Home Movie

Post by **soundboy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:07 am

Here we go my first upload.
This is a film I put together of my children between 2003 and 2004.
It was shot on super 8mm K40 and some 20 + year old tri-x and plus x 16mm.
The Film is cut to Baby I've got you on my mind by Aussie band Powderfinger

Camera's used were a Minolta 84XL, a shitty old Chinon 805s and a K-3 for the 16mm

Most of the Transfer was a DIY job with some of the 16mm having a Pro Transfer at Digital Pictures in Melbourne.

It was also my first ever edit in Adobe Premier Pro.

The file is in Divx Format with layer 3 16bit 48k Audio

ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video ... emovie.avi

File size is 25mb

Post by **MovieStuff** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:42 am

Hah! What fun. That looks great. I love 8mm home movies. The experience has a very soothing effect on me. I dunno. Guess I'm an old softy. Good job.

Roger

Post by **soundboy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:46 am

MovieStuff wrote:Hah! What fun. That looks great. I love 8mm home movies. The experience has a very soothing effect on me. I dunno. Guess I'm an old softy. Good job.

Roger

Thanks Roger

Post by **Actor** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:58 am

Kids make wonderful subjects for home movies. They move. The grandparents just stand there.

Post by **super8man** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:53 am

Love the heavy guitar and the transitions you used early on (they looked like tape splice images). Great stuff of the kids. I think my fave was the sliding down the bar towards the camera to come into focus. Very nice.

OK, I have to say it, I saw a hair in the transfer at the 2.57 second mark...Hey, I liked it all the same.

I liked your 4image rotation...I will have to figure that out in vegas...

Thank you for sharing!

Cheers,
Michael

Post by **STREDGE** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:07 am

Thats cute! Much more exciting to have than crappy old videotapes. Memories are much better memories on film.
ps. when I was watching the film I particularly liked the B+W stuff, good contrast and very stable and hadnt read your post yet and was prepared to ask how you did that but then I saw it was 16.
Good Job
andy

Post by **thebrowniecameraguy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:23 am

Fabulous!

I like Kodachrome in the evening and some shots were just that, it looked to me anyway. Your kids in the pool, with what looked like the sun infront of camera setting, right?

Anyway, I love the color saturation that the Kodachrome stock itself has had (including K40, K25, KII daylight, indoor and orginal Kodachrome asa 10 and 15). I like the home movies we have of over 50+ years, its all color Kodachrome. Which, I am a bit surprised that the only black and white are rolls I shot of Plus X. I guess it was easier to get color processed, I wonder if Kodak even processed their own B&W stocks in regular 8mm.

Anyway, great home movies. That term has always implied "FILM" to me, not video.

I like hearing people say, "I am filming you, dont do anything stupid". That drives me insane, esp. in my own family.

Cheers,
Jordan

Post by **soundboy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:49 am

super8man wrote:Love the heavy guitar and the transitions you used early on (they looked like tape splice images). Great stuff of the kids. I think my fave was the sliding down the bar towards the camera to come into focus. Very nice.

OK, I have to say it, I saw a hair in the transfer at the 2.57 second mark...Hey, I liked it all the same.

I liked your 4image rotation...I will have to figure that out in vegas...

Thank you for sharing!

Cheers,
Michael

Thanks Super8man

Browsing your website a few years ago got me hooked on Super 8mm and film in general.

Post by **sunrise** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:25 am

Very enjoyable. Especially the B/W. It had something extra. Made me want to shoot more B/W.

michael

Post by **mattias** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:34 am

yeah, i also want to shoot more b&w now. good work. it bothered me that all the color shots were soft or even out of focus though. really hard to watch without sitting and waiting for it to pop, which it doesn't.

/matt

Post by **soundboy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:49 am

mattias wrote:yeah, i alway want to shoot more b&w now. good work. it bothered me that all the color shots were soft or even out of focus though. really hard to watch without sitting and waiting for it to pop, which it doesn't.

/matt

The colours were made soft when converting from mpeg 2 to divx 5.1

using Auto GK.
It also made the b+W not as sharp

I don't have an avi to Divx software.

Yes there is some very soft focus shots... I was running out footage for the clip.

Post by **mattias** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:56 am

well, it's not that the colors are soft, it's that the focus is soft. i guess you didn't focus quite dead on in the diy transfer...

/matt

Post by **soundboy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:59 am

mattias wrote:well, it's not that the colors are soft, it's that the focus is soft. i guess you didn't focus quite dead on in the diy transfer...

/matt

Yup that was the problem.. something to work on next time.... or find someone with a work printer.

Post by **mathis** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:31 pm

I liked it!
And I agree, the 16mm Plus-X is *really* nice.

Post by **studiocarter** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:13 pm

Fantastic editing and use of old home movie archive material. Great job.

Some titles and credits on the film would help us viewing it in later months and years to know where it came from and who did it

Close up shots long ago were difficult without focusing lenses or without close up lenses. Just a little more distance on some of those shots would have sharpened them right up. You can feel it almost happening.

Michael Carter