Super-8 on Youtube
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:32 pm
OK guys and galls, if you've got 6 minutes and a cup of coffee, you can have a get-fit session just by sitting back and watching tom frolicking weightless in the water.
This little film was shot in 1983 so I was 24 years younger, had a lot more hair but as I remember it not a lot more fitness. Technically it was shot on a little waterproof Super-8 Eumig Nautica cine camera and I added all the sounds later on pretty crude equipment - no computers back then. I've letterboxed it to bring it up to date.
It was shot over many lunchtimes in Volvo's indoor and crystal-clear watered swimming pool, the pool attendant helping me with poolside shots. I was often the only person in the pool, as you'll see. Opening shot is actually one evening (Canon 1014E), and titles are cardboard cutouts spinning on cotton threads. Five pictures in a frame are done by rewinding the film in the Super-8 cartridge and refilming a small projected image.
I just wanted to show how good it feels to be weightless.
And how poor it looks when compressed for Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KYbojfwaEI
tom.
This little film was shot in 1983 so I was 24 years younger, had a lot more hair but as I remember it not a lot more fitness. Technically it was shot on a little waterproof Super-8 Eumig Nautica cine camera and I added all the sounds later on pretty crude equipment - no computers back then. I've letterboxed it to bring it up to date.
It was shot over many lunchtimes in Volvo's indoor and crystal-clear watered swimming pool, the pool attendant helping me with poolside shots. I was often the only person in the pool, as you'll see. Opening shot is actually one evening (Canon 1014E), and titles are cardboard cutouts spinning on cotton threads. Five pictures in a frame are done by rewinding the film in the Super-8 cartridge and refilming a small projected image.
I just wanted to show how good it feels to be weightless.
And how poor it looks when compressed for Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KYbojfwaEI
tom.