This is the first teaser from the 16mm footage we took during the trip. This is probably my favorite shot out of all four reels… the speed and feel to it is very beautiful. 

All the 16 was shot with the intention of acting as a “memory” for Larry. I just wish I had more than the 15 minutes I have - it intercuts very powerfully next to the HD footage. 

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Scenes reflect what has not yet happened, scenes anticipate what has already happened. Scenes that have not yet happened, have. “Continuity” is one of the myths of film; in film, time is round, like a reel.
Steve Erickson, Zeroville (via loopermovie)

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That’s me on the far left, looking slightly away from the camera - the first time I opened this photo I didn’t see myself, or maybe I just didn’t recognize myself. Lyon, a friend from the road I’ve mentioned a few times [here] on FToM, emailed this and three other 35mm photos a few months ago and they’ve been anxiously waiting in my dropbox/photos to be shared. This was so long ago - not in terms of just years - but it feels like another life, or someone else’s life. I miss the road. 
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That’s me on the far left, looking slightly away from the camera - the first time I opened this photo I didn’t see myself, or maybe I just didn’t recognize myself. Lyon, a friend from the road I’ve mentioned a few times [here] on FToM, emailed this and three other 35mm photos a few months ago and they’ve been anxiously waiting in my dropbox/photos to be shared. This was so long ago - not in terms of just years - but it feels like another life, or someone else’s life. I miss the road. 

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using HTML5 to build film credits

Getting some really great comments and feedback from this post about film credits and HTML5, wanted to share the post here since it’s where the idea stemmed from. 

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This is not a how-to post, but it is an idea that I hope someone else with the know-how runs with.

I posted a question on the FToM production blog the other day that was a question on the relevance of credits after a film, a conversation first started by Kelly Sutton, I think what I personally want to see most is not a doing away all-together with post-roll credits, but making them something useful. 

When I’m curious about an actor or actresses name, or the cinematographer of a film, I never dig out the DVD, or more accurately these days - because I don’t watch many DVDs - I never dig up the film on Netflix streaming and skip through to the credits, I use Google, or IMDb. 

Why? Well, not only do the credits after a film tell me a name and only a name - but the internet makes it easy to see other people’s work, photographs, film excerpts, biographies, etc. I can dig into a person’s involvement with a film as deep or as quickly as I feel like. And that is what I want to see happen with the credits after a film. 

Again, I am not saying that I know how to do this, but as I understand HTML5, I do believe it is more than capable of being the searchable / interactive / linkable / sharable / expandable tool that feels missing from a film.

With HTML5, an entire film can be placed anywhere with a simple < video > tag, but what if the video itself had no credits at all contained in it? So that after the < video > ended, a scrolling credits built entirely with HTML5 began? If the transition between < video > and HTML5 credits was seamless, the person watching would never really know the split had taken place, but they would be able to search through for a name, a song, a crew position, etc.

Any ideas? How could we make this happen?

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