It started a long time ago – with a heartbreak. It blurs… I once saw Battleship Potemkin, because of a girl. Everything I know now, I know because of her. Kindof. It blurs…
It’s 2010 now. This was the year I planned to go to Film School in Sydney. I fell down a flight of stairs having taken 4 Es on a boat – and the next day I had an epiphany in the bus going past Sydney University in the midst of a post-drug existential crisis. I would go to Film School.
I didn’t go to Film School.
Back in New Zealand – my home town – Whanganui (a quiet little town on a river)… and suddenly everything came together (cast, story, setting, technology) to actually cut out the middle-tutor and shoot something myself. If I do go to film school it will be after already having made a feature-length film and I’ll be able to swagger about dressed like a peacock, shooting my gob off etc. It’ll be fucking great.
First though, I have to learn how to do… everything.
This site will be a blow by blow journal of what actually happens – a feature length film by someone who has never picked up a camera before.
And paranoid, histrionic rantings about culture in general.
But not today. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
Dropping a line to recommend you pick up Blender for post work– Blender’s a half-decade slog to learn the CG robots you get in Brazilian films that go global-viral but the compositer and post work engine’s not near as long a climb and has chroma keying, backdrop work, lens effects, color adjust, and very most important is an open source tool, which always does more damage to Adobe than pirating, an important plus.
Love the Genomicon blog– basically all the stuff I tend to think but with more punch than I can generally muster.