In this blog I am going to briefly discuss the Brakhage article. The article was about the process of making a creative film from begining to end. He began by discussing the parts jobs of film. He then told a story about how motion picture film started. He also went on to talk about the importance and timing of every single frame of film. Brakhage then talked the projector, it's parts, and how they operate. He talked about how to thread a projector, and the interaction between the claw, shutter, and sprocket wheels. He also touched on the flip tempo (fps). He then talked about the viewer or editor. Brakhage then furnished a copy of a letter from a friend who talked about the splicing of film. Among the things mentioned in the letter were different techniques, scraping emulsion, splicing creativley, how and when to use it, and etc. He also spent some time talking about the use of light on the film. Brakhage then talks about hand exposing film in an experiment that he did.
In my opinion the article was pretty informative. Some of the information consisted of things that I had previously learned in other film classes. I also realized how passionate he is about his work. After seeing a couple of his films I can't honestly say I understand them very well, but I know that a great deal of time and effort was put in to producing them.
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Hey Adam,
This is cool for your first article response but in the future, tell me more of YOUR response to the article. You don't need to write so much what the article is about unless you're going to do this in a couple of sentences. It's fine that you don't connect so much with Brakhage's films but tell me a little bit more about why or what it is that you especially don't connect with. Or tell me about bits of the article that stuck out at you for one reason or another. Just focus on your experience as you did in the first entry about film painting/scratching.
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