Musings of an Idiot

Surprise

I was reading the complete festival update of Microcinema Festival on John Oak Dalton's blog {John OD is one of the founders of Microcinema Scene} when I ran across a surprise photograph.


What is so significant about it??? Well - if you look closely, one of the main photographs is a production still from our second day of production on 'Memories'. I am attaching the original pic down below so that you know I am not fibbing. This particular photograph is me visualizing something while explaining it to Richard -this was on our shoot in Onehunga late into the afternoon.



So yeah it means that we are famous in USA..heeheee..No, not really. I am just kidding. It is cool though that Microcinema Festival got some good coverage and that we were part of that as well.

Yesterday, got another pleasent surprise. We were scheduled onto another netball match and we won the game 26-10, which is a really exciting feeling. I can safely say that my shooting on Sunday was not a fluke and there is a definite improvement in my shooting standards {I missed some easy ones though}.

I finished the final checks on the DVD master and sent it over to the local distributor. So hopefully - it will pass the tech checks and get approved for duplication. At this stage it looks like both US distributor as well as NZ distributor are planning to release the DVD on the same date {by coincidence} in October. I can't wait to see what kind of slicks both of them come up with.

Watched 'Tears of the Sun' yesterday evening because that was the only thing watchable on TV and I don't know if I like it or not - there were some aspects which I really liked a lot - like not having a romantic connection between the leads, not trying to go for over the top hollywood action movie, some fantastic cinematography but the things which did not quite work for me were Monica Belluci as the doctor combined with the way the movie tends to become preachy at times. Overall - i would say it was a worthwhile watch but only if you can handle some brutality.

The other interesting thing on TV was the debate between Helen Clarke, NZ's current PM and Dr. Don Brash, the leader of National Party {the leading opposition party}. Politics is such a bitch. I didn't really enjoy the debate that much because it looked like a sham. Anyway I am not in a mood to talk about politics at all.

Ciao,
Amit

posted by Amit @ 5:55 PM