Respone

It was cold. It was raining. I mean seriously, it got up to 70 degrees in the prior weeks and come the Saturday we shoot outside its pouring and its freezing. Luckily I gained access to an umbrella and soldiered on.
Aside from the weather I'd say the most difficult part of this assignment was coming up with a coherent and interesting idea that worked in a 1 minute long shot on campus. I helped with one of the first groups to shoot which came out well but was too short. I just knew i wanted to use a car dolly. When our time to film came we piled in my car and looked for a spot. Upon finding a good location behind a building next to a trash can we began looking at ways to utilize the spot to its full potential. Once we had everyone out there and throwing out ideas we starting rehearsing. I think we did one or two practice runs before we actually shot. The transition to the car was a little rough but it all looks smooth in playback. The film quality leaves something to be desired but understand that its tough to transfer to digital. I was very impressed with how well the developed film came out. Once transferred to video and inverted and slowed down it really looks good. Our F-stop setting was right on for the darker shots in the trees but it became to bright as we drove out into the parking lot.
I'm pretty excited about what im going to be able to do with the sound on this project. Im thinking jungle sounds and having the performers record unintelligible grunting and celebretary noises.
I really like shooting with the bolex. It's not ergonomic at all and the camera itself is very noisey. It's fun because you only get one shot at it so you have to make sure everything is perfect before hand. I cant imagine working on a hollywood feature scale with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of film on the line. Maybe one day we can have a 35mm project to do. That would be awesome.