Many many years ago when I was in my early teens I borrowed my dad's Super 8 film camera and I started making my own little movies. I made story boards, I edited my films by cutting and gluing film strips in my darkened bedroom, I added music and sound from recordings and counted seconds in order to match it up with my moving images and I arranged movie afternoons with my friends and family.
Somewhere between one movie and the other my interest moved towards still images and theSuper 8 cam was forgotten; collecting dust somewhere, until it was probably sold in a yard-sale or even thrown away....I believe, at least, as I haven't seen it for 20+ years.
What I didn't forget was the feeling, the colors and the rawness of the Super 8 film quality and a few weeks ago I decided to play around with moving images yet again, while shooting a fashion story in the park, with the goal of attempting to reproduce the Super 8 feel with a simple Flip cam that I borrowed from Kim.
The idea came to me while Kim was preparing the girls hair and makeup: Plastic wrap!!!
You use it sometimes on still cameras to get that aged photograph effect so why shouldn't it work on a film camera??
I simply put some plastic wrap in front of the lens of this tiny little Flip cam and started filming in between the still shots and this is the result. I am quite happy with it, for being a first attempt, and now I can't wait to play some more!!!
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