woooooo the last week of semester!! Tuesday

Today is Tuesday, but not for much longer. It's 10:45pm, and the campus closes at 11pm, let's see if I can cover all of my topics before I get kicked out.

Today I filmed my film. One of my actors did a no show, which is really annoying, because now, some shots are going to have a middle aged man playing jack, and the rest of them are a young woman playing jack. Bothersome. We got all my film shot though which is great. Had an issue with the Zoom sound recorder running out of juice on the second to last shot so that is also bothersome. wrapped at about 3:30 and headed to SIT. Offloaded everything and started editing. Just finished syncing up my audio and video now. I do not know how I'm getting home.

I set up the Black Magic at some point to do a timelapse, something that I've been wanting to do ever since SIT got the camera, and have been eagerly awaiting the day that I could have it out under my name. Here is the video. I like how you can see the clock whizzing around, haha. It was really yellow because I forgot to colour balance to the room, so I did a colour correct on it. All good.

I must leave SIT now, it is getting close to 11pm. Mr Onions just walked to steps into the class and then walked back out. I'm the only one left here. Yay for me.

I HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO OH MY GOD

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I'll write another blog with funnies from my shoot and a more detailed experience later

Ice Cream with Jack

This morning was my designated morning for shooting. I'll be straight up, things didn't work out, and I'm disappointed about that. I'm very tired right now just fyi, so meow and stuff. Hey Patrick. Whaddup g? Chur. You missed out on cake today, it was very nice cake. Just ask my classmates. Perhaps I shall bring some more in for our last class of the semester. 

I woke up at 6:30 am to finish off making an ice cream cart for my film. It was really only tying a piece of board I had painted last night on it. I loaded it up with ice cream containers and everything else you would think would come with ice cream carts and was happy with it. Seeing as this is simply a cinematography exercise, I'm not really spending a great deal trying to find props that are realistic. I couldn't find anybody to help transport the gear from my house to shoot location so I pretty much just piled everything onto the dolly and wheeled the blimmin thing there.

Good thing I live only a few minutes walk away from where I was shooting.

After a few times where the ice cream cart literally tipped over, I finally got to set. We found that park workers were cutting down trees right next to where I wanted to film (the duck pond at queens park), so we decided to move. We ended up by the band rotunda. We started setting up gear, then realised that half the sound kit was missing, I am not used to using the Zaxcom so I thought that what I got from Gearman was all I needed. (shuddup. My brain wasn't working properly when I went to get my gear, ok). Soundie went and got the soundkit he had out from his house. In the meantime I blocked through and rehearsed with the actors. After about 40 minutes Soundie comes back, and continues setting up for his job. Only to realise "Oh shit! I've left the handle at home!" So off he goes again, to get the handle... It's really getting behind schedule at this point and I'm starting to worry a little, as the weather looks like it might start raining. We decide to shoot anyway, by just holding the microphone, while we wait for the handle. We get one shot done, which is a dolly shot, and I think it looks absolutely brilliant. Soundie comes back only to say he can't find the handle, which is a real pain in the butt. We get another dolly shot, a really tricky one this time. I want a dolly zoom, in one scene a character really turns angry, and I reckon that having the effect that dolly zooms give can really help play along with the emotion change. It wasn't working out too well, the actor was a bit uncomfortable having the camera as close to him as it was (it was the only lens that had a zoom function), and it was starting to rain, and we had like 4 people crowded around the camera and the dolly, Brogan's like right there pulling focus, I'm like right here zooming in and out, Cody's right there holding his jacket over the camera. I could SMELL them. Cody smells like a sheep. Brogan smells like a girl. Dan's like right over there pulling the dolly, and Sean's like right over there pushing the dolly, and I don't know where Arjun was. I couldn't smell them anyway. 

It's really miserable and intense and really starting to rain so after discussing with 1st AD we decide to wrap early. In the end I got two shots done, and I've barely filmed anything. Here's hoping for next Tuesday, that I can get more footage done.

