Sunday, February 01, 2009
moving on.
All righty, I apologise for not having updated this blog for a really long time, but the truth is that I am no longer really seeing the point of it. Most people I know who read my blog read my LiveJournal one, and I do spend a lot more time over at LiveJournal, so I'm thinking of making a move.
Monday, December 08, 2008
a well-deserved update.
All right, an update for the blog that (judging from the miserable CBox) no one reads!
I'm done, done, done with 'tech! The screening went off without a hitch, much to my relief, and since then DVD copies have been distributed to the cast and today I just sent Goofballs to the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival by a very expensive International Express Courier. It's the first film festival I've ever joined before, so fingers crossed!
Since the last entry, I have had the screening, moved out of Hamilton, soaked up the sun in Whangamata and moved into a new place in Wellington (which I'm loving). It would probably take too long to write all of it down, so I illustrate this with some images:
Beaching it up in Raglan.
In Whangamata with Luke, Sophie, Jono and Katie, where we stayed at Sophie's bach and soaked up the sun, getting very burnt.
A cheesy photo taken when Luke and I went sea kayaking into the Donut Island, which was really cool.
Inside the Donut Island, yay!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
the holiday mood.
I'm back from Opotiki, I've got a new haircut I really like, I've spent way too much money, the screening's tomorrow, I've finished all my 'tech work and I'm moving away on Sunday. I'm currently sitting in the lounge with Jono and Sophie, where we're supposed to be having a drinking party, just that we're the only people here for now, and I'm not really good at drinking games... or drinking. Still, I've had a shot of Apple Sours & Feijoa Vodka, and also half a glass of Sex On The Beach.
Things are going pretty good at the moment, despite my guilt at having no money. I'm going to have to spend more money on moving and new furniture in Wellington, but I'm trying not to think too hard about that. I'm just going to focus on Luke coming tomorrow, the screening, and then the fun of Wellington.
Just to make things a little more interesting, here's a little video that I made while I was in Opotiki, featuring most of the people I met at the backpackers. Most of them were German, but there were also Austrians, French and a Belgian (plus of course Luke the Brit), and they were all really cool. I love meeting cool new people.
I didn't really do anything that interesting in Opotiki, but just being a completely different place from 'tech and Hamilton was such a refreshing change. I really enjoyed being able to do absolutely nothing if that was my wish, and to just laze about and read my book and soak up the sun. My right shoulder and back was quite sunburned, but now it's kind of brown, which would be good if it wasn't just my right shoulder and my upper back. Now it's just uneven.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
2.35
Today I changed the aspect ratio of my film from 1.66:1 to 2.35:1. On the whole it looks better, I feel, but I have my fingers crossed that it won't interfere too much with the title sequence animation, because I don't really want to put extra work on Estelle, especially since I'm gunning to finish the film by Wednesday.
OPOTIKI ON THURSDAY, I CAN'T WAIT. I'm sure I've said before that Opotiki is a hole, and it kind of is, but at least it WON'T BE HAMILTON. Or this flat, where no one does dishes anymore, and if I don't stack/unload the dishwasher, nothing happens. Which is why I am going to be enjoying not being here for 5 days, then just come back for the screenings, and then move away, BWAHAHAHAHA.
After a bit of a breakdown I started plugging away at the sound design again and think it sounds a little bit better. Still got a bit more to go but with luck it will all be sorted by Tuesday. *fingers crossed*
I watched The Phantom of the Opera again tonight. Damn I love that film so much.
banging my head against a computer.
Sometimes I wonder, why oh why oh why did I decide to do film? Why pick this stressful, sleep-stealing, pressured, unstable career path? Why couldn't I just follow what everyone else suggested and done my A Levels and done a degree in English or teaching or, God forbid, LAW?
Yeah... no. I'll stick with film, I think.
BUT UGH I AM SO OVER THIS. I don't mind working hard on production management, filming, editing, colour-grading, etc. etc. but I'm not really enjoying sound design at the moment. Yesterday I slogged and slogged, bashing my head against ProTools, and all for what seemed like very little pay-off, because it still sounds less than inspiring. I might be going in today to add a few more sounds and atmos, and will probably be in again tomorrow desperately trying to make things work before the final mix on Tuesday morning. I have all my fingers crossed that the final mix will make everything sound heaps better, because I could really do with not having to stress out about this, and I am so worried the soundtrack is going to let the visuals down ARGHHHHH.
I want it to be Thursday so very very badly, just so I can run away to Opotiki and know my film is finally, finally, finally DONE DONE DONE, and for the first time in a long time I can actually do some proper relaxing.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
like a yo-yo.
And with this I am transformed into a yo-yo; constantly reeling between the frustrating lows of missing him and the amazing highs of feeling so lucky to have met him in the first place. It might be corny to say, but it was all pretty serendipitous; right place, right time, over and over again to bring us here. :)5 potatoes baked for 50 minutes really doesn't come out to that much, it seems, and so I am eating them all instead of having leftovers to keep for lunch tomorrow. And this after a little bit of leftover fusilli bolognese; I am officially Carb Central tonight, and will awake tomorrow a middle-aged, fat and frumpy Italian woman (no offence to Italian women, of course).
It was Election Day yesterday, and National won, making John Key the new Prime Minister of New Zealand (as of Christmas, anyway). I would like to take this moment to step out of my generally politically-apathetic self to say this: I AM NOT HAPPY. I would be even more not happy if/when National cuts down funding to the NZ Film Commission. I would be a little bit happy if they do live up to their promise and give us tax cuts, because I pay tax but am not eligible for any benefits, but on the whole even the tax cuts is only going to help big corporations, and we get to wave goodbye to government funding for heaps of things (including NZ Film Commission, probably). *disgruntled*
Kudos to the humourous 10,672 people who voted for The Bill and Ben Party, and I think it would be hilarious to find out what would happen if Bill and Ben actually won, but now I kind of wish those 10,672 people had voted Labour. But still...
I do find that a little bit amusing.
I hit my head really hard on the sharp end of the kitchen counter this afternoon, and since then have been a little bit dense. I am now unable to think about schedules or to-do lists without getting hideously confused, and everything needs to be written down before I can process and understand it. I hope it doesn't stay that way, because it's just going to get annoying.
Despite my no-spending policy, I bought myself 2 maxi dresses today. My general excuse is, "It is my birthday gift to myself." One's black and the other is off-white with red flower prints, and I can dress them up or down for different occasions (especially the black one) so I'm pretty pleased with myself. I have to get them shortened, though, but I can pick them up tomorrow, so that's good. I can't wait to start wearing them! (And that's the girly portion of this entry done.)
This weekend I have started listening to songs from the High School Musical franchise, despite myself. And I grudgingly admit that I find Can I Have This Dance rather nicely written with sweet lyrics.
It must be dementia.
