Scratch film

Learning about how people used to achieve moving image was interesting. There was no camera and no play/pause button just film and a projector. We had 5 seconds each to create something with. 25 frames made 1 second. It felt tedious repeating frames and drawing in such a tiny space however the outcome was great. As a group our work collaborated together to make series of imagery. There are lots of colours and although there isn't a story it is still interesting to see what people have done. The soundtrack is original audio sound from the 1960's which gives the film a some narrative.

scratch film from Lily Mullan on Vimeo.
My part is from 2:32 to 2:38
It is linking back to the thoughts I've been having about society. The invention of moving image was first created to document life at the time. The 'Everyone does nothing' text I had in the film expresses the fact that, today, everyone simply does nothing. Things like calling up about wages that haven't cleared properly or my phone contract that I was promised I would get a 10% discount on. All of which results in us going round and round in circles, each person passing me onto someone else because everyone does nothing. There are too many people in society today to account for therefore we are simply just numbers. Nothing is personal or one-to-one anymore, people don't have the time. There is too much to do and not enough time to just stop and think about how we got to where we are now. At first there was one person and the population on the film accumulates to show the problem we are facing today.