Musings of an Idiot

Meetings

Thats what the whole day has been...but it was fun all the way through.

The first meeting was the team meeting and the read through for Alan Brash's short film 'Love among Toys'..it is a really interesting story and it is funny..there are small nooks and cranies in the script where you can't help but chuckle to yourself. I will post up the pics of the team meeting later tomorrow morning as I locked my digital camera in Unit-6 and can't access it till tomorrow morning. This short film is gonna be really interesting. And the other interesting aspect was listening to Alan direct -he has things clear in his head and he knows what he wants out of everyone but at the same time he is really humble and polite. I am looking forward to this one. I will have to brush up quite a bit since i have not having done any serious acting in a year -the last one being a fun role of 'Black Bart' in a student 48 hour competition - where there was literally no acting at all- it was all fun.

Then was the school meeting with Paula, Darryn, Matt, Allie and Sandra - the meeting went well...the point of rewriting the unit standards for editing came up and i have another meeting with paula tomorrow for the same. Matt seemed a little stressed today for some strange reason - with the amount of work he does and the responsibilities he has - i am not at all surprised, if I were in his palce i would probably got a heart attack by now. Had to sort out backup editor for Lavinia's doco - which got sorted with help from Kim Oyston and an approval from David Blyth -who is directing that short film, now Dong Ding will be editing that project. At this stage looks like Triangle Show might not be going ahead this friday but it is still uncertain - will get to know for certain tomorrow morning. Touchdown got back and they said that they are looking to hire an offline editor later on but for now they have said no to both Annette and Russell - which is kind of a bummer but not really for there are more opportunities to come by.

The evening went in a couple of meetings -first was the meeting with Dan and team for his short film and it was great seeing Jonathon Moulton on board. I was being slack and did not type in a rough schedule as the locations weren't locked down but that obviously wasn't looked favorably upon. So i typed up the rough schedule while the team was still discussing the finer points of the shoot. Dan's short film is again gonna be an intense experience because it is a hard hitting and emotionally raw piece. The labour weekend is gonna be a long weekend.

The last meeting was with Delaney and it was great. She is really talented and it is great having her on board. At this point neither of us know what marketing strategy we are looking for promoting the film but then where there is a challenge there is a way. It will obviously have to be a combination of usual techniques mixed with new ones which i invent ourselves. I am looking forward to that process as well. And yeah...Delaney has been confirmed a place on next year's course at South Seas {Angela rang her up and told her so, though the official letter is yet to reach her}which is great because i think it will give direction to her talent in the film and tv industry. And from what I have seen on her portfolio - she is a really visual person.

Anyway - i think i am done for now. Will update more pics and stuff later.
ciao
amit

Labels: Acting

posted by Amit @ 8:38 PM