814 & Nizo, two iconic super8 cameras!

It took me a couple of looks to get into "super8-mode", it's so rare to see, which is a huge pity.

In my opinion (notice that I don't do IMHO, nothing about me is humble) super8 looks magical when projected, yet loses that special something when transfered to video. I could imagine that your two films would be captivating when projected onto a screen and I don't think this comes across on the postage-stamp size of youtube. It's hard to say anything about the quality because I'm not sure if the loss of highlight detail in Avebury is due to overexposure (reversal film is very unforgiving), the cine-transfer, or the you-tube compression.

I found Ridgeway more impressive somehow, although the images were technically much "softer" than Avebury. I think it's a real pity that I only saw the films on youtube, not in a projection theatre. There's a lot of work and effort gone into these films and it shows. The aesthetic of S8 can take a bit of getting used to and is very much a personal taste, a bit like Marmite, you either love it or hate it, I love it.

I really liked the way you used the characteristics of film, like the white noise of the television and the acceptance of grain in some shots. There's a mind-set about working with film which is lost when originating on video. Knowing that you've got three minutes of material and it's costing you thirty quid a roll tends to make you approach shots differently. There's also more of a feeling of "exposing" film when you can actually feel the camera whirring.
Last weekend I met up with a friend who's been working on a super8 film for yonks. She's scanning in the film herself, on a frame by frame basis and putting it together in FCP... you don't get that sort of dedication nowadays... I moan if I have to digitise footage in real time!

The music was a bit Frippatronics for my liking but it fitted the images superbly.

Edit: Let us know if you ever intend to project the films!