I bought a super 8 camera !!!

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Here, I uploaded a ten-something second test portion on Youtube (see how low quality the video is? Jesus... ):

[youtube=425,350][/youtube]

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zQzv3AzSKLM

It sucks not being able to edit posts.

[Melissa]

I'm not nearly finished yet. The above are just taken from some test shots (which, since we liked them, will go into the finished piece).

Looks good, Shake.

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Shit, the video doesn't even fill up the screen...

[Melissa]

Shit, the video doesn't even fill up the screen...

It also goes black for awhile in the middle, but the gist of it is there.

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Yeah, but that's because that's a filler space -- we're still shooting scenes to "fill in" those gaps. And at its current state, the video still has a LOT of them.

But I can honestly say its my favorite work I've done yet, if for nothing else than I can safely homage Evil Dead II and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

[brawndolicious]

digital has a better look in my opinion.  if you use film for it's problems I usually just think that could be from the director being shitty.  how good it looks or how easy/cheap it is to use doesn't matter because you're talking about fucking PINATAS.

[Scurvy Stan]

Doesn't matter what you shoot a movie on if it's ass.

[FlameOfCallandor]

In terms of narrative Cinema Film isnt going anywhere for the next 15 years.

The kind of colors I wanted for my movie would have been impossible to do with digital. If I wanted to have shot it HD it would have cost even more for me and not looked as good.

[Ecrofirt]

In terms of narrative Cinema Film isnt going anywhere for the next 15 years.

The kind of colors I wanted for my movie would have been impossible to do with digital. If I wanted to have shot it HD it would have cost even more for me and not looked as good.

Didn't you lose a lot of color by oversaturating the shit out of it though?

[FlameOfCallandor]

What?

[Ecrofirt]

In your pinata movie, wouldn't you have had a wider color range if everything wasn't so saturated? I've been toying around with saturation, and it makes it look like the subtleties of color in the pictures I've been toying with get lost in the brightness of oversaturation.

[FlameOfCallandor]

I dont know. It doesnt look like I lost any color at all.

[Stocky]

MY BRAIN HURTS

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Its risky to play with image saturation/desaturation unless you're purposely going for a certain look and tone, removed from what we recognize as "lifelike". When something is too saturated--like, say, OUaTiM--it makes the work as a whole look too distanced from what we identify as "real".

[FlameOfCallandor]

Anyway, back on the topic of my new camera. Anyone want to help me write a short horror film? It should be less than 6 minutes and have no dialogue.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Its risky to play with image saturation/desaturation unless you're purposely going for a certain look and tone, removed from what we recognize as "lifelike". When something is too saturated--like, say, OUaTiM--it makes the work as a whole look too distanced from what we identify as "real".

This is true. I felt that doing this in my movie was a good thing since the reality of the movie was far removed. The premise of the movie was a talking pinata.

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Its risky to play with image saturation/desaturation unless you're purposely going for a certain look and tone, removed from what we recognize as "lifelike". When something is too saturated--like, say, OUaTiM--it makes the work as a whole look too distanced from what we identify as "real".

This is true. I felt that doing this in my movie was a good thing since the reality of the movie was far removed. The premise of the movie was a talking pinata.

I also oversaturated the picture in that snippet I posted above, but you can hardly see it what with how shitty quality it is.  :'(