Musings of an Idiot

Weekend was a lazy one for the most part but had a lovely Sunday with Mary. We went to Muruwai beach and it turned out to be a beautiful day - not sunny and it didn't rain either. Oh and my usual way of making french toast received an upgrade with some fried banana and bacon and maple syrup (courtesy: Mary) ; and it was yummy. Muruwai beach was really busy for some reason - even though it was a Sunday. Oh well... here are some photos from the Muruwai trip -







I have just come back from the first class with Michael Saccente and the only way to describe it is that I am feeling very alive. It is a great bunch of people in the class - coming from different backgrounds and I am sure that it will turn out to be a really exciting 80 weeks. :-)

Earlier last week - I had a catch up meeting with Richard Collins over 'Nowhere' and trying to sort out how we move the project forward - including sorting out the rights to the script - which has become a little bit entangled because of the project has shaped up. Unkreative Artists started off the project and paid for the initial amount for the script - which meant that Unkreative Artists holds the rights. As the project gained a couple more producers and a new company - NTL Ltd., was formed for the purpose of the movie - the rights related to the script were never really sorted out and it was assumed that the rights would be transferred to NTL Ltd. Jordan - the script writer, luckily enough (for Unkreative Artists) did not sign the renegotiated contract because of delays on both sides in sorting out the renegotiated contract - which meant that I finally had the chance to sort this mess out, as Unkreative Artists is afterall a company. And to me it just didn't make sense that Unkreative Artists pays for a script which will be exploited by NTL Ltd. - so I got talking to Richard and we have already made progress over the course of action. Now it is just a matter of implementing the steps properly - in order to resolve the matter satisfactorily for the 3 parties involved in this. There were a couple of other matters and they too need sorting out. Once all those things are sorted then we will take the script back to the treatment stage and start working on it again. The other thing that I am going to do is take down the 'Nowhere to Love' website till the project regains momentum and gets back on its feet again - and then NTL Ltd. can pay for the website and design.

In the meantime I have started designing the website for 'Five' and I have finally settled on a design which I like - so now it is a matter of finishing it off and uploading it. And then there is the upcoming shoot this weekend - where we will be shooting the opening scene and a couple of pickup scenes to tie things up with the movie. It looks like the score for the movie will be delayed a bit but hopefully we will still hit the deadline for the Auckland international film festival.

On the movie front - managed to watch 'The White Masai' - which is very nicely done and is mesmerizing and beautiful; 'Hot Fuzz' - a movie which has you chuckling for its entire running length but still you need to be an action movie aficionado to laugh out loud. On the documentary front I watched 'Scorsese on Scorsese' which was enormously entertaining - the best bit was the American express credit card advertisement featuring Martin Scorsese. Check it out



The other documentary I was looking forward to was 'Behind the Scenes' of 'Children of Men' - I really wanted to know how they managed to pull off some of the incredible sequences. I was a bit disappointed that they still did not touch on how they managed to stage the single shot war sequence towards the end of the movie. The interesting bit was seeing how they managed to pull off the opening blast in the movie and also the car chase sequence where the camera is always inside the car following action inside and outside the car.