Well what a turn of events, not a great start to the week, I assure you that. Monday afternoon, an hour before knockoff time, I was told that this week will be my last week at work. Yep, being made redundant.(due to sale loss)
One week notice...what ever happened to two weeks?
Talk about a kick in the guts, after 3 and half years...the timing could not be any worse...but when is it ever a good time to loose a job? Yeah, never.
Work is scarce here in the Mount, and unless you have a trade or skills in the food industry your not guaranteed a look in.
It falls into that good ol saying "it's not what you know, It's who you know".
I've applied for a few jobs here and afar, hopefully something comes up soon.
Playing around with my new camera and I am beyond impressed. I'll be using this camera for more film making than Photography. Still, that being said I can't get over the quality of the images.
The shots of my mother in law and wife is the type of look that I am hoping for, for my films. I can't wait to play with this some more.
Can't beleive I just won my first bid on ebay, and it was a Canon 60D $590.00!
What a score! Just a quick post as I am about to head out and test this little baby out!
8 Months ago in a park, far far away. Well not really it was just cross the road from a mates place, any who, I should restart this.
For an age now I have been wanting to make movies, I use to back in the day with my best mate, I wouldn't call them movies, more skits and us being dickheads than anything else. But you know what? Boy, did we have fun. Some of the ideas we had were great! I remember a shot we did before the Matrix made it cool! Honest!
We didn't have any editing software back then or DSLR either, just a cheap camera. Our editing was done from VCR to VCR and some of it wasn't that bad...ish.
From the earlier days I've always had a camera near by, Just in case I get an idea or see something amazing happen. ( I live in Mount Gambier, and witnessing something amazing happen is like Hell freezing over. It'll never happen ) So if you want something to happen or change, you gotta do it yourself, right?
I've had this idea for years, "The Hit" and well...nothing! Haven't even started it yet! Time, money, having a baby and me being lazy, have prevented me. I have over the months been collecting items, props, making my own Stedi-cam and upgrading my editing software. I now can create, edit movies to my satisfaction. Well hopefully.
So 8 months ago now I got some mates from my martial arts school and got them to help me do a quick fight scene. I shouldn't say quick, filming went for over 2 hours and the end product isn't even 2 minutes long! I only have one camera, you guessed it, many close ups, long shots, I forget how many tapes I went through.. Yes Tapes, the good ol Canon HV40, Will be upgrading to a new camera hopefull in the new year. Anyways It was a grooling process, but my mates had a ball and didn't complain once...Well maybe when Anto head butted the tree, but it's all in the fun of filming!
The purpose of this scene was a test of how long it would take me to film, edit, choreograph I've never filmed a fight scene before and the process was great! A huge learning curve, It still needs a few tweaks but it was just a test and I'm happy with the outcome.
I have finished the script and now working on storyboards, I don't want to fly by the seat of my pants with the short, specially since I'll have dialogue and more than a few people helping me make it happen. i want to make it as best as I can, and if I think its any good I might put it in comps, who knows.
Hopefully shooting starts at the end of the year, when the weather is warmer. In saying that, it is Mount Gambier after all.
Below is the short fight scene test. Big thanks to Anto and Tez for helping out.
