Frampton's Formula - Natural Features

Natural Features blew me away. I am working on my first animation film and can definitely appreciate the work that goes into an animation. One 100ft roll of film takes me about 8 hours to finish, that 100ft is only approx. 3 minutes long. So a lot of hard work and patience is involved. It reminded me of something that even a modern day serial killer/ thriller/ horror movie would present. It almost told a story about the faces that were melting and burning, like it was about the murders of the people in the photographs.

But opposing what I think the film is about is Frampton's Formula, the quantitative evaluation of what was shown in class, which suggest that what the film is about is what is seen most in the film, in which case I'd have to say it was about the color black. In a way it really is about black, not necessarily the color but all in all it is a dark movie , dark meaning threatening-like, evil-like, disturbing images, etc. And the color black, which is the subject in the quantitative sense, is very closely related to what I thought the subject was of my own definition. Dark meanings, a sense of evil, a sense of murder.

I would like to explore this more and see if the quantitative "Frampton's Formula" held true more often than not in other films. I can't say it would work for the other movie we'd watched in class, "Love's Refrain". If I were to be asked what it was "about" in my own sense of what I think films are "about", I would probably say nothing. I don't think it is "about" anything at all. To me it feels like a montage of beautiful shots, not everything has to be about something, sometimes things just -are- without -being-.