I had a lot of fun the day we did the exposure for this project. Piling objects on the film strips and seeing very quickly how the strips came out was great. I love the instant gratification of hand-processing, and if I didn’t like one strip, I could immediately try again. Matt Draeger and I worked really well together, and I liked our footage.
While I love the instant gratification, I did not enjoy working with the developer chemicals. I tried to stay out of the way during that process. I think the combination of the gloves and the fumes sort of bothered me. Sitting in that dark room with that red light for hours was hard, but I did enjoy exposing the film strips.
As far as the editing process went, I wish we had done it differently. As the fine cut editor, I did enjoy getting to come in and see what sort of theme the rough cut editors had come up with, and I liked being in charge of tweaking what they had done. I’m not sure exactly how I would have changed the process, but I think I would have preferred to edit in small groups. I would also have liked to go into the exposure day with a better concept of what the edit would be comprised of so I could have planned a theme a little better.
I liked how the project turned out in the end, and I’m glad to have had the experience. Overall though, I think this was my least favorite project of the semester. Maybe this just isn’t an area of interest for me? I think I prefer projects with more recognizable images, because my favorite parts of this film were the parts where you could see the transferred images from the found footage. Even though this was my least favorite project, I still enjoyed it!
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