Placed · Tuesday April 18, 2006
I’m sitting on the polished wood that is the floor of my room. My unportable laptop is sitting on a stolen milkcrate, and its screen needs cleaning though I don’t know how.
I’m loving my new house, and new housemates. They’re quirky. I’ve been doing some filming of a production the school of music was putting on just before easter – Pergolesi (18th c.) dramatised and costumed and lighted up. I filmed a couple of rehearsals then edited bits of that together into a 10min film (in one day!) to be projected onto a screen in the foyer before (and as it ended up, after as well) the performances, of which there were two. One of my housemates was playing in the band, and after the dinner after the show we ended up having an impromtu after party. It was great, and ours is a good house for that kind of thing. I ushered the last person out at around 4am – a proper party in my book.
I filmed the first show, and only a bit of second because I ran out of time – and therefore also of tape. It was a good show, especially the Angel (acrobat lady) coming down from the Hall’s ceiling, and I’d like to edit the stuff together a little and put it on a DVD, but I’ll probably only try to make time for that if the people who asked for it still want it. ‘They’, last minute style, got in someone with a professional camera to film the shows, so if that becomes available, what I’m doing is rendered rather superfluous.
Have been shopping around for a MiniDV Cam, (the family have offered to put money towards one / buy one as a 21st present, hooray) but I’m just getting more and more confused. There’s a big gap in price between a basic camera and the next level up in picture quality. I don’t want still-photo features and silly gimicks. I thought I’d like at least a 20x optical zoom (the higher price and picture quality cameras only have about 12x). After using the uni handycam for this project though, I’ve realised how bad the raw picture is – so much noise! But if I’m heading towards doing a lot of post-production (animation) work then will that matter? Etc etc.
..Enough about film.
Easter has been pretty quiet itself. Was in much need of break after the week before, and just generally the busy-ness before that. I’m on study break this week, though I’m afraid it’s going to go by rather quicky – I even had a dream last night to the effect that this break was already over – and that I hadn’t done the things I needed to do (which included giving a form to the government in order to get money to pay for food and shelter). Not fun!
Yesterday afternoon watched a bunch of movies at a friends place: “Millions” (godd fun, good soundtrack and very nice use of post-prod techniques), the new “King Kong” (long, badness), “Immortal” (weird, some humour, lots of cgi, a russian hero in New York, sci-fi & fantasy).
I’m also slowly working my way through the movies on our home network – one of my housemates has digitised most of his considerable dvd collection. So I watched “This Is Spinal Tap” recently, finally. Classic. I want to see it again.
Fans of Black Books ought to check out the scottish film “Wilber Wants To Kill Himself”. I’m not saying it’s the same thing, but there’s this ‘Bernard’ moment that’s just perfect. The movie is about 2 brothers who own a 2nd hand bookstore. It’s oddly paced, and goes a little strange perhaps, but has some great characters and is worth the time.
I’ve written more about film. Oops.
We have broadband too.
I might not being going over east this winter. Hopefully I’ll have a job then and be working and such.
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