my arms hurt

oh boy do my arms hurt. ok so, today was another filmie day. Went to class at 9am, that finished at 11am, then that's when the fun kicked it. I printed off every script in my upcoming web series, The Cat Kids, and stapled them all together so I could read it all on one giant page and really focus of the overall plot.

 I wanted to fix up stuff and make another draft of them. It totally worked. I was able to concentrate on the story as a whole, which will really help when this is being watched by the audience and hopefully I get some laughs from little kiddens and adults alike. There's some really great one liners of which I've shoved in there. Oh, they're so dry, I freaking love it. SO I did that until like 2:30 then me and the Vman waddled on down with some film gear to the entrance to sit arcade, we set up, James Wilkinson walks past and says hi to us, and Ash B comes up and says hi, and Patrick walks past and judges us and continues of his way. Gabster turned up and I got some footage of her playing the guitar and singing a song, then that was done, and we wandered on back to the maclab and I offloaded footage and audio and did some more script work. then it was like 4:30 and I was hungry so I got some noodle canteen and I only ate the chicken bits out of number 17 because that's how I roll. If you want noodles, help yourself, it's in the fridge. ok so then it was tjugo past fem and I very carefully put the bee emm see in a backpack with a lens (not attached, nuuu) because I didn't want to carry that stupid heavy case you normally carry it in. I attached the bag to my back then the sound kit to my other arm and the tripod to another arm, then I was off, look out invercargill I'm a one womaned film maker person carrying all my gear like helloo I am a cat I demand you give me cat treats. said zylya. I filmed GabGab at Suzie Q's doing her thang. There was not much space and I was crammed in a corner and I don't think the manager liked me very much. Man I gave her enough warning that I was going to be there. Like. Two days notice. I don't know. All I did was stay out of the way and be not distracting. Gabbi is a pretty awesome muso, you should listen to her stuff. ok so I got about half an hour of that because I didn't want to leave. But I did and I waddled on back with all that gear to the maclab and offloaded da footage and it's like 42gb man. My everything hurts and I'm really tired so I'm just going to take a moment and listen to some nice, peaceful, trance music.

Peace out, home skillet biscuits.

Today

Today has been rather eventful. I went to GEN200 in the morning, and learnt about questionnaires. I then hung out with an SIT cat. Mreow.

The next few hours involved waiting around in Downtown campus lounge, reading a book and eating a pizza and chatting to various people and having Bone Cultist outfits from Bones of Essimer shoved on me.

hi

Anyway. At about 2:40pm Me and V headed on down to set up for my documentary. I decided to use the Raw Gallery as I could utilize the sun coming in from the windows and wouldn't have to have so many lights. My subject turned up about at about 10 past three, and I set her up with a lapel. I put one on myself too, of which I was all excited to because I felt real fancy like a tv reporter or something.

wee look at me I'm so pro

We ran through the interview a few times, and I believe I got a decent amount of footage to use from the Black Magic camera. I love that thing man. If SIT ever wants to just randomly get rid of it for free, I'll have it. We wrapped the shoot and I headed up to the MacLab to offload footage and audio. 

While that was doing that, I went and watched Lana shooting her interview, mostly because I wanted to hear what Lenon had to say, hehe. It was very interesting and the set up looked very nice compared to my bean bags, prolight, window, lapels and BMC, haha

I ended up sticking around until the end. We put stuff away and then I wandered on back again to the MacLab. I chucked my footage into Da Vinci Resolve because I wanted to see if I could remember what Ash M taught us about colour correcting and grading. I sort of did. I fiddled around with the light and the colour anyway just as a test and I think it looks pretty awesome. I see what people mean of the colours coming out of the flat image of the BMC. Such incredible very wow.

Virat's doco shoot

Yesterday afternoon we shot Virat's interview. It didn't take long, barely an hour. He has someone from the Tourism amd Hotel Managment course. Quite an interesting fellow. Me and V fiddled around with the lighting setup and framing of the subject for a few minutes, then it was on to the interview. I asked him a few questions, to which he happily answered. Cut. Reframe. Redo. This happened a few times, in order to get a variety of different angles. When Vdawg was happy with what he had, we went up to the secret computer lab, and V shot the subject as if he were giving a presentation to a class. I pretended to be a student, so did some random that was already in the room, and Dan. I printed off some talent release forms which everybody signed, then that was it. Pretty chill. I learned how to work a lapel mic.