Another great session on Sunday, and plenty of skills on display to put to good use this week (18th March) when we will be making a film (or two or four) in one day! We are going to be using the proper 8mm cine film this time, which for many of you will be a rare chance to handle cameras with real reels inside! These 50 foot cartridges will then be sent off to be developed over the coming weeks, ready to show on the big screen on our forthcoming trip to Bradford’s National Museum of Film and Photography! More details soon, so keep checking for updates!
This is an excellent chance to be bold and creative, so bring along your stories and pitch your ideas, because the more stories we have the better! Get texting your gran and find out what Goole was reelly like in the days of Charlie Chaplin and Gertie the Dinosaur! Bring ideas, images, props, and friends! It's still not too late to join! Remember we will be running the session from 12-5 this week to give us extra filmmaking time!
Last week’s experiments with stop motion and film speeds showed us the unlimited possibilities of film, so however fantastical your tales, come and share them! Though simple, these effects are responsible not only for Benny Hill (who perhaps owes every laugh he ever got to simply speeding up his films) but also to many of even the most modern special effects.
The 'Bullet Time' effect used in the Matrix films, was directly developed from these quite primitive techniques. A discussion of Bullet Time on wikipedia gives a history of this, going right back to a 1878 photographic experiment to see if horses jump when they run! (they do) That's from before cinema even existed!
More famously, early monster films like King Kong and Godzilla were made possible through using animation techniques to bring to life their creations, and directors such as Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, The Brothers Grimm) and Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) have become famous for their fantastic films mixing of these effects into their stories.
Their movies may seem a million miles from the silent movie days, but attempts to use animation and live action together began at the earliest stages of cinema. Watch this classic short from 1900 on YouTube and you’ll see the birth of everything from Roger Rabbit to Jurassic Park. It's inspiring stuff, and shows just how much has been achieved in just over a hundred years.
Get thinking about how we can use these creative skills to bring the Goole of old to life!
Only 3 days to go!
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