if i could design 6x1/favfilm

i was and am pretty happy with the way that 6x1 was set up as in what we did. I loved the projects that where assigend to us. Some of them i never about before the class, well new never had the chance to make, like the scratch films, i have seen some inother classes but never made one myself so that was cool. The people in the class where ok,i made some new frineds and got to work with people i might not ever of had, i am glad that the class was small, don't thing that this class would work if if was any biger. it alowed for a fun atomospehre. the only thing that i might have changed would be no to have it jsut on one day, i feel there was so much info to get into that one night that i found myself onverwhelem especial when one project was compliled upon another before one was even half way throug, but that was kind of cool cuz in the real world i gues that is a directors or filmmakesrs wet dream to know you have something to work on right after you get done with this one or work on them at the same time. all in all, good times, o i might not of let the cheez sandwich thing of happend only becuae it got so out of hand in the beging, i didn't even get to see my project play, the anamation, but in the end after the fight it was fun. Experiance with projects, I'd have to give the second project i worked on a six, becuase it ws the one i had a lot of fun making, working with charlie he wasn't into what i wanted to do, but in the end he went all out and had a ball, i like exposing people to my points of view, and havint them see it is fun bing twisted, i loved doing the found footage things that i did alot, i like them becuae it was all me and that it was diffrent from anyone elese, i got lucky with leary what an act! this is what i am in to, and will contiue to do by myself in my room witht the lihts on low, the others were fun but working with people is sometimes a strugle i loved shooting witht he bolex that was a great experiance i haven't done before, didnt like the subject materail, but o well. ALl in all i am so glad i got to take this class before i graduate, wish i would have known about it sooner!

Yes Men

I just have to break the ice this way, I felt like we were watching a buch smat gay guys turend anarchist. They had great ideas and i loved the hole jump suit that they came up with. Even though the golden rod was a large phalic symbol. I give them props for what they do. as for asinment five, i gues that it fits in to the fact that we are manipulating what exsiting media and make it say something that it might not of ment to say. I love that kind of stuff. I had orginaly wanted to manpualte a film night of the liveing dead but was unalble to save as a qucik time movie, but i sliped upon a video that is a song slah emiphamercial(sp really bad) about VD's vanaeral Diease. when i saw it i laughed so hard that i new that this was the project for me. I was woried to becuase i was going to make bush look like an ass but ihave done that befroe and again said that that would have been a cop out. The thing about the yes men is that they are tying to make people see the evil in what they fight against. by being over the top and outragous. Same as i do with my horror films or other foms of art work. with this viedo ihope to get a laugh about something as serious as VD. but it because if you can't laugh about a serious situation. your not human. There are so many way to get people to see somthing that they normaly wouldn't the yes men take politacle stands againts thing that they don't see fit. I just try to freak people out or to get people to see that man, were all the same, freak normal or retarted. People are people and sometimes it takes someone to piss them off to realise when the lights are out and we are naked we all have skin and share a world beautiful as well as corupt, why the hate i will never understand. (wow i think i just shead a tear)

C. Sandwich

thoughts about that night conflicting, with i like it all but then parts sucked. Let me explain. I got out of class at six ate somefood and went to the jengos, i went in and was told no more room and that the class was cancled. I was like what the F, so i called Chalie and learnd of the email, but wasn't for sure what it ment becase it was hard to hear him with all the comtion, so i got pissed and left and walked down town and went to pravada. Two dollor yenleng, i was like hell yeah, there were only two people at the bar so i talked with the hot bartender for a bit about what went on, she must of felt sorry for me so she started making shots for me that i have never even herd of before, One of them she said would have costed me like eight dollors! I so about eight thirty i call charlie again to see, any news, and if maybe if i could get a ride, no ride he said he wasnt going to get there till ten so i was like man i am not even going to go, the bar started to get people in some of the girls i was most deff going to hit on and the beer keep coming, so at about nine i decided i was going to go and see what the deal was, i had this video in my pocket and i wanted it to bee seen, so i order another cocktail and a beer down those and leave at nine twenty. stumble my way to the place and see a few of my classmates any skip ahead, We get in, everyone is drinking which makes me happy cuz i was a little tipsy and was afraid i would be the only one someone says dollar beer and i am like i am home, i get one and start to mengle, i talk with dustinand his girlfried for a while and finaly the films are ready to show, i was nervouse about my film as i am at any showing, but it was the first one, which i thought kind of sucked becuaese the first ones are always forgot about by the end, i didnt get a reaction really out of the film, it was funny but not ha ha funny like the other kids films, o well i was happy with it. and it turned out to be a good, night, i am glad i went, i feel that the cheeze sandwich thing kind of blew our class out, but it was cool having not just our class see our work. So after that i dipped out and stubled home, feeling acomplished and a little unknown, i am dieing for my films to have a biger impact on people, i dont know hate them yell at me, riot, i am just not pushing the buttons enough i gues, or my films suck really that bad. o well i'll find a way to do eventualy, it was a blast working on my pice, that leary guy gave himself to me, as i watched his interview i was like thank god for timothy leary, he is a cheature for displasure, and manipulation. I am having a field day with archive.org i have been looking for a web site like this for so long, to pratcie more of my foundfootage films, the only problem is how long it takes you to find somthing really intesting, becuae there is so much stuff on there. anyway, all in all if i had to do last night again and again, i would happlily embrace the moment.

