhaps? Might ask about that tomorrow cause it is bothering me. At one point there is a truck and a boat that move back and forth across screen. My only guess to that is that they are stickers? I'm so bad at trying to figure this stuff out. This stuff still blows my mind. Even in class watching other projects I was fascinated by what i was watching. I myself just guess on what things will look like, and guessing how other people's films were made is like shooting in the dark. This is all still challenging for me to figure out what one form of film manipulation will look like versus another. It is manipulating my mind as well.

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