My final week.

So. I'm nearing my days here at SIT. This is a strange feeling.

This past week I've had my photography journal due, and now I'm currently working on my last ever assignment. Promo stuff for Ko's World and myself.

My hard drive broke at some point on Friday, which has all of my files for 2013 and 2014, and some of 2015. Great. The week before semester ends. Thanks, hard drive. It's not like I needed those files for an assignment or anything :I

But yeah, not much to report on apart from the promo and career development stuff. I'm doing that.

Not too sure what I'm supposed to write about in my action plan. I mean like, yeah I know what I want to be doing, but jeez, I just want to chill for a month or so first. I don't plan to move and jump straight into the industry the week after semester ends. That's impossible. Sheesh. I need to raise some money for that first, so I can move out of home. Also, my trailer is a trailer. I don't plan to submit it to festivals. My plan is to expand on the story. That's what I want to do with it. And then send it to companies or whatever you do with scripts. I feel this is too ambitious though, for what Patrick wants of us. It doesn't align with my action plan so much.

Bloggity

Blog? Blog?? What do I blog about?

This week I handed in Ko's World, the trailer. And now, I am working on my showreel. This blog is going to get an awful mark, because I really can't remember what happened. It's just.... gone from my brain for some reason XD. Oh well. I remember the emotion of it all though, and I'm pretty sure I experienced nearly all emotions that I possibly could in the few hours before hand in.

But here's a pretty picture I took.

I feel as though my passion for photography has grown over the past year, and I really love it. I mean, I loved it before, but after actually studying it for a year, and actually having tasks to take photos of, it seems to have developed inside myself into something more than what it was. I'm entering Canon's Eyecon competition this year. It's a film and photography competition for students. I've been wanting to enter since I started at SIT, but I was never happy with the standard of how my films turned out. But this year, seeing as I'm also a photography student, I'm eligible to enter eyecon as a photographer. So that is what I am going to do.

But yeah, after I handed my trailer in, I went and ate pancakes from McD's, because I deserve it, and I ate them furiously, because it makes sense in my head. I am ecstatic with my trailer. I love it to bits. I am actually proud of what I have made. Yeah, the sound and colour grade could have been a hell of a lot better, but my main focuses for the project were the story, cinematography, and the pacing of the trailer, which I achieved to how I wanted it to be. I think it's beautiful..

I should probably disappear before I get all sappy and shit, and start likening it to a love that's not quite there.

What? I didn't say anything.

Getting work done, yo!! A week of multiple things going wrong.

Blog tiimmme. Hi guys, it's Wednesday.

Let's see now, what have I been up to. I found my location release form that had gone missing. I found this really neat song track works with my trailer really well. The first part of it, at least. Well see what happens with the 2nd part. Colour grading and sound edit are still to come. Da Vinci Resolve, I now think I'm comfortable with. Pro tools?? I can't remember when I last used that. I don't think I've actually been taught how to properly edit sound on it. No, actually, I haven't. The audio class we took was more like making music and sound effects etc, and learning about recording foley and adr. So. I don't really know why we have to use that software when we haven't really been shown what we have to use it for. Ah. YouTube tutorials might have to help. But anyway. I have a draft of my photography book. The final is due the day after my film trailer is due. So fun times.

I hate trumpets. In the song track, there is a trumpet. BUUUUT the music licence for it says I can alter it and what not, and I do have the individual instrument tracks for it, soooooooo, bye bye trumpets >:)

So yah, I had a wee play around in Pro Tools, taking out various instruments that I didn't like, and keep the ones that I did like. It ended up pretty neat.


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Saturday today. Let's see, what have I been up to. Editing.

Da Vinci Resolve decided to not work for me the first time I imported my project. Basically, the same problem it was having last year. Ughhhh. But, it came to my attention, via Patrick and certain clips on the timeline, that it might actually have something to do with the subclips. Da Vinci Resolve does not like subclips. I went back into Premiere and replaced the subclips with the original video tracks, and just trimmed them to match what I had. Imported that into Resolve, and hey presto, it freaking worked. Now, if I had known that was the way to fix it, I would have had Cat Kids finished on time. I'm freaking pissed. Ughh.


But anyway, yesterday was dedicated to Da Vinci Resolve, and the things that come with that. All my footage is mostly correctly white balanced, it's just exposure that needs tinkering around with.

Apart from this one particular blimmin' clip of the character Joe.

It still looks weird, doesn't it? I can't frikken get the colour levels to align properly so that they don't look odd. Frustrating.

