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#48

October 14, 2013 — Leave a comment

This weekend I participated in the 48 hour film project. This was my first experience working in a team to create a short film. I was D.O.P and edited. Before this weekend I was a bit confused with what I wanted to do in the future. As much as I loved films I thought that maybe after working in large teams to create something might be stressful and not exactly what I would want to do for the rest of my life. After this weekend I’m sure. I loved it. I had so much fun. I can’t wait to work on something new. Hopefully this summer I get to help out on things.

 

About our short film, #SmashingBoxes, it’s a westical. Yes, a westical. It’s a hybrid: western and musical.

ELLA AND HOLOGRAMS

October 7, 2013 — 1 Comment

I just read Ella’s THINKING SPACE post and I totally agree. I too have experienced this limited feeling whilst using my laptop. It has only been recently (in the past year). I have final cut open. I have a folder of footage clips open. I have Facebook open. I have a youtube tutorial on how to do something on final cut open. Theres not enough room. I want to be able to read everything at once like when you sit on the floor and throw all your text books and papers everywhere and move things around as you please. This is what the future of laptops and computer screens need to be.

However a huge screen isn’t portable and that’s why we need holograms.

I feel like with a screen that allows me to have everything available at the one time, I’d be a lot more productive. As Ella says, there is more physical thinking space available. I know with brainstorming I always find assignments a lot easier. Using a big piece of paper to scribble ideas around allows for me to write more things down. Also seeing all that blank space motivates me to fill it. I love having one huge piece of paper to brainstorm on rather than a notebook where I am forced to write things down in a linear fashion, or once I fill up a page I need to start a new one. That is exactly the same as having tabs and minimised windows on a computer screen. The pages are there but you can’t see them all at once. You need to flip back to them to refer to previous ideas.

 

We need that Avatar hologram technology!

 

 

 

Hot Air

August 28, 2013 — Leave a comment

I have told you how… interesting my boss is. Today at work while I was minding my own business serving a customer I feel hot air on my neck. All of a sudden I hear “Tiana, are you Hebrew? Yes Tiana. You are, aren’t you?”

I turn around and my boss is just standing acting normal, pretending he didn’t just whisper in my ear. I turn back and hand the customer her items and he whispers “I want your blood!”. He then hissed and ran off.

 

This is my job.

I’m not even Hebrew. That isn’t even possible. Hebrew is not something you can be.

 

Bird

August 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

My dad runs a dog food wholesale company that has a warehouse across the road from a park in Brunswick. They stock everything from lamb throats to bulls testicles. Dogs love that shit.

Anyway the other day a panicked woman came from the park, cradling a bird in her hands that was on its last limbs. Frantically she demand we do something to save it. No one in the warehouse is trained in veterinary science. It is just a company that sells dog food to pet shops. We told her there was nothing we could do.

Then she demanded a hammer so she could put it out of it’s misery.

Now there is nothing wrong with putting a creature out of it’s misery but if you saw how abruptly her intentions changed from saving a dying bird to bashing its face in with a hammer, you would be just as shocked.

Nicole, the woman that opened the door for her stared at her in shock and said “You need to go away”.

 

By the way here is an image for one of the products. Dad makes me take photos of all the products for the website. It is a pigs trotter!

 

MOTIVATION

August 21, 2013 — Leave a comment

Since my previous realisation about how unproductive/unexperienced I truly am (click here to see the post) I have decided to enter a short film competition. Now I know this film will probably be one of the dullest pieces I ever make, which is ironic since the the theme is “Greece is light”, but it is experience nonetheless. The competition I am entering is a Greek-Australian film contest that looks for greek students, much like myself, to enter. The films are shown on Greek Television, across Europe, America and Australia. That is an indication to how complex and sophisticated Greek TV is. I had a look at previous year entries and the films never seem to be made by media students (there is only a limited amount of Greek-Australian Media students in Australia).

 

Even though the plan and idea for the film I am making (with another student from Melbourne Uni) is quite basic and nothing too “Spielberg”, I have found that I am actually pretty excited about it and I finally get to put all the techniques (like how to set up an interview and how to record sound clearly) to the test and get something done that I might actually be able to put on my resume.

 

Zorba The Greek, 1964.

Bezos Lightyear

August 15, 2013 — Leave a comment

Jeff Bezos is an Entrepreneur. He started Amazon.com in his basement. He recently bought The Washington Post for $250 Million… In cash. He started online customer reviews and email verification codes. He is pretty brilliant.

Jeff Bezos started Blue Origin in 2000, a company dedicated to providing space travel for humans at a affordable cost and increased reliability. Jeff Bezos has a fascination with space travel, as do I. I have been waiting for the day where humans can  holiday in space. And reading about Jeff’s company I feel like it might be available in my life time. His goal is to help enable “anybody to go to space”. He has visions of space hotels, amusement parks and colonies for 2 or 3 million people orbiting Earth.

You may say that he’s a dreamer, but he is not the only one.

I am sosososo excited by this. How amazing would it be to look out your hotel room window and see Earth? To look down upon this huge floating, rotating rock where billions of people conduct everyday lives. Like looking at a map but in real life. I can’t get my head around it but it would be fascinating. I really hope it happens. When I was in primary school I wanted to live on Mars. Although now that sounds scary and lonely.

Jeff Bezos’ ideas all sound very design-fictiony.