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- From: "WeReo_ScoTTy" <scottamerica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:34:04 -0500
The 4 second clip-
Thank you for reading and for trying to help. So what is the content of the
4 second clip? It's just a closeup of me doing an Egyptian dance and someone
with a still camera walking right in front of me from off camera-left to
off-camera right. That's it! And you know the film is the summer of 1973 at
our 200 acre summer sleep-away camp.
Some of the other clips go on for nearly a minute. Still others show me
wearing my denim shorts and honey I can tell you I gotz them 'tweet legs. I
know what they're gonna do with that!
There are lots of boys dancing-
Flailing their arms...I lived on boy's campus not girls! Lol. Both campuses
were equally as large. There are a lot of campers jumping for joy on the
1973 film.
Everyone likes to ham it up for a camera, I guess. Especially a movie
camera. Don't forget I was the only one there with one.
Does anyone know what usages are going to come out of these films? I'd
rather have usages than sausages.
Some of them are adorable. There's awlways lots of usages for adorable
children, perhaps even moreso for 1973 children. In the scene I'm watching
now I appear with two other counselors facing the camera. In the beginning
the one on the left starts talking, and you can make out the words and body
language. He's just joking when he says to the other counselor besides me,
"I'm gonna punch you" and balls his fist into an uppercut. But you gotta
understand he's doing it to Alan M, who is the Counselor God. I'm second in
command to Alan as far as camp lore goes. I'm standing in the middle between
Alan and Jeff H, and me and Alan are sort of making fun of redhead Jeff's
slight overbite. Kids are cruel, man. We're 15 y.o. in the scene. Awlso
appearing in the scene is a group of excited campers. There's one particular
camper dancing there with Alan who is particularly adorable, I think. And
he's hanging on Alan's arm. Then he uses Alan's arm as a catapult and jumps
high right in front of the camera.
What I'm wondering about is, what commercial usage does this film has?
Please keep in mind it's pretty brilliant footage as far as the lighting and
the format goes. DigiBeta is still the way to go today, awlthough these
Super 8s were transferred to their current format in July of 2001. My
reasearch is telling me that lighting was a particlurly important element in
the making of these telecines. Thankfully I had good - excellent lighting
for everything, particularly these outdoor summer camp shots. Remember in
awl the shooting I did, I never shot at night. Which in hindsight may have
been a good thing to do.
I think I had a light, and it was a very strong light. For most of the
indoor scenes. I didn't shoot at awl indoors at the camp. If I had a light I
certainly didn't bring it with me.
There's no sound though, damn! There was no way to accrue sound back "in the
day," At least I as the filmmaker didn't know how to capture sound, except
what I did less than a year later at the 1974 California Jam to capture and
create nearly "the only sound that matters" at that Gig. Don't worry. The
sound will be compensated for during the commercial releases. You won't know
a thing about it.
You know what I think I am going to do? I am going to search youtube for
"Super 8." I can tell you right now 99% of youtube's Super 8 films, and I
think there are less than 200...I think it's a slim to none chance none of
them are bumped up to DigiBeta. You can't believe how much of a difference
that makes. It has increased the quality of the finished product by at least
1000% percent.
Heck, I may appear on the cover of every filmmaking magazine in the world.
Thank you awl for your input.
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