past few weeks

Hello beautiful readers. How are you this afternoon?

I've been particularly busy this past few weeks, and I do apologise, it slipped my mind to blog. So much stuff has happened! Shoots and assignments and what not.

Arjun's shoot is a massive one. It had been scheduled to take up two whole weeks. Me and Jin were asked to be the art department. It's a fun job, and it's great to hear that Arjun was blown away with the set dressing we did. But I must be honest. I do wish that he was a bit more communicative with us. We didn't really get much notice of what he wanted prop wise, and he didn't really say what rooms were being shot and when, which would have been helpful for the day to day shoots, so we could have brought in just what we needed when. We poured over the script and created a list of what we thought the film would have. Perhaps we didn't need to put as much detail as we did into each characters stuff, but hey. Even though it's probably not seen in the film, Cindy has cheap knock off cologne in his bedroom, while Wong's bedroom is filled with video game memorabilia. Being on set was hectic! As we are students, we each have our own individual commitments to keep, and crew and cast were coming and going at all hours. At some point I was the make up artist (I've never put make up on another person in my life) and the light switcher on and offer, bringer herer, stand by iter. Runner. Bedroom tidier. Everything. Hah haaaaaa. The most fun I had was when I was standing in front of a light with a red gel put on it. I was waving a flag back and forth in front of it for a few hours, trying to create a convincing  ambulance light. So whenever you see the particular episode with the ambulance light, that is me doing that. I'm still not sure if he has anymore shoot days actually. I don't really know when shooting was, either.

Brogan's shoot was pretty nice. She's making a music video, I star in it. It's interesting to watch from the other side. Watching them all go about their crew roles while I just sit in front of the camera and look pretty. Which I really hope I do. She has this idea of having a bunch of girls lip syching to a song, with their faces all dolled up, and looking really emotional. The song we were lip syching is by one of the music students, and it's about hurt, lying, all that stuff. I really got into the song actually. It surprised me, I was not expecting myself to be so affected by it. I guess wanting to give a decent performance for the video made me bring out subconscious pains of recent horrible things. I ended up in that middle bit of inbetween not crying, and crying. It's quite trippy really. At one point I was so focused on something I really can't remember (all I can bring up in my brain from that particular bit of the shoot is blank and numb feelings) that I sort of forgot that there were people and a camera around watching me. Or not watching me. I told them to turn around at some point. Unknowingly, I zoned out and went into my shell a little bit. My eyes were open, but the world around me was blank and nothing. The music was loud, but I could barely hear it, and my lips were barely moving in time to the song. I felt like I was just a ball of hurt and pain and grief and loss. I don't know how I was still sitting upright. I couldn't feel my body. I don't know what happened. I don't know if that will ever happen again. I was drawing on things that I had wanted to forget, but can't, and that's the most emotion I've ever expressed when thinking about them, even if it was unwilling. But I guess it was good for me to let it not be so hidden away. I don't know. It was a fun shoot. Afterwards we got our picture taken looking all pretty. When Virat's finished editing it, I'm going to make it my Facebook profile picture. I look pretty. Not that I'm not always pretty. It was just a good photo. But Anna did a great job with my eyes. I like eyeshadow. Best of Luck to Miss Brogan for the edit. I can't wait to see it!!!! :D

Corey's shoot was interesting. He's also making a music video. I'm not sure what the song is about. But the music video is frikken out of it man. Totes hilar. Ahhh, sorry. I meant totally hilarious. I am also starring in that. I dressed up in my onesie and danced. Well. That's what I was meant to be doing. On the day of the shoot I turned up in the lounge with Devil Burger, all ready to chill for a bit and tuck into my lunch. Hey, Corey, hey Mose. What? You want me to play a band member now? As well as a onesie dancer? Ok... When do you want me? NOW?? Ahhh.. Alright. So yes in that instance I scored the role of the guitarist. I didn't actually know I was going to be the guitarist at that time. I was really hoping I could be the bassist. But Elle called dibs. So I chose the guitar. The instruments where made of cardboard, and still wet from when Brogan painted them. But I think it's an awesome idea, and really gives it a certain feel. The afternoon before, I showed Brogan and Corey a music video that really pulls off the cardboard instrument theme. I'd like to think that maybe, just a little, even the teensiest, tinyest, chance that I gave them even a small inkling to run with the cardbaord. Haha. So yes Me, Ella and Bex from BAMA were all rocking out on cardboard guitars, basses, and rubbish bin drums. Was rly fun. Then it was time for the onesies to dance!! There was me, Ella, Cody, random chick number 1, random chick number 2, and random dude who I am certain I should know the name of and am pretty sure he's like a first yr filmie or something idk, all dancing around in our onesies in the bit between the stage and the chairs. I kept jumping into the chair arms. It hurt. It was pretty interesting watching Corey etc run back and forth with the camera on the dolly. We also shot in that carpark behind the main campus. I couldn't find a bathroom and really needed to pee. But whatever. We did some dancing and pointing at Cody and Diana and running around Diana. I chucked two chips and Cody and one at a seagull. It looked like it's going to be a really awesome looking music video. Can't wait. Good job, Corey. I really want to be on The Student Handbook one time. Just saying.

