mmm... major project.

Oh dear, i'm getting a little lazy with this blogging stuff.

It's been that busy the last few weeks! ... Anyway, whats been going on?

We've pretty much cast the whole thing, found our location. Had a read through and rehearsed the film. Some how we've managed to get the Alea casino as a location. The place looks really impressive, it's a bit too fancy for what we had in mind. However it looks good and they are giving us much more creative direction and time than anywhere else. For the sake of altering the script slightly it's well worth it. It also has two other location we needed and were struggling to find, massive bonus!

The actors seems to be getting really into it and are involving themselves much more than I expected. Either they really like the script or haven't got anything better to do. As long has they are committed i'm not fussed. They all performed very well in the rehearsals which calmed my nerves.

There isn't much more pre-production now. We need to re-work the theme song (which i'm doing on sunday), we need to find the props (thats monday) and make a shots list and thats about it.

I'll try putting another video blog together. I have the footage, but need the time to edit it.

Yey!

VIDEO BLOG 2

OH! This is a little late ... again, but here it is anyhow.

Not as interesting this time, just a lot of me on the phone talking to the screen ... which you may or may not like.

Didn't film a lot of the good stuff, like looking at locations and whatnot. People tend to not like a camera in there face ... shame.



I've got some good footage of us doing auditions (which will be this weeks blog, so it'll be uploaded next week), not sure if the people that don't get the part will be too happy about being on it, but what they don't know won't hurt eh...

The project is going strong, were pretty much on schedule, just can't seem to cast KATH! It's a hard part to send a call out for, the breakdown is a horrible sweaty fat woman, I mean how do you make that sound nice ... Oh you can't ... And nobody will look at it and think "eyup i'm ideal for that part"

Beside's Kath the other problem is locations, if you've watched the Vid you'll know it looks like the subculture either don't want us doing it there or have forgot (i've emailed them again today), but its easy for a venue to say "yeah sure" but once you start talking about times and dates and how cast and crew they go a little quite. I think they really want to help out, but if anything goes wrong, like a crew member trips up over a wire and dies, the venue doesn't want to be responsible. Plus we aren't paying them, so we can't expect them to go out of there way for us. A simple yes or no would be nice though.

What else ...
I've been reading the Watchmen novel, it's quite amazing. Didn't think it would be as good as the hype, but it is ... wish i'd have read it before the movie chaos, then I could have been one of those moaners that say things like "its not as good as the book" and "it's too complacts to fit in just one movie" or "your only read the novel now because the films come out, jumping on the band wagon?"

Good times,

I've surprising not watched a great deal recently ... too busy reading! However, there has been the odd thing. I've discovered Flight of the Conchords, which is quite frankly one of the funniest things i've ever seen. Please, please get a copy and laugh hard. On the funny side i'm glad the Inbetweeners as started again, the first episode was really good, second one was alright too. I watched Waltz and Bashir ... Fantastic, a must see. There been some others too, but nothing worth rising my voice about.

Last bit,

This is what happens when I don't blog for a few days ... my thoughts mount up into one unfortunate read.

So, last bit (hopefully)

I'll probably right this into its own blog, but briefly ... My G.I JOE's came this week. The good man (Gio) that runs the G.I Joe festival sent me a small collection of 3.5 inch joe's to make a stop motion animation. Which cost him $54 to ship them to me!!!!!! that puts the pressure on to make something good.

I think i'm going to start a complete new blog for that and again keep a video diary. I'll keep the project posted on this one too.

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I wonder if anybody actually read this ... If you do send a comment, make me feel good!

Cheers.

VIDEO BLOG 1

This is the first Video blog for the major project.



Video blogging is a strange thing, it's hard to get the tempo right and decide what you thing think other people want to listen to. At first I set up a camera in front of me and I started yapping on about the project. I soon realised that I'd been chatting away for 12 minutes, I only wanted the blog to last 3!

I made the decision to only use the particle footage I filmed.

I've started work on week 2, we play around with the crane (jib) and I'm on the phone.