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.