I've just realised how long it is since I've posted here. It's really slack to leave it almost a month between posts and it's not as though nothing has happened, I'm just idle.
OK so what has happened. A couple weeks a go I was involved in the 48Hours film festival. This was my mate Adam's idea and is a competition to make a movie in 48 hours from scratch. It's actually a New Zealand competition but it was still a good idea. You are given a genre, prop to use, character name and trait and a line to include at the beginning of the competition at 3pm WA time and away you go. Ours was a real time movie which meant we had to make a 6 minute moive that actually lasted 6 minutes. Sounds easy I hear you say but it really isn't. We managed to write the script by about midnight and started filming at 7 am on Saturday morning. Luckily I know a few actors and they knew a few more actors and we got it cast and ready to go.
This was the first time I'd been involved in actually making a film and was amazed how many times each thing had to be done and how many different shots had to be thought of. Luckily we had Adam who knew what he was doing, the rest of us generally stood around and got in the way or tried to keep track of which take of which shot we were up to. The filming wrapped at about 6 pm and we went back to get the editing done. This is the exact moment the computers decided they would shit themselves and stop working. Cue a bit of panic. Luckily Andrew was around to get things going again. We all left at about 1 am but Adam was up all night (including another 3 hours tech meltdown) editing the thing together. You would have thought that between the 6 Macs available in the house at any one point we would have been ok but with that many bits of electronics something is bound to go wrong.
To cut a long story short (too late) we managed to get the thing finished and uploaded to You Tube as required with about 6 minutes to spare. Never has a upload progress bar taken so long or been so closely monitored. Sadly you cant see the finished product yet as it has to be judged and finalised in NZ. I hope we do OK, just have to wait and see. To be honest it was fun but I don't want to have to do it again in a hurry.
What else? Well the cat is slowly settling in, in between destroying my lampshades. A word of advise: IKEA paper lamps are not kitten proof. Luckily they are very cheap so it's not a total disaster but suffice to say it's been replaced with something a bit less papery and Loki tempting. He had to have his last immunisation the other week so it was back to the vet again. It was there that I realised how enormous he actually seems to be. There was a couple in the waiting room with their 5 month old kitten and it was about a third the size of my 6 month old kitten. Even the vet was a bit taken aback. If he keeps growing he'll be the size of a great dane. I'm also using and emptying the Dyson a lot more, who knew they dropped so much hair everywhere. Don't ever get a silver tabby either. You get black hair on your white clothes and white hair on your black clothes. Let's just say there are days where I look like a 'cat person' covered in fluff and scratch marks.
I went back to Kalgoorlie the other week too, it was a bit weird as I really felt no connection with the place at all this time. I caught up with a few friends but even most of them are either moving/moved/hoping to move to Perth. I think the next trip will be the last as they have finally managed to find someone to replace me. I have to go with him next time to orient him. This pissed me off a bit as no-one ever did that for me. So never again will I need to go to Kal unless I really want to, and I'm sure I will but it's finally the end of that chapter in my life. Bit weird really.
When I got back this time I was as sick as a dog with the 'flu. And it was real, not the man version. The dr. signed me off for three days but I'm so committed that I was back at work after two. What an idiot. It was that horrible achy, hot and cold sort of feeling. Worst thing was it started on the Saturday I got back from Kal and meant I had to go and vote on daylight saving (No by the way), go shopping for food and take the cat to the vet. It was probably all the running around that almost finished me off.
Anyway I'm all better now and deciding what to do this afternoon seeing as it's such a beautiful day after lots of terrible weather. Any suggestions?
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