Blur
The past few days have been extremely hectic and one big blur. The internet is finally working and dealing with Telecom has been a breeze- right from getting a phone line to signing up for the internet connection - all of which took less than 15-20 minutes. Now we have a new landline number which is (+64) 9 4191158 [replace '+64' with '0' if calling from within NZ] but we don't have a phone yet - so can't recieve any calls but the broadband is up and running and it is fast.
Mesmerizing lights
Benji and me took a walk over to the Birkenhead ferry terminal on Wednesday night as it was a pleasent night and decided that there might be some good pics there. The lights reflecting on the water was mesmerizing and we did end up taking heaps of photos.
The Skytower & the harbour bridge
Last ferry drop off at night
Benji and me at the empty ferry terminal
On friday - I went to a producer's workshop conducted by NZFC (substituting for the script writer - Jordan, who is in Utah) along with Richard and it was a great experience. 5 feature film projects had been invited to spend 3 days time with Tom Strudwick - who is a script consultant in the UK (and he has worked with United Artists in their acquisition department and also worked with directors like Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch, Mike Leigh, Jim Jarmusch and Michael Winterbottom). The purpose was to analyse and develop each of the scripts further with the marketplace in mind. It was a good learning experience and the thing that was even better was to see other producers and writers who were at different stages with their scripts go through the same pains to keep the marketplace in mind while developing their movie further. I learnt heaps during that one day - not just about 'Nowhere' but about making movies with the aim of selling it to the audience. There were a few things which I didn't agree with completely but it was still an invaluable learning opportunity and it is always great to have an experienced player like Tom look at the script and share his feelings and thoughts about it and gentle give suggestions as to how we could possibly make it better.
Saturday - was again an action packed day. I was doing lighting on Angelique's short film and it was a fun experience. The first five minutes of the day were scary because the reality kicked in that I was actually doing lighting. But Drew is a fantastic DP, who instantly helped ease me into the role and Angelique's small personal pep talk while I was doing the first setup definitely helped a lot. I learnt heaps and it was a satisfying experience at the end of the day. Here is a photo of the action in progress
Today I think I will finally get around to cleaning up the house and man it is going to be a long day. Anyway I will leave things here for now.
Till later,
Amit
posted by Amit @ 7:11 AM
2 Comments:
hey Amit,
would love to hear more about the seminar if you have any notes you can share ... sounds like an interesting experience.
Doug
would love to share some of the stuff...maybe i will put up the main points up on the blog - i made notes but typical of me i misplaced them somewhere and can't find them. Thank God that I have a decent memory and can still remember most of the stuff that was said there.
it was an interesting experience for sure.
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