posted June 14, 2012 04:00 PM                   

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Fantastic seller - Will buy again from seller
Buyer: Member id lettie
Blue Water, White Death (Super 8mm film, 4 x 400', Color & Sound) VERY RARE!
US $350.00
(Jun-13-12 22:45)

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So here is the story.

I traded some films with our Pat and one of them was "Blue Water White Death" stored in a custom made box. Not too bad, but it was taken from DVD cover make this more look like a DVD, while on the other hand I am so obsessed with Marketing Film box type (the best artwork I ever found until now)



So I bought hard papers, and do as described below.



The first step is to find blue color identical with marketing color. So I scan one of Marketing film original box. I printed it to one side of the paper. The other side is left white blank. Using this color sample, I then re-colored all boxes (MS Paint is enough to handle this job)´

The second step ­is to print the front cover and back cover on two separate papers (which I have measured that will fit to the size of 7' reel).

I made 4 because the film is four reeler.



Third step is to cut the printed paper using a template box (found from the net).

The last step is to join the two papers into one so it become a box with flip on the top.



Look at the picture above. The reason I colored the inside part with blue, making it looks more professional like the original Marketing films box should be.

Now, I have 4 boxes of "Blue Water, White Death"



....but I was still not satisfied enough with it. I remembered Italian style box for multi-reelers film, so I made also like this one.





and here is if you want to see in better resolution for the back cover:



It takes hour of hours of work and significant cost for ink jet printer and color photocopy. But if it comes to satisfaction, it is worth a try!....moreover it was sold for $350! .....hahaa... :-)

Question?.... ;-)

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Winbert

posted June 15, 2012 09:17 AM                   

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a self adhesive foil on the printed paper before cut.

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posted June 15, 2012 10:01 AM                   

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You can use photo paper.

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posted June 16, 2012 03:30 PM                   

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can you please send me the template you used or the URL of where you found it?

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Pat, there are a lot of templates you can find on the net. Just google image for "box template".

However when I applied it to 8mm box, it was not practicable because the template was for a small box that a A4 size paper can take front and back cover on one page.

Since an 8mm box is more than 7 inch wide, an A4 size paper was not enough to cater this, therefore I had to separate them on to 2 different papers.

Therefore the template is modified as follows:



and



There are two broken line on back cover (both bottom left and right), they are cut. The other lines are to be folded.

The area size is +7". "+" or "plus" means you make a bit larger. But the larger box you have the looser reel placed inside. For me, it is better to have a bit tight so reel is not moving inside the box.

The thickness of the box is 0.5", but again you can make it + or - depend on what is the thickness of your reel. However, to be noted that for the back cover, you should make it a bit less than 0.5" because they are going to be glued to the front cover which have 0.5' wide.

Good luck guys!

[ June 18, 2012, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]

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Winbert