6x1 Top 6

I find it hard to rate my projects in 6x1. The entire experience was great and I don’t usually like to pick favorites. However I will attempt to list them for least favorite to most.

6. Media Fast

This is would what I would say was my least favorite of the projects.  I had fun doing all of the projects in the class but this one felt the most like work. I had a hard time completing the media fast itself and the resulting long take didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped.  I feel like products of the other projects were a lot more interesting than this one take.

5. Crowd Sourcing Frames

While I had a lot of fun at the frame factory marathon where I had a chance to better get to know my classmates as we went insane from drawing on frame after frame hours on end, I would rate it as my second least favorite.  It gets this rating, not because it wasn’t a cool project but because I had a much better time doing the other ones.  I think maybe I was overwhelmed by the number of frames so I have a handful of frames that I feel are truly quality leaving the rest as a kind of filler. As someone with the drawing ability of a 3^rd grader I was definitely disappointed with a lot of my frames. However, I do enjoy the concept of crowdsourcing so maybe I could look into participating in crowd sourcing films using a different format.

4. 3D Anaglyph

I want to give this one a higher rating. I had a lot of fun with this one. I had fun shooting it and I had a lot of fun turning the footage into a full 3D image. In fact, learning how to make a 3D anaglyph in After Effects was probably one my favorite thing I learned while taking 6 x1.  However, this became the shortest of the projects because of some story limitations and an attempt to keep continuity within the editing. I also found it awkward because I felt like the final product could have been better if we didn’t feel the need to water the footage down in order to fit  logically with everyone’s sound design criteria.

3.  Direct Film Manipulation

I really liked this project. It ranks at number three because one and two just eek it out being better. Direct film manipulation is one of my favorite types of experimental film and I definitely enjoyed going through the process. I was a bit disappointed that not all of my techniques shined through though. I am still unable to locate where I did my magazine transfer and I realize that it probably didn’t work out and most likely blocked out my attempt at animation as well.  However, the entire project in general ended up looking good.

2.  Multi-Plane Animation

Boy did I have a lot of fun doing this one. I really like the look of multi-plane animation in general and I really like how ours turned out. It could have been better if we had had longer to shoot them and maybe had less technical difficulties but this can hardly have been avoided. I’m considering getting panes of glass so I can do this on my own time.

1.  Bolex One-Take

I don’t have much to say about his project other than I enjoyed every second of it and I absolutely loved the final product. If I could afford it I would totally by myself a Bolex and make short films with it. I love the look and feel that the image has when projected on screen.