No India
It's been a long time coming but I still find it hard writing about India - I don't know why. Maybe it's because I don't want to offend anyone by writing my thoughts about my trip back home or maybe because words can't describe the experiences that I had in India - some of which have been life changing experiences for me. Life changing experiences don't have to be major, dramatic events but even small, relatively insignificant events can lead to a change of perception and world view and I think I experienced a few of those during this trip and I am really in no mood or of any particular inclination to share with the rest of the world. After much deliberation and procrastination about the whole thing I decided not to write about my Indian leg of the holiday. But needless to say I would like to thank everyone back home for making this trip wonderful - friends, acquaintances and especially my family. I will upload pics from India to the web sometime soon and then link it up.Things have been busy otherwise at work and I will be a happy man from next week once my boss comes back and I hand over his responsibilities back to him. I enjoy higher responsibilities and I think I did much better than last time dealing with stuff but it is draining when you are trying to do two jobs at the same time.
In the meantime I finally managed to make some critical decisions about the music video that I wanted to do for Sora Shima and we finally shot it. The first step for me was getting Benji involved and he came up with a cool concept and then I contacted Claire [friend and acting classmate] to help out by appearing in the music video and we shot it over 3 hour time frame for 2 days at different locations. It is all shot on Benji's digital camera and this will be an interesting experiment when we finally finish it. The shoot went really well and the photographs look amazing, so I am pretty confident that it will be a good music video. Here are some behind the scenes photos from the music video shoot.
I've managed to sneak in a couple of movies in all the hectic time I've been having and both of them turned out to be good: Slumdog Millionaire and Gran Torino. Slumdog Millionaire is beautifully shot and nicely edited but it misses a fair few emotional beats and thus for me was a good movie - not a great one. Gran Torino on the other hand was very captivating and draws you in slowly but surely and is funny, dramatic and emotional at the same time. I finished my week of free gym trial at Bodytech and planning on doing a week's free trial at Les Mills before deciding which one I want to join over the long term period. We have a house warming party at our house tomorrow night and it should be an interesting night - mainly because this is one party I can't avoid going to.
And that's about it from me for now.
Till later,
Amit
Labels: Filming, India, Movies, Music, New Zealand, Travel
posted by Amit @ 10:45 PM
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