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A hopeful emerging filmmaker

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Sunday, September 26, 2010
I have been blogstipated as of late.

So it has been a more than hectic few weeks. I decided that it was time for some much needed cash. I got a job. Then I got another one. Oops.

The first one was at Subway. Crap pay but really friendly people. It was a short lived job. I was a sandwich artist for no more than a week and a half and that suited me just fine. Because, thanks to Alex from twitter I know have such a fun, hard job with the coolest group of people. Its a cafe/bar called Coco Cubano and every shift, I get to pick my mood and stick it on my shirt with Velcro. Yesterday I was ‘SUPER’ and ‘HOT’ … I thought they went well together. I have had 2 shifts, one short one of 5 hours and one LONG one of 11.5 hrs. And oddly enough, they both flew by. I don’t have time to even look at the clock most of the time. And there is no need to exercise anymore with this job.

I sure have met some interesting people in only 2 nights. One that stood out was a lovely young fairy named Steve. He has put me under his gay wing and by the end of the month I think I will know all the dance moves from Bad Romance.

School has been just as full on. We had a 24 hour film shoot that was definitely an experience.

My role was producer/continuity. And it taught me a LOT about film making in 24 hours than any theory lesson could teach. Of course, the film that we made turned out pretty HORRID… just putting that out there. The sound was terrible as we were doing it outside and the wind was not cooperating. We crossed every cinematic line known to man. The camera ran out of battery near towards the end so we spent an hour posing in front of Binu’s camera whilst waiting for it to load. Which was probably a good thing because we had some fun laughing over nothing… (pretty sure the sun was making us go loopy)

Even though the finished product turned out bad, it was great, because it taught me so much in preparing for a shoot… everything needs to be taken into account because there is SO much that can fuck up.

So I suppose you could say that at the moment, in life… things are crazy. A good kind of crazy. I feel like my days all mash into each other. I go to school and by the time I get home its my bedtime. On the weekends, I work all night and sleep all day. With the little spare time I have Im doing homework, working on my script that never seems to get longer or watching a movie (Oh that’s another thing… Im catching up on the classic movies because Im sick of the shocked expressions at school when I say I’v never seen Forrest Gump)

I say its ‘crazy’ in relation to last year, which was me sitting on my ass and doing absolutly jack shit. So you can imagine how different it is.

But all in all, its great. Im loving it. Sydney is perfect. The only thing missing is a few people whom I miss very very much. I think they should either all relocate here. Or someone better invent a transporter, soonish.


P.S. I did watch Forrest Gump. I was also shocked in myself it took me so long to see it. What a seriously great film. I cried just a little... or a lot. Whatever.

Just another day for Hay

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Thanks Buster

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
I think Im finally beginning to truly appreciate film. I watched a silent movie called 'The General' that was made in 1927. It ran for about 70 minutes. When I was told that I would be watching this movie and that it would be silent, my mind screamed in agony, I was certain I would end up on my phone tweeting non stop out of boredom or simply falling asleep. To my astonishment I didn't take my eyes off the screen. Not only did I enjoy watching how they did things back then but I actually really enjoyed the story. Once I was fully engrossed in the narrative I found myself not taking notice of technical things I felt I was supposed to be looking at. Instead, I watched with excitement, frustration and bewilderment. Totally captivated by the protagonists actions. Once it had finished I was stunned. 'I just enjoyed a silent film' was what went through my mind.
It was either a really really amazing silent film or I am turning a new leaf. Well I suppose it could be both. What Im getting at is... well I don't really know what Im getting at. Long story short, I couldnt believe I enjoyed the film and I actually contemplated watching it again.

The walls of Epiphany



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