My Rough Theatre

my hole fliming profesion has been a rough theatre, i have never really had, until recently had the greatest equment to make my films, but that never stoped me. i remember the first film i made i was like 13, and the hole theme was me saying good bye to my friends, i was moving and wanted the film to get passed around to everyone after i left, it was one of those old vhs cameras, i say in my room made a wearwolf film, it was horible, but i loved it and so did my friends, moving on i met up with a group of cats called Klucking films we made horror films with a mini dv camer and was eding on i movie witich would crash every five min, they now have a film out in cerkit and one of mine that i did make up and cameoed in i hear is making a mark on the side, but what i am saying is i am the type of film maker who dosn't worry about what i have i use what i have, give me something that records and i will make a film i don't even need a story i'll make one with what ever i film, i mean i write scripts but i like to rather have an idea then a concret thing i have to fallow, people are so eager to get dirty and bloody, works for me, throw in a killer of some kind some other adult materail and make the film in the editing room, again this is not professional and i have since really moved away from that but i still just like to go out and shoot, gorila style. at home my cpu has window film somehitn on it and i have made really intresting films with it, i don't have a way show the world so that sucks but i do when i have friends or new people over to my house. what i hope my rough theatre to come is a much more sinester play house, with the tools and a family who dies to make films of the odd and strange and beautifly grotesque.

Molotov Man

This is a great story of how one persons work of art can be taken and made into anothers in a diffrent format. Is is right, fare who is to say. This is america, the land of the rip off artests. Everyone steels from everyone, nothing is orginal mearly a newly shaped mold of orginality. I do belive that joy garnett should have given rights to the orginal person who took the picture, but i do not belive that the orginal artis, photograpehr, should of jumped the gun to ask for permission before each showcasing. SHe should have been happy that the her orginal work insiperd someone else to take it into another direction. I do see feelings hurt. everyone needs the satifiying pleasuer of saying yeah i did it first, hes just copying what i already did,. a nose too the air and swift hand through the clean blond hair. this is an intense photo turend into alomost every diffrent type of propagada it could have been made. People should relise when you makesome thing, that is powerfull other poeple are going to use it. paitings are made to bee seen they have a message, and what the orginal message might not be that to who sees the painting, i too am guilty of taking pictures of the internet and using them in my films. I have about three films that i have made using songs from my fav artis and used pics to conve what the songs mean to me, do i fear posting them becuase of infrenment, no i fear them for content. i would love for the artists who worte the songs to see the video i made, acording to how the song affected me an to what i take from it. but i do not call the music my own, i would give them rights, the images, i din't take them i manuiplated them and as for where i got them, this thing the internet. google images is heaven for finding any kind of pic you want,. if someone put it there it it, i belive free for grabs, unless it is on a .com or .what ever with a direct link to a person name, bio and leagal creadibility, screw them. i see the fight and understand that i too would be pissed if some one, coppied my art, but if someone took my art and ran wit it in a direction i didn't see myself, all i would want is to be cited as orgianl creator, thats it and maybe some mony, but i would be done with that pice and would have already come up with something better and even more cool then what they had redone.

48 hour shot

to shot this i think i may plan to do what i did in 201 with shanon, we used still frame images to convay a story, priacting the importance of telling a story useing the all of what is in the frame. This was easy for me to do, i did n't a short called how to kill a zombie in our groups freestlye in which i wrote, Still writeing, directed. and didn the spf make up for. this is really all i can think of i will barow a regular camera and let the images tell the story, while also using sound as a big soruce of support, no diolge i hate usuless diolge somtimes, espicaly for a shoot like this one could spree up some crappy diolge to get their point acroos but i feel if useing still frame images diolge is unneccessary if one shoots the story right. Actualy i am afraid of this project becuase of how much time it will take and how little i have, i have other classes that are taking up so much of my free time. doing this over two class days is concrrning me. as well if we did this on a weekend i can't aford to take off work, espcialy witht he ecconomy my job is so shaky and i just have to keep it until at lest i grad. as of what i want to shot. man i don't know, of corse i want to do somehing grotesqe. someone will probly die, and the object that we get might be the murrder weoapon, or maybe a zombie spin off, or a vamp short. i don't know something i can esaly pull off over one night or evening quick then hit the edidting lab to make a story. something i can use only a couple of actors who in this case will be friends. damn mabe a love slasher monster in the closet. i don't know. i know that this will be tough and be a lot of work. but thats whats its all about.

