Lisa and Aaron at the Cherokee Welcome Center in Vinita, OK after a day of filming in the Tar Creek region.
Photo by Rebecca Jim
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.
