Journal 2 - Week of Jan 29

This is the second week of class and today's film I found I related more with them than last weeks films. These were more recent films than last week and the technology was better. The best film for me to watch was "Variations" done by filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky. I related a lot to this film because I took the class film 116 last semester and I did a film that was much like this one. We had to record unique visions out in the field and mine was out together like his. This made me feel much better about myself and the path I am taking. Here are some examples of the clips I did: project 2 and project 3. These are silent clips that I recorded in Lake Park for that class. One section I liked from this film was the visually beauty from the beginning shot of sparkling water. I also liked how he shot images that reflected off glass because it makes you look at a lot more than just glass. I feel I can compare with my shot in project 2 where I recorded a reflecting puddle. This film intrigued me the most out of all of them.

The other film that got my attention was the short films by Tomonari Nishikaka. "Market Street" and "Clear Blue Day" were two films that captured visuall perfection. I don't know yet how he did Market Street, but the patterns of squares and circles with the images were crazy to look at. I find it crazy in Clear Blue Day when he uses light to capture images. People actually look like images of light. I think the professor was saying that he tooks the lens off the camera to distort the image with light. I would like to find out how to do that so I could use it toward my work in the future. Overall this weeks films have opened my eyes to a new kind of filming that could be use to others to make unique.