I'm not an expert at colour editing, but I'm pretty sure it's not meant to look like this. And I can't get that red to stop being such a hog.

But anyway. Apart from that, I think I'm nearly done with exposure and colour correctly. Now to decide if I want to apply any sort of colour grade, to make it look all fancy and cinematic and what not.

So I guess sound edit is to come after that.

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What's animator been up to with my fairy? They've been busy doing animator stuff with it, grizzling about it all the way. 

It looks technical. I get told of things that are happening with it, but really, I have no idea what is going on XD

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I spent a bit more time tinkering around with that clip in Resolve, this is what I got

It does look a wee bit better than what it was before (below)

I r colour edit pro nao

Weee don't get him grumpeh

Why do we have to make our final 1920x1080 when I shot in 2k?

Eh..

Ok it's evening now. Lots of progress has been made thus far. Kyle came in and gave us a few pointers in Protools, which was great. 

And animator is apparently done. The animation only took about 20 minutes to render XD

So that thing is apparently in my trailer. Haha, I'm pretty stoked that it was made. It's so cute and flowery and omg it moves and flaps its wings and it's so cool and look at its little face and its wee mouth and omg it bliiinnnnkssss

But something I'd like to see is at the start when it flies in, is it being a bit blurry, so it matches with the shallow focusing of the clip. But that's a job for tomorrow.

Yayyyy. I owe them chocolate.

Sundayyyy. I don't know how to edit audio in Pro Tools. All the tutorials online are for songssss

And I am CRYING because freaking out about things wahhh

Sunday night. I got some peeps to draw on my frames. You'll see what I mean when you watch the final, lol

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Modaayyy SHIT UGH THIS BLOG WAS DUE THIS MORNING Freaking hell, the public holiday today got me all confused and I thought it was still the weekend. :I

But anyway. There were some corrupted frames with the animation when I went to go stick the blur on the animation in its Premiere file. That is what I was majorly freaking out about yesterday. But it's all good now. Tarri came in and fixed it, yayyy. So all that just for getting it to be blurry, which only took about 1 minute for that to be applied :/

So now it looks like it is part of the environment.

Also what's been happening is I've been getting a bunch of people to draw on my frames, for a different part of the trailer. When Adult Ko transitions to Child Ko, to make it look all cool and magic and transitiony, I'm applying the technique that was used in the Skrillex/Diplo music video with Justin Bieber

So far there's been myself, Josh, Lee and Corey who've done so. It's looking pretty neat.

 

 

There's about another 40 odd frames to draw on. I asked some internet peeps. If you're reading this and want to draw on it, I'm in the MacLab. Like literally. I live there.

Right. Posting blog, and then carrying on.

Peace out, home skillet biscuits. My mum thinks you're all neat.

6 sugars, please

I'd like to order a strong cup of motivation, please.

I'm going to be as honest as I've ever been on these blogs. This whole semester has been a huge struggle to find the motivation to do anything. Shit happening in my personal life in regards to my living situation really brought me down at the start of it, and I really haven't managed to get back at all. I thought I did, but ehh, not so much. I don't find joy in anything I used to find interesting anymore, even things outside of SIT. And I feel as though I always have to be doing something. Such conflict... It bothers me if I'm left without anything to do for even a few seconds. That never used to cause me much annoyance. Back in the day I'd quite happily take a few hours to just chill. Now, I can't be left without something to do. BUT where the confusion comes in, is the fact that I don't find anything I end up doing, entertaining. I slide from one task to the other, and most of it is nowhere near what I'm meant to be doing. I... guess I feel ashamed to do anything that interests me, if it would. I don't know why I'm like that. I really just want the year to be over so I can go home and hang out with my cat in the North Island sun. Another thing causing me concern is the fact that I really have no idea where I'm going after this course. Of course, I have connections down here in the South, but I miss my family immensely, and I hate being so far isolated from them. Imagine not being able to see your mum or dad or siblings or spouse or kids for years at a time. It's just yourself, and there's noone there to go home to in the evening. There's noone around to have experiences with, and loneliness greets you like a lover the moment you step into the empty living room. Silence presses against your ears. You try to drown it out with music, but it'll always be there. It never leaves, so you resign to becoming a victim of the silence. And a victim of the silence, I now realise, I have become. 

Where is the creative motivation that drove me, once upon a time? 

