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. :)