Musings of an Idiot

Unimaginative

The last 3 days have been a complete blur - I have been intending to write the blog but just couldn't. My brain is a bit fuzzy because of the flu and the events might get muddled up in terms of days.

Day before yesterday evening, went to Devonport and were driving around when we came across 'Art by the Sea', the art gallery which gave us permission to film one of the scenes there, so thought I would pop in and say hi to them and introduce myself, since it is always good if people can put a face to your name. Met Mike Geers, the gallery owner and he was really cool, had a nice chat with him and I must say it is a fantastic gallery. We will probably shoot one scene there.

Took a couple of snaps at the Devonport sea side with Benji. It was really damn windy but still a magical evening.


View of Auckland Downtown from Devonport


Benji at the edge of the walkway


me bracing the wind while admiring the view.

Yesterday went into being the backup camera operator on Triangle Studio Show. One of the guys who was scheduled to camera operate had to pull out at the last minute because of a personal emergency and since I could not get anyone to fill up the spot in 30 minutes time, I decided that I would do it. It was fun.

The day before, David Coddington asked me if I could help out with On Screen Acting course auditions and that was fun as well. It took nearly half the day but had fun doing the standup for people applying for the course.

Today, helped Benji move across to the international flat. Gerben has been kind to allow Benji to stay there till the next batch of international students come in. I think that will help in the fine cut process because the school is hardly 5 minutes walk from there. The fine cut is coming along nicely and am excited about it. We also had a post production meeting and Jamie and Matt eased off the doubts I had regarding special effects and onlining. It is gonna be heaps of fun when it comes to that stage.

Yesterday watched 'The Graduate' and it was really cool - it was definitey ahead of its time and they tried some really cool stuff and Dustin hoffman was fantastic. Later on in the evening watched 'Salvador'

It was strange but really intricate -the production on that one must have been really hard but it was an Oliver Stone movie so that kind of meticulousness is to be expected. The editing was fantastic and the ending was kind of abrupt but otherwise definitely worth a look.

Anyway am off for now. Will catch ya later.
Amit

posted by Amit @ 8:36 PM