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Okay, today we are filming a video
that I thought we would never film again,
and that is related to shooting film.
We have a new toy.
I got me this camera for Christmas.
It's a Canon Super 8, and it's automatic,
and I've never used it before.
So we're gonna get some film, run around New York City,
make a little video, and hopefully what I shoot turns out,
and it actually works.
So, let's get started.
(Lively music)
So much, a lovely day.
(Lively music)
♪ In this dynamite castle ♪
♪ You will never be alone ♪
♪ Indigo sunset ♪
- I don't know what I should get for my first shot.
So I think all you do to shoot is you press this button,
and then there is a zoom which is pretty effective.
And you have to keep this stuff in focus.
But it is automatic other than that.
Like you don't have to choose the F stop.
It has a light mirror inside,
and so I'm just trying to keep it in a certain window.
But I don't really know exactly what I'm doing,
so we'll see if it works.
And that.
The guy slowed down so much
so I had to hold the button too long.
Okay, let's cross.
♪ What do I believe ♪
♪ What makes me feeling to write you this song ♪
I think I got a better shot.
I just think I need to take more time to like set them up,
and get the movement in the right place.
So, let's head down to the high line
and see what we can do there.
♪ Two hours a day ♪
♪ Five months in a year ♪
♪ Oh, I loved you too long ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ You keep blowing me out ♪
♪ I keep holding you in ♪
(upbeat music)
I hope that worked.
I can't tell if it's in focus or not.
I guess we'll find out later.
The birds are hard they keep moving.
- [David] Get it?
- I think so.
I'm gonna press the button.
Three,
two,
one.
♪ Hey ♪
Got it.
Are you already filming? - Yeah.
- Oh gosh.
I feel like the thing here that's really surprising
is that the zoom on this is fantastic.
Like you can get so much closer than I would have imagined.
Like we are so far from those guys,
and then you just zoom, and you're like right
in the middle of their conversation.
Which is pretty hilarious and also very nice
because you don't have to like get in people's face,
but you can still get the shot.
♪ For the ocean ♪
♪ I would be long gone by now ♪
♪ It's some kind of devotion ♪
♪ Brings me down ♪
Detail shot.
(upbeat music)
♪ Oh ♪
(record scratching)
I feel like I've done too much of the highline.
We should go somewhere else.
♪ I set out on a road ♪
♪ That I pince with my own two hands ♪
♪ I'm that friends on the week ♪
♪ People chosen to make the stand ♪
- Got it.
I feel like I'm having a hard time figuring out
like how long I should hold each of the clips.
I think I'm getting nervous.
I think they're going too short or too long.
But I guess we'll just have to see.
Oh this is kind of nice.
(mellow music)
♪ So casually keep driving me to coffee ♪
- Ready?
♪ So bittersweet ♪
♪ Keep lose my sleep while driving in the backseat ♪
♪ What's left of me ♪
- Hi.
(laughs loudly)
♪ Driving oh, this feels just like an ocean ♪
♪ Negativity is getting closer ♪
- [David] It's a good shot?
- Yeah I like this one.
♪ Sometimes everything just gets hard ♪
♪ Sometimes everything just gets harder ♪
♪ Feel like I'm missing some parts ♪
♪ They just keep on getting much darker ♪
- Couldn't get it (mumbles) too bad.
It's so weird, it's like when my eye goes close to it
I can't see anything.
I don't know if my eyelashes are compressing
and I can't see.
Ah!
Let's go back this way.
♪ I got nothing more to lose ♪
♪ But cover your eyes this ones for you ♪
♪ They say you have to live to learn ♪
♪ And maybe that's why I question burn ♪
♪ I got news for you ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I'm jumping off Kilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Listen to my drummers out back ♪
- Ah!
♪ I'm not gonna be silent in this Vera Wang ♪
♪ Oh you know I'm not that kind of girl ♪
♪ I'm much better off in the underworld ♪
♪ I got news for you and things I wanna pursue ♪
- [David] Got it?
- Yeah but there's rain drops on the lens.
Let's go to the park.
(relaxing upbeat music).
Got it.
I feel like my next shot
should be a closeup of the pigeon.
- [David] Yes.
- You know?
Little transition.
♪ Rivers run dry dust spreads in the air ♪
- I got it!
The zoom is so good.
♪ Two dark days do you have a tear to spare ♪
♪ Make a promise ♪
- Wait, stop. - What?
♪ the world away ♪
- [David] Look at your film.
Oh, (beep) on my god.
Okay David just pointed out that this is almost done
because I wasn't paying attention,
I was just shooting this willy nilly
because I forgot that it's really expensive film.
So hopefully I got good shots of the pigeons
and those dogs.
And if not I just wasted a bunch,
but we're almost done so I guess I need to think about
what do I want my final shots on the roll to be.
I don't know.
I feel like the Washington Square Park Arch is pretty legit.
Maybe do you want to get a portrait of me?
- [David] Yeah.
- We didn't get any of those.
Okay let's do that.
Whether it has film in it or not,
you can press the record button and get that awesome sound.
And I think you're supposed to remember
to check the film gauge and I didn't do that,
so here's a bunch of clips of us running around the city
continuing to film because I had no idea
that the roll was done.
(upbeat polka music)
Yeah I think it's done.
- Yeah? - Toast.
- [David] Toast?
- It's done.
So the next step is we gotta take the film out
and then put it in an envelope with our papers,
and send it off so that it can get developed.
And then hopefully we'll have the film back
in maybe four days I think it was.
So I hope it worked!
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(upbeat music)