Erren Franklin Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 (edited) Hello! I've had good help here on this forum on numerous occasions, and I wanted to share a film I just made with this community that I think would appreciate the techniques I that used. I shot it on reversal B&W regular 8 film, with a Bolex H8REX4 with the REX4 Switar lens set, an Angenieux 6-80mm zoom lens (with a flange mod done by Jean-Louis Seguin), and a fisheye lens attached to the 12.5mm Switar. I also used a Canon Cine Zoom 512 and a Leicina 8V. All visuals were accomplished with matting, double-exposures, and effects lenses. I hand-painted (actually drew on the film with fine-tipped color pens) and scratched the film. Hope you like it! Edited November 15, 2023 by Erren Franklin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Kamran Pakseresht Posted November 15, 2023 Premium Member Share Posted November 15, 2023 Absolutely beautiful- how long did it take to finish? What was your setup for scratching and drawing on the film, did you use rewind cranks over a light table? This really is just so cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erren Franklin Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 9 minutes ago, Kamran Pakseresht said: Absolutely beautiful- how long did it take to finish? What was your setup for scratching and drawing on the film, did you use rewind cranks over a light table? This really is just so cool. Thank you! It took quite a long time! I scanned in phases- first the raw scan, then I painted a segment of the film and had that scanned, and then I painted and scratched the film again and scanned it a third time. I used a cheap light table and rewind cranks I bought from Van Eck. The frame size for regular 8 is 3mm x 4mm (tiny) so I used a jeweler's eye loupe to orient myself, but it was extremely challenging to try to accomplish detail. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dom Jaeger Posted November 15, 2023 Premium Member Share Posted November 15, 2023 Great work, conceptually cohesive, with lots of interesting techniques in there! I can only imagine how much work this took. Standard 8 rocks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted November 15, 2023 Premium Member Share Posted November 15, 2023 Negative Man by Cathy Joritz comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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