Yeah, I know, I'm not supposed to write blogs like this, but it relates to my course in the way that all my projects have taken the toll with this. I'm not proud. I don't feel as though I've done as much editing as I should have by now. I keep mucking around with it, like a cat playing with its catch. Batting it around this way and that. I don't like it. I cannot see a way in which the trailer is going to work. As of this moment in time, I fear that it is under the minimum time, by a few seconds, yes, but these things cannot be swept aside with a "she'll be right" attitude. The whole thing does not make sense. It's just bits of a story that don't fit together. Even the story, I don't believe is anything decent. It needs work. My dream is to write for a living. But if I don't have the motivation to work upon my written things, then how am I going to get anywhere? Photography has been left behind. I mentioned the project due. I really don't want to go out and take photos for it. I have about 5. We're making a book of them. I need maybe about 5 to 15 more. The theme is place, and how different perspectives affect the way places are looked at, told through refraction and reflection. This is my kitchen, through a glass. An example.

I also have a presentation to give, this Friday, about my internship experiences. That's going to be easy enough. I just need to create the slideshow.

I was on the radio today. I'm using my time on the show as my personal development hours. I need to get it signed off, though, if I want them to actually be seen as part of PD hours. I guess I'll have to find a time to go see mr manager and talk to him about it. I haven't seen him in months.


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I'm not going to get anything done, if I don't get out and do it.
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Friday evening. Raining. I'm in the MacLab. Believe it or not, today and yesterday, I was a good girl, and actually did some course stuff!! YAY GOOD GIRL, KIMBERLEY.

Yesterday I wandered around with a glass full of water. I went to the park, and took project photos. I got some neat stuff!!!

After that I kidnapped Brentarri and went to the beach. Again, I got some neat photos for my project

Ahmmm. On the way there.. My car kind of got stuck in the sand... O_O well that's going to be a memory forever. We dug out the sand from under it, and then some helpful stranger came along and pulled my car out of the sand. There was even a lol made from the whole adventure

Today, I edited my chosen photos that will be definitely going into my photography project. I may have also got a bit side tracked at some point and made other stuff. 

Like this photomontage

Crazy upside down world of his mind

And this.... This.

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I do apologise for this blog being a few hours late. By the time we wrapped on Callum's shoot last night, SIT was well and truly closed for the day. And I couldn't get into campus any earlier today. (monday)

Saturday and Sunday was dedicated to Callum's shoot. It's going well. Weather isn't helping, though.

Start of term END OF MY DEGREE OH MY GOD I'M NOT READY, BE GENTLE

Photography. Fuck.

It's due in two weeks. The project. Oh my god. Shit



But in other news, I've started editing my film.


Kind of.

So today, being Thursday now, I went out a took some photos for a photographer research thing. I'm really slack at doing them, but if I don't do something, it's never going to get done. Here's a pic of a lady trying to cross the road. Street photography was the topic, Joel Meyerowitz was the photographer in research. Not this photo, though. I took this photo. I still think I prefer to take other types of photos. But there are some really neat street photographers. I really like Vivian Maier's work. She has a neat story.

Also today animator did some animating stuff for the flower fairies in my film project, of which I need to get round to properly starting to edit.

I have no idea what is going on here. Animator stuff.

So yeah the film project is due on the 27th of October. 

Today being Sunday, I am a miserable procrastinator, god damn, someone just give me chocolate and snugs. I am editing because I am grump grump at having to edit. It makes sense in my brain.

Internship week two!!

Tuesday

So yeah I'm getting into the flow of things pretty well now, at least I think I am. More mail stuff today, packaging up prizes and addressing them and taking them down stairs. I attended a couple of meetings, the first your general "this is what happened, this is what's going to happen, this could be better" type, but the other was what they call a "craft" meeting. It took a couple of hours, and all the props and stuff where detailed in it, as they went though the next two Sunday's shows. Oh, the innuendo that can come from these guys XD It amuses me so. They trust me with Gary. Gary is what they call their car. I drove it around a bit today, all by myself. It's a friggen station wagon. "Take Gary to the petrol station, then give him a clean at the 'Splash n Dash'". Simple enough instructions right? Yes. But getting there wasn't that easy. I got loooossst again, even though I had written directions to get to the place literally right around the corner. Oh my gosh. Fun times though. I learnt that Christchurch has really bad road rage. I've adapted the mindset of my own safety is more important than the grumpy person behind me. There was also a mini party in the board room, with birthday cake and wine and chips and dip. It lasted about half an hour. These people are too cool. Did I mention that a couple of them were riding bicycles around the office?


