Cinematography with Super 8 Workshop

Overview

Much to the despair of many filmmakers in New Zealand, for the past few years it has seemed that film is a dying format here in New Zealand, with the cost of shooting on film becoming prohibitively expensive with all of our film processing labs shutting down.

However having recently set up Reversal Cine (which processes both black and white and colour super 8, 8mm, super 16 and 16mm film stock and provides a film to digital transfer service) over the next two weeks Ian Powell is bringing an opportunity for 20 film enthusiasts to learn the art of shooting on Super 8 film.

Ian Powell has international cinematography credits including working as Director of Photography on Santiago Sierra's Destroyed Word (2012) William Pope L's The Long White Cloud (2013) Sam Hamilton's Apple Pie (2014). Two of the films that he shot on 16mm film also have been played at the New Zealand International Film Festival: This Fine Island in 2012 (shot on 16mm colour negative) and The Master in 2011 (shot on super 16 black and white film). The man is clearly an enthusiast.

Students on this course will shoot and direct a short film on Super 8, and even have the chance to see their final finished creation projected. The course fee includes one Cartridge of Super 8 Black and White film and processing to a digital file.