Musings of an Idiot

Break

The past 3 days at school have been spent locked away in a room, doing paperwork for NZQA requirements for Diploma status to the course....not literally locked away - the tutors just took over the production office. It has been tiring, refreshing, frustrating, maddening and fun at the same time. Most of the stuff is done and I am sure that all the tutors will heave a big sigh of relief once the documentation is sent off.

Today, we had a guest lecture by Kim Waugh- the vice president of post production services at Warner Bros. The guest lecture was arraged for by Olivia - one of the editors this year. It was a really cool lecture and I think personally I got heaps more insight into the studio functioning as well as the post production challenges and workflow in a studio environment. Listening to Kim speak - it again reaffirmed my thoughts that I really do want to be making films all my life.

Just finished watching Shrek-2 and it was alright -it had its moments but it never reached the levels of 'Shrek'. The best part of Shrek-2 was 'Puss in Boots' voiced by Antonio Banderas. The music was not particularly inspiring and felt run of the mill and the story was alright - nothing special like the original.

I got to see the sample poster which Arkles Entertainment will be sending to video stores across the country and also the newly designed DVD slick and I must say that I like the poster - which promotes 2 independent kiwi films ['Futile Attraction' {a comedy} & 'Memories of Tomorrow' {a thriller} ] as both the movies will be released on the same day. While the DVD slick will need some more work to include the selection into new film festivals as well as the awards we won at MCF and some more quotes from the new reviews. But overall it is a unique design and will definitely catch people's eye. On an unrelated note - an italian distributor contacted me, evincing interest in picking up the right for 'Memories' for the italian market - I put them onto York Entertainment who are handling the international sales and distribution for the movie now. Let's hope that something positive shapes up on that front.

I think the next set of updates will not be till Monday or maybe Sunday evening if I get back early. I am going with Lance and a couple of his friends, down to Mount Ruapehu to go snowboarding/skiing, over the weekend. The catch is that I don't know either, so I guess it would be a good experience learning something new and basically getting out of Auckland and getting a complete system cleansing.

Adios for now, hopefully the next post will have some photos from the trip and obviously the experiences.

Amit

posted by Amit @ 11:09 PM