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Topic: How many of you have ever made your own digest?
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 15, 2018 06:16 PM
Thanks Doug to get involved. And I am really sorry to disturb your dinner time. I knew it is morning time here in the Pacific when everything is still fresh....
Just to make it clearer, "boring parts" is only one reason from many. However cut an F/L can be based on different reasons, such as:
- To fit with the reel size - due to bad prints condition on several part - buying odd prints and ended up cannot be able to complete - etc, etc
What ever is the reason, it will end up an F/L becomes a digest/mini feature. So share your stories. Some here have come with great stories.
BTW, who ever hadn't known, a long time ago, we have made a challenge to create our own digest from an F/L supposed "Cars" was going to be released. This is another game for fun
cheers,
-------------------- Winbert
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 15, 2018 06:26 PM
In my home country, super 8mm is just like treasures. We cannot get print as easy as people in the Europe or the US.
So I once had the Persuaders (episode: The Chain of Event, 3 x 400') that only have 2 reels. When I got the complete version, I was thinking to sell this 2 x 400'.
Many Indonesian collectors would just be happy to buy this 2 x 400', although the story surely did not flow well, just for the sake they have something to play in the projector. But I was not felling good to sell something like that, so I did edit this 2 x 400' to make the story has more sense and sold it...
I forgot which parts were in my hand at that time, but it did happen...
I knew this is not an F/L but still in the range of the post.
cheers,
-------------------- Winbert
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 16, 2018 11:39 AM
Mike, loved ou're post and such work to get the "perfect" Ben Hur for you.
Some people might be shocked but I almost did a digest of the full Derann scope Ben Hur.
The reason?
It's too bloody long for us to sit thru comfortably.
I didn't end up "downsizing" the full feature into a digest, and glad that I didn't, but boy, I was REALLY tempted!
My solution was to say, "To heck with the feature, we'll just watch the reels with the naval battle and of course, the chariot race", (which, except for the very end getting crowned with the wreath, is all there on one reel!).
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Dave Cross
Junior
Posts: 6
From: Hampstead, MD, USA
Registered: Apr 2018
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posted May 02, 2018 02:49 AM
I haven't done any with film but I do digital digests all the time, sort of like with the Cars challenge a few years back. My son is 5 and loves the Avengers and superheroes in general but doesn't have the patience to sit through something like, say, Captain America The Winter Soldier. So I trim the Marvel movies down to 50-60 minutes for him and remove any objectionable language and overt violence. It's great fun and sort of a game for myself to see if I can jettison a lot but still make it coherent and enjoyable.
I edit some for myself also so I can watch certain films I love even if I don't have the time. The ones I do are usually pristine widescreen versions but, if I'm feeling adventurous, I'll edit some down to 30-35 minutes, add film fade and make them flat like this one here - Iron Man Super 8 Digest Intro. I generally try to avoid faded Super 8 prints like the plague but it's kind of neat to watch one you've done yourself to give the illusion of an old print. And if I get tired of it, I just remove the fade and watch it normally.
Making them flat takes more time because of having to reframe but the look of Super 8 was so ingrained in my childhood, I just sometimes love watching movies this way and it's kind of interesting and fun to watch digests that were never released (as far as I know). Plus, I think a movie like Phantasm or Night of The Living Dead really benefits from having an old look to it instead of the clean remastered versions so widely available.
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