Novice Filmmaker

I have to admit that I've learned a lot from this experimental film making class. Whenever I signed up for this class I had no idea it was experimental but decided to try it out anyways since I had little to no idea how to create experimentalist films since we only briefly touched on it in 201. The hearing light, seeing sound project allowed me to escape the conventional mind of narrative and documentary film making and allow my creativity to flow. During the sound recording and photography I received a more detailed instructions on how to use the equipment that 201 didn't provide for us. Being able to shoot with real film was very nostalgic but it was more frustrating than I hoped it would be.  The self portrait assignment was interesting assignment in that I tried to allow my creativity to flow. I liked how that everyone had different idea of expression our selves creating diverse films. I could see myself doing a project like this in my free time creating capsules of ...

I liked the animation of Martha Colburn. It seemed like she cut out her animations with construction paper, stitched them together and created something amazing. My favorite piece of hers was the Pug the dog taks about sex education, it gave a lighthearted yet informative view on sex education which was in my opinion more accurate than the videos we were shown as children. Marlon Riggs had some amazing pieces with him backing his films with his black and gay pride. The biggest take away from his pieces was his instructions on using snaps to express emotion. I've taken his instructions literally as I now have snap off with my friends when words escape us.  I liked that Guy Madden took an ode to older styles of cinematography and film making to make his pieces. The use of German Expressionism was obvious but it seemed to fit his surrealist vision. I was confused about his fascination with Winnipeg but I could see that through his pieces Winnipeg was home to him and he was very f...

I absolutely loved watching everyone's self reflection. I liked how vastly different in style everyone's pieces were. Each one I felt like was a true reflection of the creator. With each piece I saw the creator put their true thoughts and feeling into the idea of "Who am I?"    When I was shooting my first problem I had to learn was how to hold the camera so it doesn't throw my subject out of frame (Which happened a lot!) But once I figured out how to do that I forgot how to walk without running into everything. The final trick was creating genuine moments, some people would just instantly be saying some thing and I scrambled to get as much as I could out of it. Some would be completely out of character as soon as I started recording. My uncle who is a very loud man would almost never say a word whenever I was filming.    My biggest wish was that I wish I had more time to shoot. There were so many more people and things I wanted to try to shoot but w...