Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
I am requesting a Super 8mm film camera, a light meter, and a precision tripod.
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD; Moira Villiard: visual artist, student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, former Children's Theatre employee.
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My goal is to use the working equipment attained through this grant in order to complete my film project as designed. I already have a working HD Video camera, and several functioning analog still cameras, however my Super 8mm Camera is no longer operational, and it is integral to obtain the kind of feeling and shot structure necessary for this kind of inter-media essay film project. The grant will allow me to update my equipment so that I can complete the film in the manner in which I've designed it. I plan to begin initial Super 8mm shooting in May of 2017, traveling to various sites scouted across the state of Minnesota. There will be three months of shooting, including dailies, film processing, and re-shoots as needed. Following this, the Super 8mm film footage will be digitized, uploaded, and archived along with the HD video footage and the analog still photography. From there, I will load everything into Final Cut Pro, organize the various kinds of footage and sound clips, and begin cutting together what will become the final film. I plan about 5 to 6 months for editing everything, from the initial rough cut to the finished cut, and then another several months for post-production to a finished film.
With this grant I was able to purchase new (used) analog filmmaking equipment. Thus far, with the camera I purchased, I've been able to shoot a significant amount of super 8mm film (both black and white and color reversal stock), much of which is currently at Spectra film lab in Los Angeles for processing and digitization. The majority of this footage will be used in conjunction with both digital video and analog still photos that I've also shot in order to complete an upcoming experimental essay film (documentary) about water and ecology called Hygric. I was also able to use the equipment from my grant purchases to shoot some new film footage that will go toward making a music video-film that was commissioned by the musician Haley McCallum (formerly Haley Bonar). The equipment which the grant enabled me to purchase has been exceptionally useful in moving forward with my Hygric project and in concurrently shooting other footage for various new work.
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