Musings of an Idiot

Saturday

And the back is still paining...rang up a hospital which advertised that they deal with sports injuries and such -gave them a ring to hear that they don't have a physiotherapist and they are not upto handling such cases...thats the state of customer care in NZ. meaning - customer care is a shocker here...things never change and it still never fails to surprise me, even after 2 years here. NZ has a lot to learn about marketing and customer care.

The music video has been signed off and delivered...which is fantastic as it was our first paid gig. I have uploaded the music video and you can watch it HERE. It is a 20MB video, so will take time to load up. There is also a hi-rez 36MB version located here.

Today I bumped into Juliet - who did the course with me at South Seas and was one of my directors in the end of year projects. I had edited her doco 'An Asian in My Stable' {i divided into 2 parts and uploaded it onto my section and you can check out 'Part-1' and 'Part-2' by clicking on the links} and that doco always brings back fond memories as it was heaps of fun and Juliet did teach me the importance of giving an editor the creative freedom while editing. The doco was shot by Lance and it was just a beautiful doco to edit. She is currently working as production manager at 'Top of the Pops' and enjoying it.. It was definitely exciting seeing people from our year going places.

Mixed down both the audio commentaries with the movie sound - Benji's as well as the one which Lance and me recorded. I think it will be a good DVD..Benji's track rocks and it definitely gives insight into the editing side of things while the commentary track which Lance and me did was more a geek's point of view. The thing I found while listening to the track was that I tend to say 'actually' quite a bit...hope people don't get irritated if someone accidentally does switch on the commentary track. The NZ DVD rental release is definitely scheduled for October and i am excited. Matt will be helping out making the master DVD - which is cool because need to cram everything in into the DVD-5 video and space will be a big constraint.

I had to fire off a copy of the movie by fedex to Rio International Film Festival as they said they would be interested in having a look at 'Memories' for consideration. I don't know if I should expect anything from it because all the international festivals till now have given 'Memories' a pass, so just have to keep fingers crossed and see if they like it enough to screen it. The thing I am excited about though is Microcinema Fest which begins from August 8th. If you are living anywhere near Chicago - do drop into the festival to support grass roots film making.

Saw 'Blade: Trinity' yesterday and was thoroughly disappointed - it was bad. The website was fantastic and it was one of my favorite websites because it built up the characters really nicely for the movie. The movie itself comes off as a stupid exercise in blowing up vehicles and making money..the storyline was as thin as it could get.

I finished reading 'Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes' and it was fantastic...really good and i would say it is visual literature rather than being a comic. I have started reading the next TBP 'Sandman: The Doll's House' and it is Part-2 of a 10 part series. Neil Gaiman's world is fascinating. I would highly recommend anyone who is vaguely interested in reading.

And yeah, as a sign off note for today: if you have seen 'Memories', please do vote for it on imdb.com. The movie page is located HERE. You do need to be registered on imdb.com {which is free}. Most of the details about the movie are already up and the poster will be put up as soon as the american distributor finalizes it and announces the release date. But yeah - do vote for the movie if you get a chance.

Amit

posted by Amit @ 8:53 PM