Wednesday

Today, today, today was such a beautiful day. Still loving this internship, but maannnn I really wanted to be outside. I went for a stroll at lunchtime, so I suppose that counts. Other than that, sorting mail, sorting prizes, sorting stuff in a few boxes to make sure it's tidy. BUT today I got to touch the gunge. IT'S SO GROSS!!! :D I filled up heaps of bottles with the stuff, but a lot of it has glumps of god knows what it in, so I mashed it up with my fingers so it'd fit in the freaking bottles XD I have a weird feeling that it's like envelopes or something that's been brewing in the liquid, but who knows, hahaha


Thursday, Friday

There was more Gary driving. Thursday I had to count allllll the entries for the make a minion competition. There were 486. I ALREADY DIDN'T LIKE MINIONS, THIS WAS TORTURE OH MY GOD. Ahhh I drive Gary to the bank. Friday. I actually do that much, apart from getting some groceries for them.

And thus my time with Whitebait TV ended. It's been a great two weeks, a time that I'll remember for as long as my memory will allow.

Internship week 1!!!

Saturday

Today was a day filled with driving. 1pm I left Invers. It took me much longer to get to Herbert than I originally thought. 6pm was when I arrived. 6PM! Oh my god, my car does not like hills at all. Anyway. Not much to report on today, other than the fact that I got lost in Oamaru when I went there in search of food. I keep forgetting that Invercargill meal portions are considered huge in the rest of the country. I found some food at a fish shop, and was disappointed in how little I ended up with. I ended up having two teas, because I was still hungry after my first one and it’s disappointingly small portion size. I wanted to find the penguin colony that was signposted. But I ended up in some sort of industrial area. Booo. The holiday park I'm staying at is really nice. It has a cottage feel to it. There are little gardens everywhere, and fairy lights and solar lamps. Tiny pathways leading to various different parts of the park. Farm animals. It’s out in the country so you can see heaps of stars. There’s also a little river, with really clear water that makes me want to go swimming and fishing. The owners are really, really welcoming, and the shared kitchen and lounge area are exceptional. I feel paying $50 for the night is so much of an understatement. I wish I got here earlier, because then I would have been able to take some photos of this really neat place. If you are looking for a place to stay, definitely come to Riverside Haven and Holiday Park, just outside of Herbert. I lovvee it.

Sunday

The rest of the drive was undertaken today. I spent a bit more time in Oamaru, it's a neat place. I went to the market, and got a bacon sandwich, just cuz. I also went to the cheese factory, because I love cheese. Timaru is cool too, there was a seal on the beach.

I got to Christchurch and hunted down Sonada, which is where I'm staying. There was a bit of confusion and being locked outside of a closed office but I got into my room eventually. ^_^ I disappeared off to Whitebait TV, to scope it out, and got lost on the way back, haha.

9am start tomorrow, I'm sure I'll be able to talk a bit about it, I hope. I'm hungry. I'm going to go find some food. I'll probably get lost again. Oh well XD


Monday

Curse my ridiculous shyness. Other than that, everything went well. The people at Whitebait TV are all really great, and they seem like the type of people that I'd get along with. I arrived in the morning to be greeted by an insane amount of chirpy eagerness to start the day. It was.... somewhat creepy, but it's great to see people who are so happy with what they do. Everything was very routine, and set to a tight schedule. The flow of things was quite easy to get into. There was even a dog that hung around all day. Layla. Layla is cool. They're all obsessed with the Rugby World Cup.. It was one of the first things that someone talked about when I got there, the game between NZ and Argentina. In the way of stuff I did, there was a VT viewing in the morning, which is basically watching all the A and B roll for the coming episodes. The guy who got his leg waxed, that was an interesting watch. After that there was a walkthrough/readthrough type thing in the studio, where they went though the next four episodes and timed them to make sure it'd fit in their timeslot. There was much laughter and cheery working. I saw a couple of Sony 1000's, presuming this is what they use to shoot with. How interesting.

Something I've noticed, even on my first day, is how technically immersive the film course at SIT is. I had gotten used to all the cameras and the lighting and the editing and everything else during my time at SIT. I had started to see this as normal, everyday life. Nay, if today was anything to go by. There was hardly any technicality to be seen.

