Saturday was quite an experience indeed. We had to be on task and execute in a timely manner, even more so while not having our instructor to lead us by the hand. Luckily I had worked with the Bolex camera before, so the filming part was not the most nerve-racking part of the day. I was at first a little wary of the fact that we had to develop our own film, as I have only a marginal familiarity with the subject. I don't know how well the development actually worked, (we might have overexposed by a decent amount) but I'm still holding out hope that our film will look fine. I really enjoyed helping the first group with shooting their project. It was less nerve racking knowing we didn't have to worry about the outcome, but we still wanted to do the best we could as extras. We had a lot of fun working with the other group and filtering our ideas through them as we saw their ideas come to life.
When it was our turn to film we started blocking our idea right away. We roughly set the camera position at first, then adjusted it to get the maximum effect that we wanted from the staging of the characters in our composition. Though after all the rehearsals I'm not sure if we ended up filming the best one, I am still very happy with the result. Our idea may be a little ridiculous, but it was a ton of fun. It's amazing all the things you need to take into account when filming a long take. But once we worked through the kinks and got our film shot, it was very nice developing it and being able to project it right away. It really was a fun time. Especially with the help of Matt and Matt's beautiful masks.
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