Rolling

It was so many long weeks ago, but I’m trying my hardest to recall what happened in Rolling.

I remember enjoying it, but finding the characters a bit dull, the plot a bit predictable, the cinematography uninspired. That’d be according to my high standards of American Horror Story or Game of Thrones-style budget and effort. So, in terms of a short, university-based film, I liked it and thought it was very well done.

That said, I guess my main issues with it were plot-based – something I’ve often lamented about short films is their inability to provide real character development – which is in an entirely different league to budget, mostly. Anyway, that doesn’t mean it was a bad script; the dialogue was fantastic, and it was probably the best aspect of ‘Rolling’.

I seem to remember – and this might just be a fault in my memory – that the colour correction was pretty bad. I think it was too green, but that’d be because a lot of it was filmed in a fluorescent-lit supermarket.

On that note, the acquisition of a supermarket as a location for much of the film was fairly impressive. I wouldn’t want to have to organise that, but there didn’t seem to be a rushed sense to the scenes set there, they seemed relaxed.

Casting-wise, I thought that the main character was fantastic at comic-timing, but the main female role was forgettable. This may have been a writing problem, but to me the actress didn’t impress me.

Time

I have none.

This isn’t a case of time management problems, it’s a case of ‘I have priorities and Integrated Media isn’t really one of them. I have university all day Monday and Thursday, I have work on Wednesday and a meeting for my TV show that I’m producing that night, which also sometimes happens on Friday night. On Tuesday nights I work on In Pit Lane, on Thursday nights I work on 31 Questions. Tuesday day, Fridays and Saturdays I vary between working and not working, but when I’m not working I’m writing scripts, arranging meetings with location scouts, art department people, production managers and the like, or maybe I’m babysitting my niece and nephew, writing or helping to write a script or travelling to and from important places (you have no idea how much of my life is on public transport).

Seriously, I wanna do well, but my show, my family, my friends and yes, my couple of hours a week of freetime are way more important than any of this shit. We need freetime, and I’m gonna drop out before I let university take away every second of it.

One exception: Film/TV 1. It seems relevant, and it seems enjoyable and my group is awesome.