Best way to watch a film....

[hoarp001]

My vote is with the good old chuck it in the bath and start at one end, slowly working along until your eyes bleed....

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v653/127/96/506442569/n506442569_1330422_8348.jpg

Im about 100ft into it, and so far the woman was int he feild and the man walked up to her, they had a convosation and now we have jumpcut to a conservatory, and they are talking again, with flashbacks to weird austrian type dancing.

Gripping.



(by the way i found this film and about 1000 empty 35mm cans piled up outside one of the chemical yards that supply my company with raw chemicals. Turns out they supply to major UK film labs and they end up with all the rubish :huh:

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[Zak Forsman]

what the hell are you doing? :)

[hoarp001]

Watching the film.... frame by frame. And im doing the voices myself.

[Zak Forsman]

lol. wish i was there to document this.

[ryan brown]

How much would you charge to come to my place, sit in the bath and watch a movie frame by frame, and then narrate it to me? It's always been a dream of mine... a wet one.:kiss::kiss:

[Jockomo]

This sounds like a the start of a great movie.... I think this is the part where you get abducted by the bad guys. Turns out that's now all those guys supply....

[MattinSTL]

Honestly it is a good start to a film...

Guy has some old footage... glances at it and notices a single frame that looks like a convincing murder... he can't get any equipment to actually play the film... so he starts viewing it manually (as you describe)... trying his best to figure out the story behind the film... this establishes a story where we jump from stuttered frames (as you're looking at them) which slowly morph into fluid action... where the real story of the film is revealed... and contrasted with your actual life... where you're using this old reel as an escape... but over the second act the two start to mesh... the line between the story in the film and your own life... in learning the contents of the reel... start to blur... it seems that you've seen something that you shouldn't have... and you studied the reel so well that you uncovered a lost murder case... and now the people in the film are older... but seeking to quiet you... eventually the story unfolds that they come to kill you in the exact way as the murder in the reel!... just as you're getting snuffed... the freeze frame of this is the exact frame that we opened on... and we push in to see that it's YOU that were in the frame which revealed the murder all along.


Hmm... right off the top of my head... write it and shoot it for loss fest. Need any more ideas?

[Nathyn]

He looking at what seems to be an old Sci-Fi film, until he recognizes his mom on the film and their old house and something that looks like someone in a mask but it's not a mask. WTF! He continues to watch. The person is gone, like they floated off into the air but it's too real to be special effects. Then suddenly his mom is gone too. He starts watching other reels until he realizes he's watching the alien abduction and return of his mom, who was pregnant with him at the time. Did I mention he had slight psycho-kenetic powers?

-Nate

[hoofandmouf]

35mm film and its processing > environmental concerns

fa sho.

[Lumiere]

ahahahah :)

[hoarp001]

I think the sub plot has been introduced now....

[pmark23]

Are you sitting in the bath while you're doing this? **shudder**

[hoarp001]

no, i just pull it off the roll and hold it up to the light. its much easier since the sun came up.

[Postmaster]

Hmm... right off the top of my head... write it and shoot it for loss fest. Need any more ideas?

Now that´s a pretty cool idea Mattin.
For the next fest, I think I´m asking you for a screenplay. :)

Frank

[hoarp001]

Oi, im the one who found all this film and started this thing off, i get a credit on your film if you make it.

If you want this roll as a prop then let me know, its getting boring...

[Postmaster]

Do you want me to credit you as "Film-Finder" or "Thing Starter" ?

I have a roll of Jurasic Park here - I thingk that would do the job.

Thanks.