I must acknowledge Brogan on her being a 1st AD. She did a brilliant job at it, and I would gladly have her as 1st AD on my film shoots.

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After taking some props home to my house, I got back to SIT around lunch time, and went to my screenwriting class with Duncan Sarkies. I learn so much from him. We continued on with our stuff for "Jimmie Jasper goes to Gore". We're writing episodes, and the story is really funny and great. The first years did a great job creating the characters. After my class, I uploaded my footage and audio, then wandered on home, watched the last episode of Game of Thrones season 4 (AHHHHHHH). I ate sizzlers for tea, then went with my beloved best friend ever to the best supermarket ever. We took a ridiculously long time choosing ice cream, of which as soon as we left the supermarket's doors, we ripped open our tubs and licked it all the way back to where we live. om nom nomnomnllmlmolmhahomlh. Hahaha. I had ice cream all over my face. I love being a Kimberley. I took some photos of some cats and a dog and then decided to do some homework. I finished my story thing for screenwriting class, and then started writing up this blogpost.

meow

My brain hurts.

Hooooooookay. So. Shiz is getting pretty intense around here. I am going to be SO BUSY over the next two weeks.

I have to:

*pre-plan a short film
*shoot said short film
*edit said short film
*be a crew member on other peoples short films
*write 5 episodes of a web series
*redub ADR, Foley, and sound effects for a scene from another film
*create music for said another film
*design character roughs for a comic
*put together a showreel
*attempt to maintain this blog
*write an essay
*go to class
*sleep
*eat
*and every single day I have to travel an hour just to get to SIT and back to where I sleep

Should be FUN.

Noooooooo it won't be. Such stress very not happy Kimberley.

Okay so today, I went to my Audio class. I did not do audio classwork. I forgot my headphones, and my flatmate best friend ever wouldn't do me a solid and go grab them for me. She was at the pub with her classmates. Dan turned up at lunchtime, apparently. Not surprised. I went to buy spray paint at lunchtime. Anyway. I planned props and actors during my morning session of audio class instead of actually doing audio. In that class I have to redub The Matrix and it's really fun using Protools. I wasn't doing that. I was freaking out. I think I have all my actors sorted now though. A fun sounding fellow that Lana knows and because everybody I ask cannot act when I'm shooting, a fellow filmie (THAT IS NOT MY CLASSMATE, PATRICK) said he would act the other character. In the afternoon we had Duncan Sarkies teaching us about structuring, I found that extremely helpful and plan to apply that to my web series scripts WHENEVER I FIND TIME TO WRITE THEM GEEZ. Then he left and we had our audio class again of which I did not do any classwork even though I REALLY HAVE TO I MEAN IT'S DUE ON THE 21ST. I worked on my short film. Then I waddled home because my stomach was in knots and sulked on my bed a bit before saying hi to all the animals and people who live in my house. Why does Chevy hate me? Is it because I took her out of her cage and shoved her in a cats face one day? Weird bird... I ate tea and watched a bit of Game of Thrones (which was the most epic episode ever, phwahhh, Jon Snow, heeeehhh), watched about 5 minutes of The Hungover Games that my house was watching, then went over my script and finalized the shots types and storyboards. I may or may not have been a bit too mean talking back to one of my favouritest teachers ever that I had at secondary school. I said my head hurts. He told me to get over it. I told him to get over the hill with a million steps by durie hill tower. Hahaha he's really fat. Why can't my tutor be like mr davis. mr davis is cool. my tutor is just weird. remember when I took a picture of mr davis and he told me to delete it? I told him I deleted it but I did not. hahahaha he calls me a rockstar and thinks I'm the next peter jackson. PFFFFT like hell I am. And well here I am now putting something on this blog at 11:46pm so I don't fail this blog assignment. I don't want to fail ANYTHING i will literally do something extremely drastic. I don't even agree with the marks I'm getting, I can't wait until the holidays when I can hug my precious cat and mum and friends. I just need a break. It's only the end of semester 1...

I really hope no classes clash with my elective drawing class next semester. That would be PANTS.