Musings of an Idiot

Pickups

Another few days disappeared down in time and it had been a productive weekend. We did the remaining pickup scenes for 'Five'. Saturday evening was guerrilla style - we shot at Andy's place with house lights and a table lamp + a side lamp providing for our lighting. And for a car pickup Benji came up with the idea of using the fluros on his emergency light to provide some uniform lighting to the scene. We gaffer taped the emergency light to the roof and it worked great.


Sunday has been awesome. We got all we needed for the pickups and it was a great experience. Bethells Sand dunes have a great energy about them and it is simply a beautiful place. The challenge for Sunday was to shoot the remaining 2 short scenes in the afternoon/evening - in such a way that it looks like night - basically shoot 'day for night' without any money or any lights. Again some creative thinking and research from Benji got us through the challenge and I liked what I saw being shot. A special mention goes out to Tahi - who spent close to an hour or so in the water - being 'drowned' - so much so that a little fish came to her wanting to befriend her - serious!!!








So photography on 'Five' is finally complete - no we need one more shot that we need to get tomorrow evening but it is just one shot. Now it is back to editing the movie. The website has run into some interesting problems with operating uniformly with different browsers - more specifically - it has problems functioning normally in Internet Explorer, so have to try and figure out a way to make it work.

On the other hand - I decided to try and cook some dosas for breakfast this morning - just the ready made powdered packet one since making the base from scratch is a bit more time consuming. After the first two dosas went haywire it almost felt like it was going to be like the 'kebabs' day but tried it a third time on Mary's insistence and it worked. The dosas were kind of small initially but they got better as they went. The good thing was they tasted like how they should and the sambar was good as well.

A couple of days ago - I saw this magical image but just couldn't stop to photograph it as I was driving in peak hour traffic into the city to get to work. It was the day after the massive rains that lashed Auckland and as I was getting onto the motorway the dark clouds were clearing up and you could see the silver lining in the clouds as the sun was revealing itself. As I drove round the bend - the image I saw was stunning: crystal clear blue water and into the distance was Auckland city covered in clouds with only the top of the tallest building visible. It felt like a vision from the future - a city set in the clouds. As I drove into the city the visual was even more amazing with the sun starting to reflect off the shiny windows of the sky scrapers as the cloud was starting to move away from the city. I wish I could have stopped somehow to take those photos but oh well!!! There is always a next time....

Anyway - a bit tired after the shoot, so I will go to bed.
Till later,
Amit

Labels: Filming, Five, Random

posted by Amit @ 10:13 PM