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Alright, we’re keeping up on the film-a-week. This one is called “colourhunter.” It’s the first roll of expired Kodak colour film that I’ve shot and hand-processed. I just wandered around yesterday with a macro-lens taped onto my camera, collecting colours. After all the warnings I received about processing colour film, I didn’t really expect to get any images by the end of it.
Now I know why everyone I talked to about hand-processing colour filmed winced before saying “good luck.”

It didn’t go so well, the colours are all over the place…it looks “interesting,” I guess…too put it nicely…It’s an experiment…at least some pictures showed up…but the funny part about the experiment is that, after being told that colour processing is ultra temperature sensitive, the best results I had were after I stopped checking the temperature…
Because of the orange film base, I had to do the inversion and a little colour correction in Final Cut.
The music was made by Rozalind MacPhail, and was her first experiment with bansuri, recorded live at Cafe Nostalgica in Ottawa.

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 Colourhunter, an experiment by Scott Amos, with music by Rozalind MacPhail [2:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I got a new Bolex this week, and this is the first thing I’ve shot on it, a test in the backyard. It works. Good to know. I inspected the camera before I bought it, and it seemed alright, but you never know until you’ve run a roll of film through it.
This was shot on Kodak 7265 16mm colour negative film, but I developed it with black and white chemistry. It turns out that the film is tinted orange…interesting…I was playing around with a close-up lens taped to the end of a 70’s video-camera lens.

I’m still trying to hunt down colour processing chemistry in town, it’s more difficult to find than I expected, but I’m sure I’ll run into something.

The music is courtesy of Mike Wolske.

 

 Backyard, an experimental film by Scott Amos [1:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A short film made for the 2008 “My Victoria” competition at the Victoria Film Festival that screened earlier this week. I’m tossing into my film-of-the-week collection, because it was, in fact, made within a week (2 days actually, in December.) I was just too busy this week doing a vlog for the festival, and I had to wait until the contest was over before before I could post it.
Participants were asked to create a 1 minute video about what living in the Capital means to them, how it affects or influences their lives, or what they feel is unique to living here.

The film stars Darryl Tamney, Ishe Barrett and John Davis. The Music is by Rozalind MacPhail, from her album “Edgework.” It was Shot on a Bolex and hand-processed.
Unfortunately, “Waiting” didn’t win anything. But another film I did for the contest, called “Victim of an Evil Seductress” won the “Capital History Award.” Once the dust settles I’ll probably post that too.

And CineVic, our local Film Co-op gave me a couple rolls of old expired colour 16mm film, that I’m going to learn how to hand-process. So the weekly excercises will get a little more colourful. Woohoo!

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 Waiting, A short film by Scott Amos with music by Rozalind MacPhail [1:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My film-a-week fell by the wayside this week, as the Victoria Film Festival is in full swing…but I have still been making films this week, they’re just different than what I’m used to doing.
It’s a Vlog that I’ve been doing for the Festival, just wandering around and getting into trouble. It’s been a great excuse to meet people and take part in the Island’s largest film festival.

You can find it here: http://vifvfest.blogspot.com

On another note, both Grass and Sometimes are playing at a couple more festivals. Grass was accepted to the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmaker’s $100 film Fest in March, and Both Grass and Sometimes were accepted to the Dawson City International Short Film Festival in March. I’m hoping to do some travelling…looks like I’ll need to hunt down some winter clothes….