The Bolex long take was a scary experience for our group because none of us had experience with the camera before. We enlisted the help of other groups and they really came through in making us understand how to use the camera. We had a lot of fun making the actual film. We had an upside down chin face, pizza, and a chicken mask to work with. It was a pretty silly film.
Developing was easy for us, as we had some experience with that from the direct film manipulation project. The film came out for the most part, except for a few seconds at the end. I'm not sure what happened to it, except that maybe it was slightly under or over developed. After we developed it we went outside to let it dry. Projection was another difficult task, as we kept getting confused with which way to wind the film. Eventually we realized that since our film had to be turned upside down in Premiere anyway, we just had to get it to play on the projector and it didn't matter so much if it was upside down. After everyone had their films projected and converted to digital, we all helped clean up and put equipment away.
Overall, it was a fun experience to come together as a class and help eachother get these films done. It was neat to learn how to use a new camera and how to develop and project it, and to see how it all came out in the end.
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