Howard Faxon
A long time ago I made some small gauge films. It all started with a class at the San Francisco Art Institute called “Fine Art Filmmaking”. I had a few 8 mm and Super 8 cameras, a splicer, an editor, and a Dual 8 projector. The films were hand held down and dirty little films not necessarily telling a story. It was about movement, the rhythm of the splices, focus was kind of optional even, etc … Well, you get the idea.
I decided to make some digital films and everything is different. This one is in HD, everything is so clean and slick. I don’t miss the expense of developing and getting work prints among the other limitations but I actually have started experimenting with lower resolution black and white to try to simulate that same feel. Anyway, here’s a little film of bees on my apple tree that I made. If you have 2 minutes you might enjoy it. I slowed it down a bit because the bees are so frenetic and I made audio choices that I hope work in an interesting way.
I have hundreds of macro pictures of bees and about 5% of them are really presentable. I volunteer on anti-GMO and anti-Monsanto/Syngenta/DuPont/Bayer campaigns and started trying to document pollinators for that purpose. Hope you enjoyed the bees.
I will be posting more films as I have a bunch in the works and will be filming some events at the Summer of Love celebrations over the summer. Cheers everyone. And help save our pollinators!
Thanks. In the middle the audio is just slow motion like the clips. It seemed to work so I left it and added audio in the beginning and for the end. Cheers.
Loved it especially the sounds of “tweettt tweettt”
Thanks. In the middle the audio is just slow motion like the clips. It seemed to work so I left it and added audio in the beginning and for the end. Cheers.
Such a wonderful post!
Thanks so much Gina. My photos didn’t show up in it and I’m not sure why but one of them shows as the cover. I’ll have to repost some bee macros – a few of them are pretty cool.
beautiful
bueno en castellano para que practiques ,muy bonito y interesante
buenas tardes
Gracias. Creo que lo viste antes en cosae tal vez. Mi primera película sobre Vimeo. En este momento todas esas flores se han convertido en manzanas. Jajaja. Buena noches
si repetimos mucho ya que lo tenemos hecho
necesitas venir a bilbao a practicar el idioma y a disfrutar jeje
Soy mejor entendiendo lo que oigo que hablando o escribiendo. Donde viví durante muchos años en San Francisco, mucha gente hablaba español. Es uno de esos lugares que deben ser visitados. He querido ver ese museo desde que fue construido.
Welcome Howard ?
Thanks so much Kathy! I don’t know why the pictures I submitted with this post didn’t appear. Oh well, I’ll post them later. Cheers.
Thank you Pamela
Lovely
Wonderful
Thank you Kathy.
Howard – you peeping tom, you! Lol… You did great!
A fascinating piece, with wonderful close-ups!! 🙂
Thanks very much. Getting those was not entirely easy. And they are at half speed. Full speed was a bit much – like don’t blink or you’ll miss it.
Thank you. I was trying to edit a bunch of really short little clips. Cheers 🙂
Beautiful creatures! I think you did a great job with the film. And thank you for working to preserve our pollinators. So important to our survival on this planet!
Thanks. At least some awareness is growing.
Well hello there little bee 🙂
(and I don’t mean You, Howard 😀 )
Thanks. The frame that shows from the middle of the video is my favorite part. Just lucky I guess.
Beautiful job Howard.
Thanks Carol. It wasn’t too easy to film them. They never stay in one place too long. The film is in slow motion. It’s weird that the pictures I added just disappeared but oh well. One of them is the cover photo.