Also, I'm am finding my way around Christchurch better. I went on a big long walk that took me a few hours, and I didn't get lost. It helped that I created a story with the street names that I went down. My Peers are obsessed with Bath(Yald)hurst. The cars are all quite Ric(carton)kety, and they always use the Middle(ton) lane, but hey it's the only way to get to Blenheim. And thus, I arrived at The Warehouse, and I bought myself a neat little watch that just barely fit my wrist.


Tuesday

I had fun today. Turns out, there's at least four Sony 1000s. We shot next week's episodes this morning. It was all very interesting. I cable wrangled for the cam ops XD. I love how most of the crew were female! This is a great thing to see! Both the camera operators, and the one running the shooting (I'm guessing it would be the TV equivalent of a 1st AD), were chicks. It's great. I learnt a lot about how things flowed. It's all very set to schedule, as mentioned before. It was done well, so, and it was a very great environment. I even got to wear comms!

Very interesting being able to hear the in studio stuff going around me and the people in the control room at the same time. The director was in the control room, most of the time you could hear him laughing at something, one time it was at how ridiculously fast he was getting the two cameras to switch. "Camera 1, standing by... 1 cut. Camera 2, standby... 2 cut. Camera 1 stand by, 1 cut, 2 cut, 1 cut" There were shots lasting 1 second, almost XD So yeah, that was the morning. The afternoon was spent packaging up prizes and addressing them and what not. Whitebait TV are all great people. I really enjoy being in this environment. I wouldn't mind working there, if there was work for me there, one day. Tomorrow morning is the last I'll spend with The 4:30 Show. The rest of the internship is to be spent with What Now. I've met them. It's really hard not to, seeing as they share the same areas, heh heh. It's like, I pick up my bag off of my desk at 4:30 Show, walk 3 steps, boom, I'm in What Now area.

Wednesday

Tirred. I got lost again. But anyway. Today was fun!! In the morning I got to watch a bit of the edit, all put together on AVID Media Composer, making Pat Pat right about the fact that they use it. That was interesting. Everything we shot yesterday is now all ready to be sent of to TVNZ for them tomorrow, and it will go to air next week. Then I got assigned some research duties... Finding some articles about NZ teens doing cool things. I really like the story about the dude who sings opera and is going to compete at some point in the near future. He only discovered his talent a couple of years ago after watching "Les Miserables" on DVD by accident, and fell in love with opera from that.

Afternoon I jumped on over to the What Now side of things. It's so cool! I got given a real job today! :D Director's Assistant.... Slating and writing down the shot details for the peeps in edit. Also, hitting Ronnie the presenter in the head with a rubber chicken for a skit XD. I think my hand is going to be on What Now. Oh god, my hand is going to be faammmouuuus.

I need to SLEEP!!


Thursday

Oh wow, I'm almost halfway through this whole experience! I'm having such a great time!!! I really love love love Whitebait TV. Gosh, I sound so childish saying that... But it's just such a great place! Honestly, I'm stoked and immensely honoured that I get to be here.

Today I attended What Now's rehearsal, which was somewhat similar to The 4:30 Show's rehearsal, but different. It was in the same studio, but The 4:30 Show's set had been wheeled out and What Now's set wheeled in. It's a lot smaller than I pictured it would be. I pretended to be a kid at some point (like literal acting so they can get the times, not just what I normally doing when I don't want to be an adult), it was a great morning. I also watched a bit of the voiceover recording. Protools was the software for that. Good ol' Protools. There was another VT viewing. Other than that, opening and sorting some mail, and some prize sorting stuff to do with Excel and names and tracking codes. They trust me with their computers, oh my god. Oh, got invited to hang with them tomorrow night. Ronnie says I'm part of the family. He's cool. Annoying but likeable, but not in the same way as Mr Tarrikovich is, yip. God damn, I miss Invercargill. As much of a brilliant time that I'm having here, I do miss people back at SIT. I want to be on my class' shoooootssss.


Friday

This morning was another rehearsal for What Now, but this one was waayyyy more like a live show. The games were played and the food was cooked and the presenters acted like the cameras where really there. I pretended to be the guest star, Bailey Mes, she's a Silver Fern. It was a fun morning :]


Sunday

Live show this morning!! God, what a hive of activity!! And so many Chris's!!! There was another work experience dude in this morning, called Chris. We got to observe the show, half in studio, half in the control room. That was interesting, seeing how it's all run from both ends. Behind those cameras, man, a whoollle bunch of people running about doing what they do.

