It's March now, a full year since I started with this blog. Over the year I've finished my course (graduate hopefully next month), lived and immersed myself in Auckland, Studied Jeet Kune Do and nunchuku, helped the wife move up here and settle down, filmed numerous shortfilms meeting new up and coming actors/actresses, and did some professional work in the film industry as an extra meeting local NZ film celebrities as well as getting work on emperor and meeting Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones lol! Anyway, the journey doesn't end here, life goes on! so it's time to move out of our student city apartment into the suburbs, get a real job to save for a budget and equipment and at night start working on a festival feature to try get my name/brand out there....but let's not get ahead of ourselves, let me share with you the lowdown this week.
Killer Elite!!
Finally saw it on the last day of the showing at cinemas, fantastic!!! Only a couple people in cinema so could enjoy and immerse myself in it :) Clive owen and Jason's chemistry was awesome! Dominic Purcell nailed his aussie character and the movies pacing of twists and turns was great, best action movie I seen all year, adrenaline racing at some points during the fight/chase scenes and surprise kills, also some great one liners, can't wait to watch 10/10 film again on DVD :) Hope to be like Statham one day, I've enjoyed all of his films so far :) Clive was good in this as usual, want to watch shoot em up again now :)
Finally saw it on the last day of the showing at cinemas, fantastic!!! Only a couple people in cinema so could enjoy and immerse myself in it :) Clive owen and Jason's chemistry was awesome! Dominic Purcell nailed his aussie character and the movies pacing of twists and turns was great, best action movie I seen all year, adrenaline racing at some points during the fight/chase scenes and surprise kills, also some great one liners, can't wait to watch 10/10 film again on DVD :) Hope to be like Statham one day, I've enjoyed all of his films so far :) Clive was good in this as usual, want to watch shoot em up again now :)
The Lighter.
Below are a couple screenshots from Nazim's short film 'The Lighter' which I star in, I look forward to seeing the finished project soon, he's handed it in and I hope to hand in my own project tomorrow, as you can see below night lighting is always so cool so hoping to film my next short flick at night :)
Timefish.
In regards to Timefish, what a wonderful (sic) week we have had! I cut, zoomed in and out, deleting, ctrl z'd, pasted special sound files and exported exported and exported again. No Final cut, vegas, avid, premier, after effects or anything with more than one audio channel, no budget, an desperate as I was, I couldn't find a crack that worked either. Time was running out so the whole project had to be edited in windows movie maker and layered in something called power director, but it's finished, it's finished! Thank god, Timefish was and is literally, the project that never ends.
I had to score it with proper music from Hanna, Legend of the fist etc when I had originally planned to compose it myself. But whatevs, Next project, I'll do it and enter into festivals. I'll share this with you and the world very soon, maybe next week sometime, ill take ages to upload with this snail interwebs we got here. Anyway, here's the Cover, cool and crude (rushed the masking cos due next day, however thanks to macs and PC hatecrimes I'm not handing in the finished DVD til tomorrow...)
I had to score it with proper music from Hanna, Legend of the fist etc when I had originally planned to compose it myself. But whatevs, Next project, I'll do it and enter into festivals. I'll share this with you and the world very soon, maybe next week sometime, ill take ages to upload with this snail interwebs we got here. Anyway, here's the Cover, cool and crude (rushed the masking cos due next day, however thanks to macs and PC hatecrimes I'm not handing in the finished DVD til tomorrow...)
Emperor
Filmed inside of a set aeroplane this week. and got to sit opposite Matthew fox and see Tommy Lee Jones do his thing, very intense professional man, great to see him work ;) During off time us extras sat in the studio next door and talked about global warming, politics, film industry, girls and relationships, etc, fun and this really is some of the highlights of working as an extra is meeting with people you normally wouldn't and chilling out for a couple hours.
Then when we got on set for shooting there were so many plane jokes by the crew when they went down the isle prepping for the next shot, eg, chiken or fish? chicken or fish? and, water? and don't forget your seatbelts etc, that and the hundred schwarzeneggar one liners everyone was doing during breaks between shooting. especially when the 2 merged and a guy would ask ,"chicken or fish?" for the hundreth time and somebody would chime in in an arnie voice, "I don't eat meat, where's the kosher meal?" "sorry, no kosher" "oh fuck. (turns to us) get to the chopper" lol. fun day.
Then when we got on set for shooting there were so many plane jokes by the crew when they went down the isle prepping for the next shot, eg, chiken or fish? chicken or fish? and, water? and don't forget your seatbelts etc, that and the hundred schwarzeneggar one liners everyone was doing during breaks between shooting. especially when the 2 merged and a guy would ask ,"chicken or fish?" for the hundreth time and somebody would chime in in an arnie voice, "I don't eat meat, where's the kosher meal?" "sorry, no kosher" "oh fuck. (turns to us) get to the chopper" lol. fun day.
Life..
well now (as of 10 minutes ago) The DVD is burned and I can hand it in tomorrow, I've got to get a nice 9-5 job so I can bring home the bacon while I chase my film aspirations. I talked to WINZ the other day as my course is finished so no more student allowance, they said you have to attend a seminar to go on the benefit while seeking work, one of the first thing she said when we sat down was 'congratulations, you are now employed by the New Zealand government.' my little boy dreams of being spy suddenly lit up, it was a funny moment. haha.
Anyways, aim to get a job before the end of the month anyway cos that's when emperor finishes and I don't have to commit to anything. I'm quietly confident I can get something, my history is pretty diverse. Videoshop retail work, Karate salesman, Storeman, whats next for Matt? we'll find out soon :)
Anyways, aim to get a job before the end of the month anyway cos that's when emperor finishes and I don't have to commit to anything. I'm quietly confident I can get something, my history is pretty diverse. Videoshop retail work, Karate salesman, Storeman, whats next for Matt? we'll find out soon :)
P.S saw Safe house last night, very cool movie, ryan vs denzel fight was the best fight scene in that movie I think. Very cool :)
This week I can get some rest finally :)
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