To clarify, I forgot a payment for the webspace and the hosting server was getting an upgrade. Lo and behold, bad luck and all that, website was down for a bit longer than it should have. But I’m back now AND with a new password that wasn’t not sent to me, taunting me that website was on, but updatable.
While down, I’ve still been creating posts to blogger, but they just haven’t been going anywhere. So your not missing anything.
Plus it turn out that there seems to be quite the amount of readers of this blog now, which is cool, and from the webstats, this site is going to hit 1000 visitors really soon… awesomeness.
Started at 9, shooting a scene at the museum which was fun, although we went a little overtime, which would have been okay, but I had an appointment to run off to, which didn’t go overtime, but by the time I was done, I had to run off to the next location to set up for a bar/band scene, which looked great, but at this point, I was running on no food, heat exhaustion and a headache the size of a walnut… made of cyanide.
Managed to finish just at midnight, though we had to scrap a couple of shots planned for magic hour cause we didn’t want to lose the small amount of extras we had at the time. Why is it so hard to find extras sometimes? Ah well.
Also got to finally do a cameo in the film… playing a drunk patron, dragged out on his arse by security. Even got to fire off a string of profane one liners for the role. Described as Will Farrel and Kevin Smith gone wrong, I shot off lines along the lines of “aw… hairy sweaty balls on your chin” and “goddamn shit in your cereal”… awesome.
Also got some interesting good news regarding the film commission, though I probably can’t say much about it and I won’t. Though it does bear potentialness for awesomeness.
But by the end of the day, ie now, I’m feeling like crap and not really looking forward to tomorrow. So not feeling it this week I think.
Still not fully connected to blog yet, though website is back online, I can’t connect to it due to a password change malfunction and you probably won’t be reading this anytime until some time since posting like so many previous posts as well. But heres a funny music video classic none-the-less…
Still no website? Ah well… A good day, shot another interior scene and got to use more lights and gels. Pretty lights and gels. Rooms heat up really quickly under the lights we’re using, so once a take is done, its usually a mad scramble out of the room in an attempt to breathe some air thats not filled with hideous ammounts of sweat.
We then broke for a bit and took off to Cambridge to shoot a road scene. And I had quite a bit of fun on that one as you’ll see here.
Tomorrow we get a day off. It’ll be my birthday and I’ll be doing absolutely nothing! Awesome.
But shot a hospital corridor scene at… (drum roll)… the University of Waikato! Dressed up the English department to look like a hospital corridor with extras and pot plants. Hopefully it’ll look like a hospital corridor to others, to me, looking at the footage, it looks like the University of Waikato’s English department, but to the uneducated eye, it may look different.
But got two more dialogue heavy scenes off. Still about a weeks shoot left to go. Hooray and aww for the end.
Hopefully tomorrows blog will actually be on a website. Else this post is just going to nowhere… how strange would that be?
The internet hates me and I have a bad tendency of forgetting to pay my internet space bill. But filming chugs along as usual and I write this post knowing it wont be seen til at least another day or twos time.
It’s like I’m talking to the future!
Anyway, tonight the show reel is finally approved and posted to youtube. Viewable either here or just…
Very productive day today. Shot off about two hours of footage and got off five scenes in one day today. We even had a decent turn out of extras to fill out a classroom.
As intended in an earlier post, here are some more pretty stills.
And hopefully by tomorrow, the showreel will be approved for digital distribution. Hooray.
Quick post as computer decided to suddenly throw a hissy fit at me and totally freeze, thus losing all my blogger work and images I was screen grabbing for this post.
So instead, I’m going to go finally see the Prestige and be able to say “damn, that was a great film y’all!”
Oh, didn’t do a day 16 post yesterday as I simply came home, tried to do some fine cutting/onlining of the showreel, but instead collapsed in an exhausted heap and slept all night and morning. But we had a relatively short day today and boldy shot a one shot scene, which will hopefully go well when put together, but who knows. Anyway, the showreel is almost fully finished, with edits and colours awaiting full approval before I can upload it and/or mail off DVD copies to the lucky few of you.
Right, off to the movies I go. Been a long time since I’ve actually been to one.
Have just finished an all nighter, cutting together a showreel for our media day today. Currently being burnt to DVD, lets hope it doesn’t somehow magically catch on fire. Hopefully the showreel is decent enough, I’ve not had enough time to fine cut some of the edits and even less time to properly go through colour correction. Here’s hoping its not going to be too bad for the press.
Right. Several more copies to make, a bajillion coffees (and some) and I’m off to shoot.
Good day. Good confusing day for everyone involved. Can’t divulge details, but lets just say, it was the most amusingly confusing day for many today.
Also shot a scene set in a hospital. And I think there was a bit too much of an influence from watching Green Wing recently. I think there were more silly takes of this deranged Asian doctor running around in the background, doing silly dances and waving a shotgun around the place, than there were of actual proper takes. Hopefully, some good stuff for the bloopers.
Anyway, because we were so efficiently confusingly quick today. Tomorrow is a day off and rather than being another Dead Chris Day, it’s an Editing Chris Day! Because Monday, we’re scheduled to have a ‘media day’, so I’ve taken on the task of cutting the footage together into a showreel to show the press.
Can I do it in one day? With a hangover? Only time will tell…