31Super 8 home movie
grainy, warm 4:3 home-movie film with light leaks
Early 1920s film is the flickering, scratched black-and-white look of silent movies.
30Live-action footage, real people, natural skin and textures, as silent-era film from the 1920s: black-and-white, heavy grain, flicker and fine scratches, slightly sped-up hand-cranked motion, soft vignetting and gentle contrast. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a girl of about ten with short dark hair in a pale smock dress waters potted tomato plants with a small tin watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and water splashes onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: it stays flickering, scratched 1920s black-and-white film with hand-cranked motion, one continuous take.
Live-action footage, real people, natural skin and textures, as silent-era film from the 1920s: black-and-white, heavy grain, flicker and fine scratches, slightly sped-up hand-cranked motion, soft vignetting and gentle contrast.
Dress the cast for the period. The pale smock dress keeps the girl from looking like a modern child under an old filter.
31grainy, warm 4:3 home-movie film with light leaks
32soft, noisy standard-definition home video
33unstaged, breathing handheld in natural light