Super 8 film in a day

I found this project a very interesting and fun way to use film. Using the super 8 meant that the whole group had to think differently to when filming digitally as it had to be shot in chronological order, and made sure everything was perfect when actually shot as we wouldn’t be able to edit the footage.

Originally, I was put into a different group to the group I ended up in so I wasn’t a part of the original thought process, but I had a part in the story board making, working out the times, filming and developing the film.

We decided to make a horror film, where a girl went into the woods with a Ouija board and awakened a spirit.  This spirt has a presence throughout the film even before the girl appears in the film.

Equipment for shoot:

·      Super8 camera

·      16mm film

·      Nikon D90 (DSLR camera for back up)

·      Ouija board

·      Spirt costume

·       makeup/face paint (for the spirt)

the day of the filming started out really well we made a decision of which woods we should film in, walked there and started talking about the compositions and where we would all stand and start. When the camera needed to be filming and when it would cut out, put the costumes together and did a run through with the D90 to prefect what we were doing and each person knowing where they needed to be we did this about three times.

Sadly, when it came to filming with the super 8 we were a little rushed as there was a local primary school teacher told us she was going to be teaching where we were, luckily we had enough time to film and apart from the fact it was rushed it went smoothly.

Another thing that didn’t turn out the way we wanted was when we were developing the film wasn’t rolled out completely and we lost some of the film as was stuck together and didn’t develop. With this the bits we did have looked good.

our final outcome has footage from both the super 8 camera and DSLR camera.