Bolex Bolex

The Bolex shoot on Saturday went really well!! We went through a lot of considerations before deciding on our final one-take shot, but ultimately I'm very satisfied with our decisions. At first we really wanted to use the trick of covering up the lens with our hands momentarily to change our shot, but instead we used camera movement and reframing to add objects to the frame or change the composition drastically. Our final presentation will be slightly difficult to coordinate because we plan to make it eerie and uncomfortable utilizing sound and touch, but ultimately I think it will be a wonderful atmospheric experiment.

I'm glad I got to be an 'actor' in our project because it was fun to be under a time crunch. I'm really impressed at our director/DP who was calling all the movements, because that would be the hardest job. It's scary to only have one shot at the perfect scene, and one minute can either be the longest or the shortest time in the world. But we hit it perfectly on the mark every rehearsal, so it wasn't very stressful for us.

I'll be interested to see what the rest of the class comes up with, because we happened to finish at the same time as Ally's group, and theirs had a much much lighter tone than ours. Ours was dark and freaky and uncomfortable, but they used really cool transitions and it was overall super bubbly and bright. I'll be very interested to see what their extra sensory element is, because ours will be sound but I could see theirs being something very different. I can't wait to watch them all!!!

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