Greenscreen shenanigans

Hello beautiful people. How are you on this beautiful Saturday evening? It's quite early isn't it my dear readers, but to me, it feels quite, late hmm yes, it's not even 9:30pm and I'm already so exhausted.

Well. Today. Let me tell you! In both the way that Patrick loves and hates. We've been trucking along filming stuff for Beast of Fawkes today, greenscreen stuff that is. Prior to today there was a whole lot of sand brought in and set down in the new drawing studio, to create the ground of which we are apparently reshooting. As in. We shot this scene some weeks ago but we are doing it again but the background and environment are just greenscreened and our lovely animator friends (yay $30) are gonna do what they do. We got ridiculously behind schedule but it was all fun anyway. Always learning.

So today (and tomorrow) we only had two people in the camera department. Our DoP is working in the weekend and our original camera operator had to go back to his home country. So. It was just me and Aman. Neither of us had really much experience on the F55 so we had been freaking out a bit previously about having to be put into these roles. But you know what, that Virat sure knows his stuff. Yesterday he calmed us down and told us what we needed to do and what to concentrate on and how to do it. So today we put his wise words into action and I believe that me and the Man did a brilliant job at it. Aman was trucking along being camera operator and I was doing my 1st AC stuff and it was great. I learnt a heck of a lot about the F55. And not only that, but a bunch of other stuff, just from observing everyone else doing what they were doing.

I want to give a big shout out to Crackers, our brilliantly crazy Anne, who did so well being random BTS and the "slate", which ended up being a whiteboard and handclaps because we didn't have the proper slate. Also Chris, good work Chris you're doing a fantastic job (he literally says that line about everyone every 10 minutes, oh my god please save me)

So yeah highlights of my day (as chosen by me):
Everyone (just John, Vince and Chris really) so like everyone was east Maccas Hotcakes this morning. Everyone just had this haze of "oh my goooood I want to go back to sleep" so these three just decided to eat mcdonalds. And then someone didn't want their butter. I taught Anne how to use the Nikon D90 at some point. Fak I hate those cameras (my opinion and I have reasons so don't hate me ooookaaayyy). OH this morning I did one of my favourite things and helped someone with their spelling!!! YAY SMART KIMBERLEY :D hey if anyone wants me to proofread their essay... I'LL DO IT. GIVE ME FOOD AND I'LL DO IT. And and and then we had troubles with the VLocks. They needed to be charged. "Where's the VLock charger?" "Umm with the rest of the gear??" "Is not there. Can you check downstairs?" "Okay" *goes downstairs* "hae guys do you know where a VLock charger is plz?" "One locked in Chris' office..." "okay thx guys ta" *goes upstairs* "locked in Chris' office" "oh. What should we do now?" "Idk" *sometime later* "oh look a VLock charger" so yeah we charged them yay. Holy shit man. Aman. Gullible as hell XD "Chris is in trouble, he broke a light" "*wide eyed* what light?" "The blonde over there" "What... *looks* it looks fine tho, what??!?" .... "Man you're so gullible!" "haha yeah...." "There's a freaking orange on the ceiling, mr gullible!" "ha.... *looks at ceiling* ahhh..." LOL. But man he can trick us just as well as the next one. We had a break at some point and he quietly goes up to Dan. "Dan, uh, Dan. We need to reshoot everything we shot today. Camera wasn't working" Oh my god Dan almost had a heart attack. Danny Boy! Doing so well, you're an inspiration to us all. GO TO SLEEP OKAY. I was on a coffee high for many hours today. I probably still am. I pretended to be a ghost at some point by hiding between the curtains and the mirrors in the drawing room XD Anne put a banana peel on my butt D: A cool thing that happened was me getting blinded by the Blonde as I lied on the set cave floor. Actor was away somewhere and they wanted to know where to stick the camera and the lights... So I filled in for him haha. I almost went to sleep. We wrapped at about 8 or so, and a few of us took all the gear downstairs while a few other people sorted out whatever the heck is going to happen with all that sand. After that everyone's ridiculously tired so there was me, Lana and Child thowing a lemonade bottle over and over at the bin from across the lounge trying to get it into the bin XD got there after about the 50th time. I had to put my cricket skills to good use. But Lana won, yay good for her. I am ramblinnnnnnng. I enjoy it.

Here's hoping tomorrow is going to be just as insane XD

Anyway. Have some photos -

Our lovely "slate"

I made a sandcastle in the sand looollll

Anne doesn't like her photo being taken

Virat was in briefly this morning to set up the lights and give us a few last minute pointers.

"Thai's WTF face" "Thai's FTW face again"

Can you tell I'm tired. I am very tired lolololol.

I'm not even going to check for typos.

*wahding* oh hi there.

OK FOR REALSY BACK

I forgot I had to post blogs for my course XD. tbh, for the past month and a bit I've not really been the happiest Kimberley around. Research class is harder than I thought. Third year project got full of drama at some point. My grandfather dying at the exact same time that I was supposed to go on internship really kind of messed things up, too. I'm truly sorry to Miriam and all them peeps. It sounds like it was a blast,  but I just couldn't think straight at the time and just wanted to be with my family.

Anyhoo.

What's been happening since you all last read my blog? Well then let me tell you, up until such a point where my thumbs start hurting,  as I am typing on the app instead of the browser this time (apologies for any typos by the way, I hate this keyboard) .....what papers do I take again??? Oh yeah.

Photography. We've been sorting out our end of semester project. At some point we gave a presentation to the class about what we are going to do. It was all very interesting to hear what my classmates are planning to do. Eventually we will be making photo books (I think) that will go on display (I think). Each one is our own with our own photos. My idea for my project is capturing the lostness and loneliness of toys and other childhood objects, that once belonged to children that have now grown up. All these things have a story, and still have a life, just because they're old and worn doesn't mean that they're gone. They're going to be around forever, locked away in some long forgotten memory, and some long forgotten place.

Research. Research. HAHAHAHA. Help.
Okay so like this is an insane paper. I'm not gonna truly understand this one until I finish it, I think. I have to make a thingy about the pacing in children's television,  that is my chosen topic. But GODDDDD so much reading >_< I'm reorganising my life so now this paper is my main priority this semester and  not the 3rd year project paper anymore. Otherwise I'll never do it. After waking up from unhappy Kimberley land last week I've gotten back on track and actually started to collect more data and have set out plans and schedules and everything for it. I has motivation where there was none before, yay.

Media Culture is semi fun. Some interesting things to be discussed in those classes. We all made stuff a while ago, by remixing different ideas into a thing,  if that makes sense.. like,  the musos made songs by taking real life songs and changed the genre if it to make it different.  Us filmies did a similar thing where we took a scene from a film and changed the genre to make it different. My idea was to take the shopkeep scene from Frozen and turn it into a soap opera, a western, and a horror.  That was ridiculously fun.

I'm yawning,  and I need zzz's. I think I covered the jist of what's gone on anyway. Peace out home skillet biscuits.

I'm back, hopefully

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