now 70mm due to internal consistency

Got a freelance job on saturday filming a wedding. woohoo. paid too, which was nice.
however it totally destroyed my sabbath and left me utterly exhausted most of yesterday.

However, more one-off work was what I was praying for, and its trickling in. I have another job with ******** in a few weeks time, another wedding, but less work from the sounds of things, just assisting.

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Also i offered to help Micah out with his project for Tropfest next year.
which is more of me fulfilling someone elses vision, which i recall from a lecture by Ps Phil as being more important to doing your own thing.

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Married Couple script is on back burner now as I concentrate on a trilogy which began with 'the way'. I hatched an idea for a second short, and now am leaning towards making three separate films and then joing them together with another sequence floating around my head.

Second chapter is called 'the truth' i know some people are laughing. good for them.

Sadly its going to be possibly even simpler than 'the way', although i'm yet to finish scripting it, and its going to be my project for over the christmas holidays.

the key thing is to get it all finished before Hamish leaves, as I really need to keep using the same guy.

...thus spake...

i wrote two new scenes whilst travelling to and from a smallish easterly island.
one at the dinner table, and one at a wedding reception.

even now I am not convinced of the wedding scene.
I think it adds a great deal to character development, but i fear it could be costly.

perhaps a vision of filming what i can afford is too small.

still have to find out how much I can borrow the ENG with beatcam for.
could be nice to shell out and get a better picture.
the pd-150 felt very cold and clinical - and i fear the z1-p with be similar.

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meanwhile I filmed my TVC on friday, it was of course due last monday., but these things do happen, I am editing it all together tomorrow in a rush, then I start on the News story.

the news story is to be a small expose on detrimental effects of television.

by small, we will be interviewing a man and his wife/girlfriend. she's gonna be a kinda psychopath, and he will be the eternal pacifist secure in simply lying and absorbing the junk.

fortunately bronny got us all to planning it on thursday night...so i already feel like its in a much better place than my TVC.

also i hope to get at least one proper actor for this piece.
'the way' had a proper actor, but it wasn't a class project.

sigh oh nara

how things are...

above is working title for next short film.

It is getting pushed back, mostly cause this term is flying by and I still haven't organised a cast/crew thankyou shindig for 'the way'.

Also the cast I wanted is busy during at least half of the term2/3 break so possibly best to push it back to at least the term3/4 break.

also re-thinking it, whether to stick with the one idea, or to cry and create something bigger. should sit and brain storm it at some stage.

Post-whisper...

Last saturday around 6am, Hamish & i arrived at church and started setting up gear.

at around 9.30am we packed up and fled to a hot chocolatte cafe in manly.

So we finished the shoot half an hour early which was fantastic.

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I shot the whole thing with the light temperature set on inside/fluro lights.
Which tainted everything blue, exactly what I was wanting. fantastic.

We only ended up using lights for some of the latter scenes to really light up Hamish's face to make it stand out.

We had a freak occurence of sun, which almost fit in perfectly.

Also huge thanks to Anna who kept notes comparing what shots I had listed with what I actually filmed.

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around 12.30 i think we arrived back at church and began post-production.
at 5pm I had a first cut. and stopped to do sound.

at 7pm I rang michelle and told her that I was finishing up and bringing it over for the dvd.

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So basically 13 hours between start of shoot and edit

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tesh shoot #1

Got to church at 6.10am ish

too light.

however, I think i will run with it and just shoot from 6-9am or so.
We'll start by shooting the 'deviation' segment, cos i'd prefer that to be darker.

And i think i might change the look/feel in post. cos its gonna be quite hard to do it on location, although I will still get lighting for our actor.

reminder, have to chat with actor and do a rehearsal.

to do a lighting test next wednesday, or not to do a lighting test next wednesday, that is the question.

also remind anna to get red thing for path.

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also i have to work on smooth hand held dolly shots, i have no dolly. I have no crane. I just have big dreams (sic)
and no budget.

"I have no bird, I have no bush. God has taken my bird and my bush" - Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty)

frustrated

last night I watched 'Hero'
I had seen half of it, the first half.

nice twist ending.

Right near the end, the scene where the two lovers die.
Theres a bit of dialogue where 'Snow'? says 'why didn't you block me?' to 'Broken Sword'
They had an arguement, then a fight, finally BS dropped his sword allowing Snow to kill him.
I don't think she had ever intended to kill him.

I had a revelation about how sometimes in a relationship, during arguements, harsh words can be expressed by one party that can leave the other wounded deeply. Sometimes this wound causes the victim to separate from the other in the relationship, whilst the person who said the stupid word is left asking 'why didn't you just ignore what i said' 'why didn't you just look the other way, realise I was making a fool out of myself, and ignore what I had said' 'why did you have to take that particular thing to heart'... of course by this time it is often far too late.

When Snow joined her lover in death, i cried. It was quite emotional for me, and i'm not sure yet why that is...


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I have two film projects in process, both short form.
One is about a journey, the other about two people relating to each other.

in the words of Federico Fellini, every film i make is autobiographical & every film i make is non-autobiographical.
or at least he said it in more eloquent words than I.... probably in italian too...

I think both are gonna be silent films.

I have picked actors who i would like for the second film, but the first is likely to be done first, and yet I have no one to play the role.

perhaps Andrew. I will ask him tonight.

...interview...

im in the middle of 'editing' a class project.

We had to film an interview...

however... it was not enough, so i tapped out a script... a small story of love, of spite, of pain...
3 years after the release of her best-selling book '6 Steps To Dating', Dr. Zoe Precious has found her time in the spotlight fading, those ideals that she once thought fool-proof have started to crumble around her. In order to help her refocus her life and goals she has flown to Sydney for a holiday. An old friend hears of her trip and contacts her in order to set up an interview for his Television program. However the interview turns out to be a lot more than she expected.

sounds cheesy, maybe.

For class we did the initial interview with 'Dr Zoe' just after he book was released. For Zoe's interview she filmed someone who had taken on the principles and succeeded in the dating realm. For my interview, we examine a darker edge of her book, does she really believe what she has written about.

Ultimately I want the 'old friend' to get nasty and spiteful, and then at the end after 'Dr Zoe' is in a pool of her own tears, does the 'friend' reveal his true feelings.

I don't know if this interview will succeed, looking through the footage, I can see bits that could have been done better.
we had shot the footage once, but the sound turned out dreadful, so we reshot, but were under time pressure in the second shoot, so i wonder if I didn't gloss over some issues in order to save time.
If the interview works I will be most impressed, if it does not, hopefully I will have learned alot for next time, and still get a good grade.