Bolex Shoot The Cooliest Experience

For the Bolex shoot I worked with Zoe, Andrew, and Chris.  After scouting some locations before the allotted time on Saturday we decided to shoot at the Village Clubhouse pool, specifically interacting with the surface of the pool waters.  We used multiple elements to bring our concept together:  Zoe swimming, a sheet being pulled, flowers floating, and stationary framing.  I enjoyed the process we went through creatively, the problem solving we achieved to attain the final product.  For example, we spent multiple ghost takes practicing pulling the blanket out of frame, Zoe swimming in the water from frame left to frame right, flowers floating, and Zoe swimming back into frame from the right to leave it from the top.  This had evolved from our original idea to use a play of shadows on the surface of the water rather than the blanket.  The play of shadows, we discovered, were too small in the frame of the Bolex when shot with everything else we needed so we scrapped that idea.  I enjoyed the shoot itself, and using a Bolex film camera - with its added risk of having an unintentioned product - brings a certain excitement to seeing the finished film that using digital does not.  It was good as well to process the film for ourselves again, the second time ever for myself.