"To The Beat" Reflection

Today I sat down in my one and only class of the day, 6-by-1: Variations on the one-minute film. A class I was looking forward to as a fun easy production class that would require little to none mind-crunching studying. This assumption about avoiding mind crunching work was only half right. The first film we watched “To The Beat” by the Scratch Film Junkies was a major mental crunch. At first it was weird and confusing, an uneven collide of a non-repeating randomized music notes, which seem to come from a rag tag street band and an assortment of lights and darks colors. I instantly enjoyed the deep saturation of the colors but its over all effect left me asking “why”, as in why did the film maker make this queer film? Questions like why should we watch this slowly became clear about half way through the film. I got into the bet of the music, its smooth catchy melody. This in turn got me interested in the picture. The almost Mickey mouseing between the different musical interments and it parallel symbolic scratches became intriguing and amusing. Its musical order through chaos of nondescript colors and lines gave me inspiration for my first project assigned in the class. Its one im looking forward to however, I can already tell that the hardest part of this class will be these Blogs, I come to this conclusion by the mere face that they are to be around four hundred words in lengths and I have already said everything I could say about the first film and im only at 270 words. Thinking back to previous film of this nature, I recall watching one called Black Ice. This film played with different saturations of blues and blacks colors giving it a dark dream-like feel, while watching it I felt like I was watching the inner workings of water mix with gravel and other road oils being frozen simultaneously at different stages. It had a chilling effect. This brings me back to “to the beat” film, in some ways the street band jam session mix with images and colors work on a shallow level but if the music wasn’t driving this piece of art then the mind would. With the mind odds are the viewer could find a deeper meaning of the own from the film. Look I reached 400 words, maybe I was wrong about it being the hardest part of this class.