Ahh. I'm not really sure what is happening for the rest of the week. I'm not really sure if I go in tomorrow, to be honest. People be telling me different things, making me confused. :I

But anyway. That was week one. It was funnnnnn

After Shoot Halcyonity

Tuesday

I have decided that if I'm going to keep eating so much pizza, then it's going to at least have a little amount of decent pizza-ness. No more fake pizzas. I'll just eat the real ones. They may be a little more healthier. And I can build up my immunity system too! Cuz I'm bad at touching keyboards and not washing my hands before eating, ahaa.

As mentioned in my previous blog, I shot my film this past weekend. It was a grand time. I was calm for the entire time. That is incredible, as my past two end of year projects have been a hell of a lot of on set stress and my brain thinking at insane speeds too fast for me to handle. But this project, there was this overall on set feeling of calm. Even when we didn't have all the crew there, even when it was raining, or when food was later than expected, or we didn't have gear that as needed, I was happy. And I'm still happy. Happiness is a great thing. I feel the air outside and it's warmer. I look around me and there's so much more colour. Spring is here. Spring is great. Spring brings happiness. I very well could be back to who I really am, then... That is the thing hi I'm not Kim that stuck out the most for me out of everything to do with my shoot. The happiness and calm that I had. We don't need to worry about technicalities. If someone is happy, then what right do we have to depreciate them? We don't all need to be the next big name in film-making. I find that we spend too much time striving to reach an inaccessible goal that has been set on us by societal pressures.

Something I've noticed with the F55, is that you tend to end up with darker footage than what it looks when you're out shooting it. So. That is something I have to actually think about quite soon, and I'm leaving for two weeks this weekend, and animator needs to do his animator thing with the footage being at the correct light levels and what not. Now, getting it up to the correct exposure will be easy, but I'm not yet fully decided on the overall colour grade of the film. I wonder if that will be a problem.... Hmm. Either way I'll be stoked with what I get.

I have my photography journal due on Friday, and I've barely done anything. As Kevin said a few weeks ago, he's "never seen a film student make a decent journal". There was once a time where I wanted to prove him wrong. Buuuut it seems I am following the ways of all previous film slash photography student hybrids. Oh bother. My excuses include: "But I just don't think like that", "I was so busy with my trailer" and "Satan's sacrificial waterfall got in the way of me being able to complete this assignment"

I scare myself sometimes with what I write. Why do I write? For what reason do I enjoy this medium, and what effect does it have on a potential audience? I'm having trouble believing I am anything, and yet... Words that I read, words that I write, they set upon me a certain emotion within myself that I cannot access in any other way. There must be a reason for that. That brings me to ask, why?

I think I might do some editing. I don't know how to use Da Vinci Resolve very well.


Wednesday

Photography journal wasn't due Friday. It was due TODAY. >:[

Also I am grumpy because I can't understand Da Vinci Resolve. Ahhh I need to get these clips donnneee. I did something with them in Premiere. It looks better.


Thursday

There is a class in the MacLab right now. Curses! I saw Everest, just on a whim. Mostly because Jake Gyllenhaal's character looks pretty cool. Some parts of the film tugged on the ol' heartstrings. I didn't cry. It just made me empathetic. Hoorah. It was a warm sunny day today and being on Mt Everest for two hours made me cold.

Why the hell is my laptop making so much noise lately? I want to see if I can colour edit clips on the slightly different Da Vinci Resolve software I have on my laptop, but I'm scared it will give my laptop a heart attack.

Pophamcorn tried to give everyone a clock. It was apparently a game. He wouldn't tell me who's it was, but then the next part of the game was for me to give it to someone else, and not tell them who owned it. I passed it on to Allen. Who passed it on to someone else. Aman had it at some point. He gave it back to me. I gave it back to the wall. And just now, Chris has tried to sneak it back in my possession by putting it on the maclab whiteboard. I HAVE EYES IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD, CHRIS CHRIS. I put it in his locker. He found it while I was AFK, and put it on my keyboard. I'm going to hold onto it for a while. I have to make sure it ends up in its rightful place.

Help me. He's currently sitting over there complaining about Macs while using one to fix his external harddrive.

Okay so for the past three-ish hours I've been doing a thing. You guys know that music video that Skrillex/Diplo/Justin Bieber put out? Yeah. Well, I really love how the frames in it have stuff all drawn onto it. SO I had an idea to use that same technique for the transitioning between Adult Ko and Child Ko. I made a wee test thing to see how it turned out, and well, people love it. So I might stick with this idea :) Check it out >--here--<


Friday

The game continues. It's in Dan's possesion now.

