Every filmmaker has the desire and dream to shoot on film. Luckily at the University of East London we were fortunate to be presented this opportunity of shooting on a 16mm print, using the famous Bolex camera.
Now if you have never worked with film before then you are in for a treat, no going back to view what you have shot like we are so lucky to be doing within seconds of a click. You must make sure you get everything right from the start by this I mean your lighting, movement, dialogue, everything! Would I recommend you trying to seek this equipment out? 100% for sure, you are in for a treat.
This video features 3 shorts we shot on a cold Tuesday morning a few weeks ago during out 'Moving Image' class. It was easily one of the best sessions I've had to date. I'm a sucker for anything technical and hands on, which I prefer over the long tiring talking sessions, lets crack on with practical work and learn to use some equipment please. Anyway, back to the shorts, I am featured in the first two with the beard where a character or two are looking for a cigarette (hence the name Cig 16).
I really do hope you enjoy these pieces, for us filmmakers we found it great just being able to use one of these cameras. It isn't something you see every day, one reason is the cost implication, it isn't cheap to process the film and it's also finding the right people who can actually do that - Again UEL do have facilities to process, one of the few who do and surely one of the only universities that have this set up.Think yourself lucky when it comes to shooting on digital, the true test is being able to take those skills and develop yourself on analogue.