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In article <mano-3005951900010001@mano.dialup.access.net>, mano@panix.com (Manoel A. Felciano) writes:
> What's the scoop with Super-8? I thought the picture wasn't that great.
> How bad is it? Is it like home movies from the sixties? What are people
> using it for? Is it hard to edit? Thinking of getting into it as a cheap
> newbie way to get into film. Am getting a Lenny Lipton book on the advice
> of many.
> 
> Thanks to anyone who could share some experiences.

myself and two mates recently finished making our first film. we were totally
self-funded and so super8 was ideal. i suppose we could have shot on
video, but as many people here will appreciate, you don't get the same "look"
and since we were shooting in b&w the texture is superb on the super8
but would have been shit on video.

the whole experience was great: write your own script, work out your own
effects, find the locations yourself, appear in it, film it, get the
lighting right, do the editing....just do everything. we hadn't made a film
before, and knew next to nothing about it. what better way is there 
than by hands on?

james

the "wireless" web page (my film):
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jrt1003/wireless.html