The 16mm film manipulation was an experience. We spent along time on all the various forms of film stock manipulation and the hours of work only resulted in about a minutes worth of footage. The task makes one appreciate not only artists who specialized in short films involving film manipulation but any sort of film where each frame needs to be created or tweaked to make a finished film. Films like the early disney animation movies and films that use stop motion, where each frame needs to be created one by one become even more impressive when you realize just how much hard work goes into creating these types of films.
For my partner and I's film we used everything from scratching already developed film stock, painting on clear film stock, printing onto film stock, and more. Aesthetically the final minute long finished film looked cool and trippy. However, a story or theme is essentially non existent! Since this class is about experimental film production I believe that an abstract short film with no real story or theme is ok. It was certainly interesting to learn the process of manipulating and developing film stock.
