This week with Super 8 Brothers: What’s that in the fridge?

April 21, 2010 at 9:36 AM | by Super 8 Brothers

Greg walks into Chris’ house

Greg: Hey dude, can you grab me a beer?

Chris: Sure thing. After all that shooting, you deserve the champagne of… ACK! Holy cow, I haven’t cleaned out my fridge in a while.

Greg: What’s going on in there?

Chris: Uh, nothing, just some nasty leftovers. This cabbage smells alcoholic. Is HP sauce usually blue?

Greg: Hey, what’s that box back there?

Chris: Oh, snap! That’s Kodachrome. Where did that come from? This box of film expired in 1988. You can’t even buy Kodachrome anymore. I’ll just throw this in the garbage can…

Greg: WHOA! Don’t even think of throwing that away. I want to shoot with that.

Chris: Are you kidding? This stuff is over twenty years old.

Greg: EXACTLY.

[More after the jump.]

Chris: HUH?

Greg: Expired film has a lot of great qualities. Most of all, it fulfills my dream of living it up like Burt Reynolds in the 70s, while using all of the “high-tech” equipment from that era. Second, it’s CHEAP. Third, expired film has some great, unintended qualities: oversaturated color, graininess. You never know what’s going to happen with it.

Chris: You mean, it’ll make trees purple and Barney green? Have you actually worked with this stuff before?

Greg: Yes, I have. In fact, I just shot some footage recently in Victoria, BC. Each roll was five bucks each, instead of twelve, and the results were great! Check it out: