Sunday, November 2, 2008

Broken Capillary Laser

aparatus, vol 11. Super 8

After a month of inactivity blogger (in this case it has agreed the low production of posts with low segregation of phenylethylamine and other endorphins several) back with a new post of aparatus.

This time time to talk about cinema, pa "something we study. But I'm a novice cinephile incompetent, I will not dare to make any criticism, even on issues divagaré cinematic language that could even save my credibility. I'm dedicating myself to expose something that, in essence, I had to like it.

Why is analog. Why is retro (60's-80's). Why it has to do with the visual.

I speak, of course, the Super 8, its cameras, films , their projectors and everything that entails. Who would have thought that the videos you videaba with my parents and friends when I was a kid I would be passionate about 10 years later? Why them, the generation of 50 and 60, had the opportunity to record in that format when I was in its highest peak and we, Generation Y, we kill to find a place where film reveal?



For the uninitiated, the Super 8 format is a movie. It is not magnetic like the VHS video and obviously has nothing to do with digital miniDV. is film. And that means ample spectrum of color, grain, saturation, and many other things that make me sleep with a smile (examples at end of article).

The Super 8 was launched as an improvement in a familiar format, 8 mm, used in home movies during the 60 (remember that in professional film and / or commercial records usually in 35 mm, and alternative films in 16 mm). That changed dramatically when, at age 70, many artists, filmmakers and fans and other alternative sectors intensively funky began using the Super 8 because of its low cost. Today

get something more expensive to get a camera through ebay, and it is difficult to find places to reveal the film. In addition, it now only makes moves, without sound and you have to go edit the footage to digital and then use Final Cut or similar. However, many of us are still fascinated. Both would spend our savings on some old movie camera rolling and we would launch our own short film our own film in Super 8. Examples

footage here

And for those interested, more information here and here

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