Has anyone tried to do this trick with super 8?

[jukkasil]

I just found one wmv-clip I did one year ago, I shot it with mini-dv, but now, I got the idea, that I'd try it also with super 8.

http://www.sorb-i-tol.com/videostakuva.wmv

Tip. just download this file first to your harddrive and then play it with your viewer.

Don't care about picture quality (white balance isn't in balance in that goat clip).

So, How I did this?

Well, at the first I shot this my family clip. Then I printed the last frame with my HP color printer. Then I shot closeup of that picture before goat start to eating it!

We discussed about this effect much during last Summer in our http://www.digivideo.org site, some tried same trick using bluescreen, but personally I have to say that this oldfashioned style (I did) is more for my taste.

Of course you can do the same with super 8 (and other film format), perhaps it will look much better than my mini-dv test.

[Mattan]

jukkasil, your videos are getting better from time to time!
this one is great, i thought of doing somthing alike once, but the preformance is great,
i guess you can also do it with super8 but you need a dark room, and a bit knowlage

Mattan.

[jukkasil]

"i guess you can also do it with super8 but you need a dark room, and a bit knowlage"

Well using same method I did with that mini-dv clip, it would be very easy.

Just shoot the first part (whatever you want). Then transfer it to DV and select the last frame and save it to the tiff-file.

Then print it with your color printer. Use then this printed paper as the first frame of your second part shooting closeup of it at the first and then zoom out to the full scene (whatever it is). After you have also transfered that second one to dv, then cut them together using your videoeditorsoftware.

[supa_ate_sixteen]

It looks good. I especially like yor timelaps clip of the floating clock, pretty cool. The cut however is a little jerky and would opt for a quick 15 frame dissolve to better make the transition from the video footage to the still frame, maybe longer. Keep the films a comin'.

[jukkasil]

Yes, agree you supe_ate_sixteen, I did it year ago using one hour of my time to complete it, when we were discussing (at http://www.digivideo.org) about possibilities to do this kind of trick.

So, that test was totally raw one, but I found this old wmv-file from my pc at my office (I had forgot the whole test) and it made me think, that with super 8 (or 16 mm) it would look 100 times better.

I just have some unexposed film left in one of my K40 roll, so I'll do that second test soon.