I have decided to put my doubts to one side for now. Sometimes an idea can take a long time to cook – I need to be patient and carry on with the work I had planned. If I down tools, I won’t be able to think. Making is good for thinking.
I have begun harvesting the lost frames that link scenes of the cinefilms. They are difficult to capture from a dvd. Mine plays in Quicktime – and I just can’t work out how to play it slow so I can easily find the frames I want. I have a nasty feeling this is a feature that only comes with an expensive upgrade.
Anyway, I have begun. I’m hoping I can make a ‘lost film’ from all these fragments. Some are really interesting images, but it is almost impossible to isolate more than one workable frame. I’m laboriously scooting forwards and backwards, then taking a screenshot of each one. Annoyingly the Quicktime toolbar keeps popping back and appears in several of my screenshots. This is a very slow process!
I unearthed the iMovie programme buried in the unused applications on my macbook, and start playing. I have EVERYTHING to learn… but I can get several images to roll like one film. I’ve tried to load it here, but for some reason it will not work. So here’s a screen shot:
