I our second to last project or really third is the film processing of 16mm film. Our animation stuff is taking longer than expected to return. We still have to digitize and add sound to our 8mm stop motion exercise. But now we have learned how to set up and expose 16mm film and then process it. We made the class room a dark room and brought in different objects and laid them on the film in the dark and flashed the strip with our cell phones. The result was really cool, though mine was a little under exposed. But I learned a lot and know to hold on a little longer with the light. But all of these are experimental, so you have to play around until you get the skill. I was thinking you could create your own animation this way too. Not just experimental like the scratching and painting and the way we did it, but planed ahead of time and laid out. I am thinking of creating or even scratching on separate film the frames I want or draw on table and lay film on and then expose. The idea is to create an actual film but by self exposing and processing in one setting. We can call it the quickest film ever "shot" even though you have a lot of prep work. What is so great is I now know how and can and plan to do this or some variation after a well thought out plan and experimenting. See you on the dark side, peace.