Musings of an Idiot

Laser Tag & Weekend

Post survived the week and it was a thrill seeing the editors rising to the occassion and stepping up their game. The second term at school ends in a week - which will kind of give me breathing space to catch up on paperwork at school. Couple of editors will be getting some work experience at TVNZ and about four of them will get some work experience at SKY and one of them will be digitizing for a production company, two will be helping me out -a week each with the STAR courses during the holidays and another 5 of them will be editing 'Slip of the Tongue' {a 4-5 minute short film shot as an exercise for On Screen Acting students} during week-2 of the holidays. So it should be a busy break for the editors :-) ... At this point I am also talking to the producers of two feature films -one a proper budgeted film , the other a low budget digital feature - to see if the editors at school can cut the EPK {Electronic Press Kit: behind the scenes, doco featurettes} for them. Nothing is certain so I am not a liberty to divulge the details. But it is exciting and busy times at the school. The good thing is that most of the editors and some other students had a wind down session with a couple of games of Laser Tag today evening....yeah...i said that we would be unable to because of extra workload at school but the editors managed to finish off all that work on friday itself. The game was fun - not as much of an adrenalin rush as playing paintball.

Tomorrow is the semi-final of our netball game -which is a bonus game we got and I am not complaining at all. I am an eager beaver to get to the game. I think my finger might hold up for the game and so will my right elbow which I bumped somewhere so hard that it has swollen a tad {damn...how do i keep doing it? maybe it is the cold that numbs the mind and the body}..I will also be going to watch the wednesday midnight screening {technically-thursday morning} of 'Batman Begins' at the Mega Screen with one of my flat mates - we will be the first public audiences {not counting the press screenings that the studios have done already} to see the movie anywhere in the world {NZ is the GMT+12} and I am excited as much as a 4 year old kid would be in anticipation of a new toy.

Watched 'Shaolin Soccer' an earlier movie directed by Stephen Chow -the director of 'Kung Fu Hustle'- it was better than KFH but it was still over the top slapstick comedy - maybe it is a style of film making that worked for him and maybe thats the audience liking in china/hong kong... The other movie which I watched because it was playing on TV was 'Charlie's Angel : Full Throttle' and it was crap - i never actually watched it till this point and i hate saying this about any movie because work goes into everything but this one was bad..Stylistic but bad...

But anyway - i think I am rambling on unnecessarily so signing off for now.
Amit

posted by Amit @ 10:17 PM