the rain taken has a break for a while. it has been a bleak, water clogged everywhere day. listening to jessica andrews as i write this n it's beginning to grow on me... uploading my pic's to yahoo. no bloody wonder digital is pushing off film to the sidelines, with such ease of use..... n just no botheration of development cost. been clicking off to glory my phone camera n uploading them, never in a million yrs would i do that with a film camera!!! but the megapixel is wwwayyyyy below giving any decent pics. it just about reproduces an image, JUST!
but i guess these pics are ok. at least i have pics to upload around my blog!
no matter by how many leaps n bounds digital technology is advancing, but the look of film- that's entirely something else!! the first time i shot 16mm for our project film and it was screened... GOD O' MIGHTY WOW!!!! the image!! so bloody 'can it be this beautiful!!' wonder what would happen when our diploma in 35mm film is screened!!! i'll go crazy and do gymnastics on the floor! on the other hand... to be realistics i would probably end up working a lot in the digital medium, so am looking up digital cameras. probably be able to affors an hdv camcoder and i'm beggining to like the JVC HDV camcoder. worked a little with the sony hdv a couple of months back and the images are really startling for a camera this size! a good cameraman can do wonders with this medium! anyway, like they say, it's always the person n never the machine
on the other hand...
been thinking about my field trip all morning and i've decided to head back to my village. it was nearly the andaman islands or nagaland but i guess i should get to know my people better first! n anyway, the inst. isn't paying us much for the field trip. plus being back home i can get hold of my camcoder; maybe i'll end up making a documentary that way.
it would be interesting studying my own people. i think we pple from the northeast are fast losing our history in the absence of written scripts.. we neet to record and catalog our culture n traditions, n we need to do it fast! time is outpacing us n we'r losing bits of history by the day!
coming back.... i've decided to do a field study of one of our traditional dance. i have only a month of break n even less of official time, wonderin whether i can make any substancial study......but i guess it'll be a start. there's hasn't been much study done on our people and i shouldn't just be sitting around like i've done so much in the past. why is it that we look back and most of the time end up saying 'if only........'