Scratch Film Junkies response 2

I liked this one SO much more than the film we watched on the first day. I'm not sure if this is because I now understand the process of cameraless filmmaking better, or just because this film appealed to me more. It's probably a little of both. I loved the textures that were created in the film, and I wish I had done whatever they had done for my project! I liked how the white and black lines and patterns acted as a connecting theme throughout.

I thought the music choice was awesome. It really enhanced the rhythm that was already in place by the images. The music was really catchy and made the images appear to be almost dancing. I liked the rhythm a lot more than the first Scratch Film Junkies film we saw because the patterns stayed on the screen a little bit longer, which gave me much less of a headache than when patterns only cover like five frames at a time and it all flies by way too fast. The colors incorporated were so rich and exciting, and they added their own energy to the film.

The live action was incorporated better in this film than the last. Again, I'm not sure if it just caught me off guard on the first day of class because this was an entirely new medium for me and I wasn't expecting to see live action in a totally experimental film, or if I just liked the way it fit in with this film better. I thought the kid holding the video camera was really cool. It had a slightly reflexive feel to it, ironically calling attention to the process of camera filmmaking in the middle of a cameraless film. It seemed to show that there are many different aspects of filmmaking that can be incorporated into any type of film, regardless of a film's given label.

Watching this film right after finishing my own cameraless film project made me realize how difficult this form of filmmaking is. I never thought "well its just scribbling on a film, its so easy," but at the same time, I never expected it to be so difficult to make a film look really good. Its not hard to make a film this way, but it is very hard to make it beautiful, moving, or powerful, which is a similarity with camera filmmaking that I did not anticipate, or even consider before this project.