Also class in which we were supposed to be learning Da Vinci Resolve but IT'S NOT HAPPENINGGGGG

Resolve learnings happened in the end

Tomorrow I am driving to Oamaru, and then on Sunday I am going to Christchurch, to begin my two week long internship with Whitebait TV. :)

The final Countdown!! v1 featuring glorious beards

Today is Monday

I start shooting on Friday.

I spent all day in the lounge, on my laptop. Classes have the maclab at the worst of times, really. I have consumed far too many pizzas over the past month. Oh dear, it's first year all over again. I'm going put on mooorreee weight. Not that I care. Anyway. I sent off a bunch of messages to heaps of people and made call sheets and what not. Still need to find two more actors. The weather says it's going to rain this weekend. That's not what I want to read. Speaking of first year, I read one of the first year's blogs, and then I was reminiscing the good ol' days. Ahhhh first year. I miss first year, and all it's blissful ignorance. But I'm a man now, and my glorious beard has teamed up with the hair on my chest to create a Southern Hurricane masculine enough to make even the burliest of Southland's gents beg for mercy. .... I really have to stop eating so much pizza


Tuesday

This morning I did stuff for Lee's film.


Wednesday

Photography today. We took some photos for a few minutes then looked at editing them in Adobe Lightroom. I found the exercise quite helpful. We were told to take reflection photos, which is actually what I'm looking at for my photography project this semester.

It's a car. Familiar building.

Also journal work

Also freaking out about trailer. This is the point where all I can do is make a bunch of weird squeaks and murmurs. ahhh ehh ah ah ah maaa rr ahhh. I hopefully have Meadow for the girl but I still need one more actor. This keeps dwelling on my brain, and making me far more stressed than I need, because everything else is pretty much sorted and good to go.

I came into campus hoping Batteries would be here so I could streetpass him. He is not :I

I'm going to need a hell of a lot of chocolate to keep me from going nuts tomorrow. I've already demolished $10 worth today. Creating shot lists, at the moment. "At the moment" is so much less of a harsh way of saying "right now".

Friday and Weekend

Shot my film. It was really fun. Check it out here

FILMING STUFFFF!!!! :D

OH MY GO YAY HAPPY KIMBERLEY. CLAP CLAP CLAP HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY JOY I'M JUST SO FULL OF POSITIVE ENERGY RIGHT NOW. Ahhh, I love filming <3 :D

Ko's feet, a still from the film

Friday it RAIINNNNED. But that was not enough to stop this Waughrior!!! Huzzah! We put the gazebos up and the tarps around it so the gear was at least a little bit sheltered. It didn't rain rain, so that was a bonus. It still rained enough for it to be called a rainy day though. We shot with umbrellas and rain coats and it was overall an interesting experience. We had the ever so lovely Suvarna from cert arts playing my witch character, and she did it soooo well!! She came pretty much already in character, because that's just how she dresses :D I'm very happy with it. The crew were a great help, too.

It was sunny Saturday, though. We have Meadow playing the kid character, and she was so good :) Even though we didn't get everything shot, it was still a good day. Nice and cruisy, just like I like it. I had Josh playing my Cyrin character, and he suited the costume so well, hah hah. 

Another still from the film

It was a good day, and I'm happy with what I got. Some pretty neat shots are in this trailer. I really hope to have a lot of colour come through. You saw earlier, with the purple shoes, and this shot here, that green is actually quite vivid.... Green is something that I'd definitely be wanting to have. The story takes place in a forest, so there's green there, but it can just tend to get a wee bit... Dull... after a while, and fade off, as you can see here in the original still.

But yeah, that hat is neat. Everybody had it on at some point :]

Friday was pretty sweet aswell. Back out at Seaward Bush for the first part, then at St Mary's Basilica.

We're all wrapped now, grand :)

Great shoot.

countdown

Tuesday

Today I tackled two classes at once, and went out to Seaward Bush. The plan was to hunt down and finalise locations for my trailer, and to take some 35mm photos for Photography class. Well, I found several bits and areas that could well work for all the scenes that require forestry. It would save having to go out to different forests in one day, when we could stay within the same immediate location, saving precious time. The lighting in the forest is going to be interesting. If the SLR in my hands couldn't get an exposure at the widest aperture and 1/60th of a second (I shan't dare go below 1/60th for fear of blurriness), I wonder how the F55 would hold up. Hmm. Perhaps changing the story is an idea (lol jk pls don't kill me Patrick)


Wednesday

Today was photography class. Me and Dan developed some negatives. Not much else.