Dan's shoot was more what I'm used to, but still different. He asked me to take some behind the scenes photos for him on set. So I charged up my camera, and turned up, and got underway snapping at everything. I think I ended up with about 270 photos over 2 days. It was greeeeeaaaat. I got some really awesome photos of which I'm rly happy with!!! The shoots went a bit long but that's to be expected in the Filmie world. He's got more to shoot this week but I don't know if I'm going to be there.

My comic, Chino the Cat, is currently being digitally inked. I've finished about 3 pages worth of backgrounds. It's really hard finding time to do everything, and I was really, really hoping to have started earlier than what I did but I seriously had no spare time for it. I really hope that I can finish it before it's due in 7 days time. It's just as important to me as The Cat Kids is. I can't give up any more time for shoots. I need to focus on my own projects from now on. I will be so sad if I don't end up finishing it. Geez. BUT what I have done so far looks awesome, in my brain. So I'm happy. I can tell that I'm spending the next week staying at my computer until 11pm everyday :E

In my PrePro, we are in the process of getting our greenscreen shoots underway. Three of us are using our classtime tomorrow to shoot our stuff in the green screen room. It's not much, we each have to film a clip about 10 seconds long. I'm yet to shoot the background for it though. I'm thinking I shall do that tomorrow morning. Just get a random clip of the scenery. This paper is actually quite interesting, and Vaughn's always great to have as a tutor. Always makes sure we understand everything, and goes over stuff endlessly until we have it memorised. Tomorrow is going to be interesting, I'm going to make someone rub an eggplant on someone else.

My editing of The Cat Kids isn't getting really far. Again, it's an issue of time. If only there were more hours in the day. I'm neeaarrllly finished synching up the audio with the video. Some files are missing so I'm going to hunt those down when I next get on it. Then I can put together a rough edit, show Patrick, then do whatever else I need. Chuck the special effects, the ADR, the soundtrack in. THE SOUNDTRACK??! Ahhh I'm running out of time. Pete asked if he could make it. I really like that idea, but I just hope he would get enough time. And I have to colour grade it! I HATE COLOUR 'GRADING'. Isn't it more colour correcting what we have to do with the BMC?? I'm not wanting to put any fancy tones on the film. Just make the colours look like what they're supposed to look like. Blues blues and reds red. I don't know the software. Guess I'll have to learn that.

GEN200. hahahahahahahaha don't make me laugh. I literally had no idea what the heck we were supposed to be talking about in our presentations until Karl randomly came in and explained it to everyone. I have no idea why we weren't told all that before. I don't understand why they would just tell us to make a presentation and not tell us how we were supposed to present. Literally, wtf. It's such a shame that I can't resubmit my presentation, seriously it's pissing me off. I might be able to get a better grade but because of the lack of tutorship in that ridiculous paper I have to get less than what I could get. I understand now what I'm presenting, but when I was writing the powerpoint, I didn't. The Lectures are confusing as well. They don't line up with the Tutorials. Like, we got told to go out and survey people in the lecture. Then in the tutorial we get told not to do that?? My god. No wonder a lot of us don't understand that paper. I say ditch the whole paper altogether. I don't understand why we need it, we are in a creative school, we don't need all this statistical crud. We need to express ourselves via film, via music, via theatre, via painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, via art. Not via learning about some guys giving people electric shocks, or via giving presentations. Not via just saying what we are going to create. We need to create.