Film gear
March 27th 2003 -
Film gear
I bought some more film gear from the incomparable “Purple Haze Lighting” last night – a nice big silver/gold reflector (vastly superior to our homemade ones from the “Once Upon A Time” shoot – sorry guys), some spare bulbs, and a couple of sheets of polystyrene. All good. We’re going to be very, very ready when it comes to the 24 hour film shoot next Friday/Saturday.
24 Hour film shoot
Still ramping up for this. It looks like both Ryan and Ben will be able to come, as will Kate (for much of the time) and Jon (a bit of time) and Kate’s sister and her friend (for most of the time). Only needs a couple more people and we’ll be totally set.
Dunno how big the party will be on 7:30pm Saturday. I haven’t really gotten any invitations out yet. If you’re reading this, you’re invited…
Weekend
I didn’t end up getting very involved in the film shoot last weekend – I just dropped the lights off to the crew there, and that was it. It was, as I expected, a pretty enormous setup. They were at a rather wealthy house, and there were probably a dozen or so crew, and at least that many cast. Not one, but two makeup artists. A lighting technician who really, really knew what he was doing – I kinda wish I’d stayed behind just to learn from him.
They had hired additional equipment, including some HMI lights (which are very expensive) and a dolly, the actors were looking charismatic and professional… boy oh boy, I wish I’d stayed. But I didn’t – I’d promised to go to a film with Anna on Friday, and on Saturday morning, ennui suddenly overcame me.
Anyway, there’s this weekend’s filming as well, and despite all the things that are going on, I’m hoping I’ll be along to at least some of the filming there. We’ll see.
Dinner with Dad
Dad’s in town again, so we’re having dinner at a Thai restaurant in Newtown tonight, then he’s going away and doing some other things, and coming back again to stay for part of the weekend. All good. We’re going to have a BBQ on Saturday, followed by roleplaying, and on Sunday are heading over to Jon & Kate’s place to watch Prisoner videos, in light of the possible re-emergance of a “Prisoner” book line.
Electioneering
No surprises in the election results. I went up to Hornsby to hand out Democrats pamphlets for Kate (who was running as democrat candidate), which was a mildly entertaining couple of hours, but unfortunately made very little difference to the result – she came last in the group, with a mere 450 votes. Pretty much what we were expecting. Even the democrat party faithful abandoned Kate, and she had to ask friends to hand out pamphlets for them – I’m a Green voter, and so were Steven and Stephen, who also helped.
We sat around afterwards chatting, exhausted. Phillip Ruddock came around to Jon’s polling station, and Jon took the opportunity to say that he disagreed strongly with his policies, and regretted later not putting the boot in a little more, I think. At my polling station, there was a huge crowd of young liberals. They embodied the classic stereotypes – rich, yuppies, ignorant, loud, outstandingly obnoxious. They did more to harm the Liberal chances than any of the rest of us. Wasn’t enough, unfortunately – the Liberals still got the seat quite easily. Hornsby is a pretty safe Liberal seat.
Marrickville is a pretty safe Labor seat for that matter, but the Greens made huge territory there, getting about 20% of the primary vote. Cool!