tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51952203203668205682011-10-08T04:55:31.624-07:00The Black Balloon DiaryBeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195220320366820568.post-49678077869128012892007-04-30T00:17:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:05:35.186-08:00The Black Balloon’s finale “Afloat!”Autistic children, lots of colours and a Home & Away star in a monkey costume – just another day on set! Well not just any other day, it was the filming of “The Black Balloon’s” finale “Afloat!”, which the musical performance within the film.In the film, Charlie (Luke Ford), is performing in a musical at his school called “Afloat”. (a musical of Noah’s Ark). Charlie and his friend Russell (FirassBeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195220320366820568.post-33199184621022559142007-04-26T21:00:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:05:35.311-08:00It's all about the food!As most of you know we have finished shooting a while ago, but I didn’t have a chance to update this Blog. I still have some entries that I have already written, but never published here. So I thought I put those once up over the next days and then tell you what’s going on in the post production. Sorry about that...hope you still enjoy reading this. So here today’s entry.Something I really have BeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195220320366820568.post-86033803496268547382007-03-23T02:35:00.000-07:002008-12-08T20:05:35.583-08:00Shooting in the suburbs of SydneyNext up, I want to tell you about shooting in the suburbs of Sydney. The main house, which is the Mollison’s house (Thomas’s family), is located in Holsworthy. The big advantage of this place is, that the house will be demolished after the shoot, so the crew can whatever the want to make the place more shooting friendly. Eg. putting holes (camera ports) in walls for better camera movements. So inBeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195220320366820568.post-50127929727991040602007-03-05T02:45:00.000-08:002008-12-08T20:05:35.912-08:00The first week of shooting The Black BalloonThe 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 weeksBeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195220320366820568.post-61965686255183147592007-02-16T21:27:00.000-08:002008-12-08T20:05:36.045-08:00First day and Gemma Ward on setFinally the day has come – the first day of the shoot on The Black Balloon. I obviously couldn’t sleep the night before and having breakfast wasn’t even an option for me, my tummy couldn’t cope with anything but water.When I arrived on set most of the crew was already there and everybody was really busy with setting up. Surprisingly Elissa and Denson (the DOP) were pretty relaxed, they were BeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195220320366820568.post-81106573854757832912007-02-13T02:29:00.000-08:002007-02-13T19:31:02.481-08:00My First Blog EntryHi there,This is now my first Blog entry. Because it's the first I’ll talk a bit about the film and the cast. At the end of each entry I will put a "Tech-Fact", something interesting I came across during the film shoot.Here the Synopsis of the film. I took the synopsis from Icon, the production company (don’t want to get in trouble for making up my own):When Thomas and his family move to a new BeeBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10977262344308809824noreply@blogger.com4