Blog 2: Reflection on Film Create/Film Destroy

Today’s project was fun and reminded me of kindergarten; I think it set the tone for this course pretty well. I tend to be inhibited and overthink everything, so it was a good experiment to get me out of my head and out of my comfort zone. For a project like this, you just have to go – you can’t hesitate. It’s like jazz or improv comedy: just start somewhere and keep saying “yes, and” and don’t stop. Sure, sometimes you hit a bum note, but once in a while you create something that would never have existed if you'd paused to think “is this stupid?” So don’t doubt yourself.

Now, all that inspirational fluff aside… I didn’t like what I came up with today. None of the images turned out to be all that interesting. I tried to go with the flow and “express myself” and so on, but mostly I just stared at the strips of film and scratched my head.

Other thoughts:

It’s hard to make something out of nothing.

Bleach is cool.

Doodling with a razor blade and carving hair and beards onto actor’s faces is fun.*

Yes, 24 frames are always only one second.

One second is very short.

*I mean photographic images of actors. Don’t mutilate actors; they’re people, too, technically.