The first week is over and I have to say I learnt more in that one week, than I’ve learnt during the last 1½ years at film school. Everybody is just so onto it. There is such a difference between student filmmaking and real filmmaking.
Sometimes it’s a bit scary, I’m quite insecure about a lot of things, well I still am, but it’s getting better. There’s a lot of pressure because we’ve just 6 weeks to shoot - there’s so much to accompolish means there isn’t enough time for stuff ups. This keeps me on my toes.
There are so many highlights in this first week. A great scene was when Gemma and Rhys were in track suits and had to perform a rescue drill in the pool. Rhys is actually a good swimmer but in the film his character can’t swim. It has been hilarious watching him perform what has been called the ‘spastic dive’. Gemma was telling us she tried to teach someone to swim but gave up in frustration! The pool scenes were eye-candy for us girls - the boys had get around in their Speedo’s…do I have to say more?!? The photo below shows some of the guys: Nathin Butler (Chris), Aaron Glenane (Bucko) and Ryan Clark (Dean).
Sometimes it’s a bit scary, I’m quite insecure about a lot of things, well I still am, but it’s getting better. There’s a lot of pressure because we’ve just 6 weeks to shoot - there’s so much to accompolish means there isn’t enough time for stuff ups. This keeps me on my toes.
There are so many highlights in this first week. A great scene was when Gemma and Rhys were in track suits and had to perform a rescue drill in the pool. Rhys is actually a good swimmer but in the film his character can’t swim. It has been hilarious watching him perform what has been called the ‘spastic dive’. Gemma was telling us she tried to teach someone to swim but gave up in frustration! The pool scenes were eye-candy for us girls - the boys had get around in their Speedo’s…do I have to say more?!? The photo below shows some of the guys: Nathin Butler (Chris), Aaron Glenane (Bucko) and Ryan Clark (Dean).
Enough of that, back to the serious stuff. There was one very important scene shot on the pool – Thomas (Rhys) and Jackie (Gemma) almost kiss for the first time. It’s really beautiful shot with the sun shining behind Jackie, through her hair and a mixture of innocence and cheekiness. Well Elissa, the director, would call it hotness.
Today’s Tech-Fact is about ‘rushes’ - the footage shot but not yet assembled to a complete scene. (in Europe the call them Dailies). Everyday after the shoot Elissa, Denson (the DOP) and the producer meet with the editor Veronika Jenet (she was nominated for an oscar for the awesome film “The Piano”) to watch the material shot the day before. The pictures and the sound are recorded separately so the editing department need to sync them together.
That’s it for today. Next time more about shooting in the suburbs of Sydney.
Cheers
BeeBee
Today’s Tech-Fact is about ‘rushes’ - the footage shot but not yet assembled to a complete scene. (in Europe the call them Dailies). Everyday after the shoot Elissa, Denson (the DOP) and the producer meet with the editor Veronika Jenet (she was nominated for an oscar for the awesome film “The Piano”) to watch the material shot the day before. The pictures and the sound are recorded separately so the editing department need to sync them together.
That’s it for today. Next time more about shooting in the suburbs of Sydney.
Cheers
BeeBee
8 comments:
sounds like you are having any amazing time. :)
Do you know if the actor Firass Dirani has a big part in this film?
Firass plays Russel, Charlie's best friend. Russel is a great charactor and Firass does a great job bringing this character to life. We were loosing it a couple of times when watching a scene with Firass/Russel. It's really funny.
would you be willing to email me? today4u@earthlink.net. I'd like to ask you something, thank you. :)
Sounds like a really great experience!
I'd love to be in the same room as Rhys :P lol
And thanks for the technical facts. Very interesting...
Just wondering, how exactly did you get the job? Or even any jobs like this....i'm told its all about who you know...
Yeah, it really is a great experience! I love it!
Good that you like the technical facts. I thought I should do that, as I'm a film student. Hope they aren't too confusing.
It's a bit of a long story how I got the job. The short version is, that the head of our film school knows Elissa (the director) and some of us students got a job on the film. That's the really short version.
Hi. This is to BeeBee. By any chance is there a way I could email you?
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