Month: September 2023

Take Care Tar Creek Revisited

These are some freeze frame from my recently processed and digitized Super 8 film; Take Care, Tar Creek (Revisited).

Shooting at 18 frames-per-second we can sometimes miss the individual frames.

And sometimes the frames in-between the “main content” and just as interesting.

I am still editing the final cut of this short form documentary – so still remains to be seen what the end result will be.

The first version was an in-camera version of the film produced specifically for a film festival called Straight 8 Film Festival in London.

This revised (revisited) version allows me the latitude to edit the pictures, the music, the narrative…everything. So quite a bit different than the original. I hope this will allow for a more comprehensive approach that will produce a more meaningful story and impact.

Looking through the camera lens, it was a good day of filming. But it’s always hard to know exactly what you captured, whether it was in focus, if the light metering was correct, if the camera movement was too much, if there was some other crazy unknown issue with the film cartridge inside the camera, until you get it processed and see the actual pictures.

I took roughly 6840 photographs; thats’s two rolls of Super 8 film running at 18 frames per second (fps) for three minutes and ten seconds (3:10) each.

This footage will be layered into the original version of the film I created a year ago for the Straight 8 Film Festival in London, England. Unlike that project, this time I get to use all the magical tools of editing available to me. And I intend to do so.

I have some ideas about hand-drawn titles and illustrations that I’m going to play around with. If it works out, I hope to build on the original with more footage and broader story-telling strokes that will better express what Tar Creek has to say.