Thursday

Today I sussed out location permissions for Seaward Bush and the Basilica. Parks Division were the same old same old (fill out this and this, yeah what days did you want it?) but the Basilica peeps seemed quite interested in my shoot, and super friendly. It's always great when people are friendly. I also had a meeting to suss out catering, peeps are going to eat real food on my shoot. I still need to finalise my cast. I think that's about it. Eeek, freaking out.

Friday

Film class today. My film project kept sleep away from me last night. Yayyy tired Kimberley. I'm freaking out because I feel pressured to create top of the line stuff. I want to look after myself first, and create stuff that I can handle without losing my shit on set. But, that pressure is still there, because third year, I'm a big Filmie now and I hear the other big Filmies talking about so, so much technical stuff and fussing over this and fussing over that and working with a million different people and it all sounds very huge and complicated and technical and well thought out. It's not like my own projects don't have that, but theirs... Theirs just seem to be so much more high end. You can achieve the same level with simple things, too... Ahh. I need an adult.


Sunday

WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF I DON'T FIND THE REST OF MY CAST, GUYS?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAAAPEEEENNNN??? D:

Also. We made loom bracelets. Ben and Josh turned up at some point, thinking there was a party. They were greeted at the door by a box full of loom bands being shoved into their arms.

Time's Ticking.......................

Monday

I hate budgets. I hate theeemmmm. I add up all the numbers but they always, always end up being wrong! Gah! Rah! Throwing Mac screens around! I hate maths!!! I took up 4 pages in my book, scribbling down random bits and bobs for it!

All I did for course today was write up the budget. The end.

But I'm a Happy Kimberley tonight, mostly because money came through and I got dessert pizza :3


Tuesday

I came into the maclab to find it PACKED!

Also The handbook is confusing because classmates tell me that such and such is expected in certain ways that are not outlined in the book. WHHHHHAAAAAAAAT       TT_TT

I AM VERY CONFUSED RIGHT NOW

Scenechronize. I haven't used this software since last year. I wasn't that fond of it at the time, but I did find it helpful. I apparently have to use it again. Joy.


Wednesday

In Photography today we took a bunch of different types of lenses to different places and took some photos... I had a wide angle 18 - 35mm on a Nikon D90. I'm far more used to macro, so it was interesting working with it to see what I could come up with. I think I came up with some neat pics anyway. I went to the train station and trespassed on the side that nobody is supposed to go on. Hah hah, I'm such a rebel.

Crossing the line. Cuz like, I do that a lot.

One of my fave pics I took. I like the framing in it.

This is actually a teaser pic for my end of year photography project.

As mentioned in an earlier blog, I'm playing around with refraction and reflection to capture individual perceptions of places. We all see places, but what makes places different for each and every one of us, is how we see them for ourselves.

I made this photo by sticking my glasses in front of the lens, and trusting to god that it was focused, because I sure as hell couldn't see anything sharp without my precious spectacles. Haha, it worked!!

Also more prepro for trailer happened.


Thursday

More Prepro stuff, mainly just going over things and making sure they work. Reassured Aman at some point that Patrick is going to believe his storyboards are his own.

I forgot how to print stuff, and that I need to remove the bottle top first, before putting water in the bottle.

I need to sleep, BUT, less than 24 hours until hand in SOOOOOO yeah. I fell asleep on the couch in the lounge, until Chris and Vincent came along and woke me up with their voices.

A recurring thought that appears with everyone, why is every assignment worth 10% this semester? It's a bit of a bother, really... A lot of us don't really like how hard we're working, when our film is only 10%. Dear Patrick, perhaps make a paper separate from the combined project. Thanks, Kimberley.


Friday

WE ALL TURNED UP IN THE MORNING AND WORKED ON OUR ASSIGNMENT. THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH A FEW ASSIGNMENTS, ACROBAT CRASHED FOR IRIS, AND I WENT FOR A RUN TO THE SCANNER TO SCAN IN LEE'S STORYBOARDS

NOW, WE COMMENCE ON OUR FILMS.


Saturday

You know, I came into campus this morning to do some photography journal work, got reminded that Lego Movie exists, and then went on a huge mind wandering journey about totalitarian themes in the film, ahahaa this is what my brain used to do, before dark clouds decided to move in. I ended up writing half an essay about it XD I love writing essays.