filmscratchjunkies2

it was really great to see the film again after have worked on one myself., People don't understand what goes in to making a film untill they undergo the process themselves. I reconsed some of what they did to make what we see on film. THese gues must have a lot of time and a lot of passion in what they are doing, seeing how long it took me and charile to make a one minute film i can now respect the work that they do. Its something so diffrent. Now when i looked at what they do i see not just moving images but hard labor. It fun like coloring in a coloring book when you have an out line and you can color it in any way you want, even going outside of the lines. I wish i had more knowlege of hw to do sound manipulation and more time to learn more tech. It was neet to see all of the classes work I enjoy this style of film making and will keep an eye out to see what the film junkies do next.

Chion

I totaly belive in this article, Sound is one the most important elements of a film. I belive it makes it or breakes it. I don't care how great your film is visualy or if you have the best actors in hollwood if your sound is wrong, the film is a bust. I think that is why i have a problem with many indepent films that i see, the sound isn't there, diologe is fine but its the atomsphere that sound they didn't ad that makes it worthless. i find it weird that our ears regonize things quicker then our eyes but then i think of the airplan eingin in the sky, we hear the jet befroe we focus in with our eyes or the we hear the crack of a ball before the ball is acutaly hit. good sound will enhace the moment even though i like those who play againts that, but again a love secen if due to have is romatic score. sound to me fills up the emptyness that can not be filmed on location. sure you can recored diologe, but even then wind outside forces hider this and one must go to the studio and rerecorded diolge. but i don't belive in the first part when he talks about he desterbing images in persona, if you see something disterbing, as a nail driven in the hand of some one, it will still be visualy disterbing, but again, sound gives it the add shock value i so love. i like the pointthat he makes about film images is like a ventriloquist, we are we manipulate what a audance will see acording to our likings. as he talks about silent films i say sound still plays a toll, yes no diolge but when i watch a silent film i asoate sertain parts with what i know that sound would of made as if where on screen. pluss more so there was usually a musical score, so that again picked up the empty sapace. i belvie that sound has become to familure. we are use to what a pucnh should sound like or a kiss or even a car. i want to hear unusal sounds something fresh new. but i belive the normal viewing audance wounld excetp it. to take a film that scared the shit out of me mearly becasue of sound and not imagery was the excorist(SP!) i saw that film long ago and if i would watch it today, it didn't freak me out for the makeup or the green pea soup that shot out of a possed little girl. the sounds, moans, vocies, music, in that film more it or less scared the crap out of me. and i am not that easy to scare, in that film if the sounds would not of been so amazing it would proably not of done so well. This read was very ture to how i feel about sound and gave good insight to things i haven't thought about. as the thunder rolls at 1/48 in am i must turn my cpu off. so good night and good luck.

getten down on the freestyle

What to say other then it has been a long day, things are going well with the projects me and charile shot for the second project and are going to do so again tonight(There will be blood) looking forward to editing it the whole second project it the style that i am most intrested in, i have two major projects that i have worked on, wish people could see them but they are on a low buget editing sysetme that is all sorts of messed up , those that have love them even though they are severly disturbing. but thats what i am for, i love to shock for the simple reason of shock value. any project tha i do i try to make it twisted, its my nature. i am looking forward to thursday, talked to one of my parteners and we are just going to wing it and that is my faviorate way to do anyhting, just go balls out and see what happenas, funny, charlie just going to be late story of my life, i have had a very hard time in this college finding people to work with, who are relaiable. i have seen that even in a college as this there are still clicks of people that won't let you in, even when i find someone that might be like myself they are already in a group and are stuck up like the rest. and if not, when you do find people you work well with, they are not in my case as enthused about the project. nor profesional showing up late, forgeting equiment. Making me look bad wich pisses me off. But out side of school i find people that love film as i do and want to make films that are not cute and nice. Up early and ready to shoot, Movies fuck yeah! Maybe i am just not college materail. and this is not new yourk so i am not dressed for success in a town stil living in the old sothern traditions, i deal with those that say o i am opened minded i am in college. liars pretending there nice close hide the ape like refection they still posses. Damn a ture freestyle.

