Musings of an Idiot

Triplets

It has been a really busy and relaxing weekend. The first thing I would like to say is that you got to watch 'The Triplets of Belleville'. It is an awesome movie - it is extremely hard to describe in terms of normal emotions and storytelling aspects - all I can say is that it is magical. I can see why the Academy members gave 'Finding Nemo' the best animation award instead of to 'Triplets' - it is not political correct at all and thats a really good thing. It has a big heart and loads of charm. Do watch it if you can find it at a store near you.


Also watched a couple more movies - Dukes of Hazard and 40-year old virgin; as my flatmates got out those DVD's and were watching them. I did rather not talk about these 2 movies because they were basically commercial hollywood outputs - let's say they were good time-pass.

Yesterday evening - Tim, Greg and me went out for drinks - it was the first time in 2 and half years that all three of us actually went out together to a pub. It was also the first time that I have sat that long in a pub (we went at 7.30 and stayed on till 12.00, when the place closed for Easter Sunday) and it was a great eye-opener for me. It was a good evening and provided lots of ideas for shooting some party stuff. I think I am one of the lucky ones who doesn't get a hangover or something - haven't had one till now, so have been up and about doing stuff with the movie.


Just got back from meeting with Richard and we are close to locking down another two of the central cast. We are having a few technical hiccups on deciding on the camera. We want to shoot on the Panasonic HVX200 but the PAL version of the camera can not shoot 24 frames - which I find odd considering that it can shoot variable framerates and none of the major editing softwares support 720p editing - which is really sad because one can not shoot in the progressive mode (which gives it the film motion) and the only option is to shoot 1080i which would again bring back some of the digital video motion because of the interlaced fields. Hopefully there is some kind of an announcement at the upcoming NAB about the status of things on editing, otherwise we go back to the drawing board to look at the technical aspects of the movie - lots of grey areas right now.

Greg bought the 2-disc King Kong DVD set and it is great that they have put the post production diaries on the second disc (an area which most of the DVD's don't cover as part of their special features). I watched the featurettes, one of which was titled 'The Natural History of Skull Island' and it creates such an elaborate back story on what could have happened on the island for it to be in the shape it was for the actual time frame during the movie - fascinating stuff. I watched some of the post production diaries and might watch 'King Kong' later on tonight - flatties seem keen.

Bye for now,
Amit

Labels: New Zealand, Nowhere to Love

posted by Amit @ 7:22 PM