Success

Today I have spent the day with the Media Tutor, Jamie, who has been helping me to come up with ways of recreating the effect of a magic lantern projection using film.
I made this short film in order to play around with the equipment and get used to using it all.

To do this film I printed each line of the poem onto seperate pieces of acetate and one by one I used a projector to project the text onto a white wall. As I projected each line onto the wall I filmed each one for about 7 seconds and then paused it before swapping the piece of acetate for the one with the next line on. Once I had filmed all of the lines in the poem Jamie helped me to put what I had filmed onto imovie where I made each clip the same length and edited the film to make each clip push the previous clip of the screan. I then added the noise of an old fashioned projected to the backgroud to create the illusion that the clips were being moved along in the same way the old projectors did rather than a film.
I feel that this film was really successful and although it is only a test, I am very happy with it and I am going to keep this method of presenting the poem in mind for my final piece.