Wells Animation

This article was filed with lots of great infromation on about regular and experimatal anamation. In the artcle he explains the diffrences between the two, narativle style configuration and development. I like the explanation of how cell anamation is made and how it is diffrent from experimental. I don't agrea with him about how experimental are tottaly personal becasue and only that person knows what he was thinking when making one i feel that even experimental these films do cause a person to feel and emotion no matter what that is. look at like and dislike feelings, a person may like or dislike an exoperimental film just like some people like or dislike some regular animated films, there for both styles have created some effect on a person. I do agre that the meaning is not as easy to understand unlike regular animated film but that is becuase a regualr anamated film has an easy story with a plot and diolague, if you tell the audiance what you want them to now they will no, it is hard for some people to understand when they are left to use there own imagiation. I feel most people are lazy and don't want everything to be handed to them. When i was first reading the article and he was explaing the convenitions of regular animation and how its all two D and dosn't draw itsslef that it is a cartoon all i could think about was Duck a muck, and blam he brought that up as well, coinceadance? I like animation, and i am worried that we are going to lose it, with all that the CGI stuff coming out. In the article when he was talking about cartoon charaters in reel films i remember the first film i saw like that as a kid, was Rodger Rabit. At such an early age i thought that was the most amazing thing i had ever seen a human and a real person exzisting in the same relm and vice versa. i like it when he talked about the diffrent catch lines of famous cartoon char. like bugs and daffy and so on. I do see the improtance of the catch line and its imprtance to the character. That is what people remember about a character, what they do and say, and how when the audiance isn't watching the show and use the catch line in there own conversation. I catch myself doing it all the time, maybe not from a cartoon but other films. The only proble with this article was that when i went to print it it was prineted weird and small,. very frustrating to read that way

camera less filmmaking

its been diffrent making a film without a camera, Its really calming and not as crazy as going out and trying to deal with actors(wich i hate) and worrying if about sound and well anyone who has worked on set knows i can go on forever. So far doing the scratchfilmmaking is cool. The first day we got our string of film i spent all day at work the next day trying diffrent things to see what it would do to the film. I scratched with diffrent materials and since i work at a piercing shop and have the world of chemicals at my figer tips i soaked, aplied diffrent chems. on it and even tried to see if holding alighter to try and get a burn effect, which failed horibly, the trasnfering tech i found to be a very good way to manipulate an effect on the film. after learning that me and my partner got together for and went to work on our project and did a great deal of trasnfers, i found that if you boil water and let it the tape with the pics on it soak until your hands can bare the heat, the pulp would fall off easier then just normal tap hot water. I have also notice that sitting down with a botle of rum and just listing to some music with your film strip you get lost in what your doing and before youknow it you have done something like 40 frames. I wish i had a projector to see what i am doing on screen and i think that we need acsess to the spliter so that we can put to gether a sequence so we can make our them a little more clearer. so all in all, i know no that saying you can't make a film because you don't have a cam, is a lie and a por excuse for a filmmaker to say.

Brakhage

This was a long read but was full of good infromation. I like how he reffred to the reader as the maker as in film maker. I also found it amusing when he would tell the reader things like if this is boring you stop reading as to do so is a waste of time. i like how he asumed that we as students propbly do not have any equminet, but to get some, and i like the list of things he said to have 16 mm film a old camera from your grandparents atic, its not everyday someone tell you to get low tech equ instead of buying a multi mill. dollar camera, to me that is stupid especialy if you know nothing about filmmaking,. i also enjoyed reading the pathe myth, between him andMelies, i have heard this before in other classes and always enjoye it, he went in to great detail about how film is projected which always loses me, for i am a hands on type of learner, and didn't understand these concepts until i was physicaly shown how cameras work and projection. the paper flicker was amusimg for that is bascily what we are doing on the basicl level. Again when he talked about splicing i had a hard time folowing reading it as in depth he went. but i have a basic understanding for spliceing. This guy realy knows his stuf and i like the way he writes and ingages the reader.

Scratch Junkies

That was a trip, one viewing was not enogh, do give a indepth resopnse for all that was going on in such a short film. I have only seen a few of these types of films and i am a little neverous about jumping in and making several. I loved the movement in the film, there were things going on all around the screen adn it alowed me not to foucs on a centeral portion of the screen. I was watching the corners and the sides looking for somthing that my mind was telling me there was, i started to see faces or what i thought should be faces. I didn't see a message in the film. Maybe becuase i am knew and use to film making a statement, not saying that this one doesn't. I mean i am use to going as far as making a film with stock or found footage and manuplating in a way to say something. This film says something with color and shapes and movement of all. Hoepfull i will become more aware to what this type of filmmaking is showing as the class moves on. In other hopes this is my first time bloging on this site so i don't even know who will see this. All in all good film and i am eager to see more and make some myself! Dustin Ivy.