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[Oct. 6th, 2007|03:23 pm] |
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| | Bridie O'Brien | ] |
I have a job! |
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| Exciting News :-) |
[Apr. 7th, 2007|05:56 pm] |
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| | "Taste You" - Melissa Auf Der Maur | ] |
After getting the proposal, rundown and demo done in a ridiculously short amount of time in order to be eligible for block 2 (despite not finishing our Syn radio course until the week after it starts) Laura and I had a meeting with the programming team at Syn and they were really happy with our paperwork and concepts, and said we could totally have a two-hour show in the next block, YAY!
I've always thought I have a face for radio and a voice for silent film, but whatever at least we can play some cool music by... yep, ONLY female or female-fronted bands and artists.
So if you have any recommendations, I've already raided my sister's music collection and found quite a few gems, but we've got 13 weeks to fill and the more variety the better, especially seeing I'm really enjoying myself looking for music to play. It's quite fun. But yeah, recommend stuff. Artists, or just songs, whatever its all good.
Plus tune in Wednesday afternoons and request stuff! Syn 90.7, I'll confirm the time soon, but will most likely be 4-6pm :-) |
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| My DVD/Video Collection |
[Jan. 6th, 2007|10:26 pm] |
When the hell am I going to get time to watch all of these anyway?
TV
“Alias” Seasons 1-4
“Arrested Development” Seasons 1-2
“Dark Angel” Seasons 1-2
“Dead Like Me” Season 1
“Firefly” Complete Series
“House” Season 1
“Kingdom Hospital” Complete Series
“Press Gang” Series 1-5
“Roswell” Seasons 1-3
“Scrubs” Seasons 1-3
“Six Feet Under” Seasons 1-5
“That 70’s Show” Season 1
“The West Wing” Seasons 1-5
“The X-Files” Seasons 6-7
FILMS
10 Things I Hate About You
American Beauty
American Pie: The Wedding
American plendor
Annie Hall
A Very Long Engagement
Aviator, The
Babe
Bandits
Being John Malkovich
Birthday Girl
Brokedown Palace
Butterfly Effect, The
Can’t Hardly Wait
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie’s Angels
Chicago
Crash
Crazy/Beautiful
Crow, The
Day After Tomorrow, The
Desperado
Detroit Rock City
Dig!
Dogville
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Ed Wood
El Mariachi
Eternal Sunshine of the SPotless Mind
Fight Club
Final Destination
Finding Nemo
Finding Neverland
Forrest Gump
Frida
Garden State
Girl, Interrupted
Go!
Good Will Hunting
Hairy Bird, The
Hours, The
Igby Goes Down
In America
Interview With The Vampire
Jarhead
Jawbreaker
Kansas City
Kill Bill Vol 1
Kill Bill Vol 2
Loser
Lost in Translation
Magnolia
Maria Full of Grace
Matchstick Men
Mermaids
Million Dollar Baby
My Girl
My Girl 2
Mona Lisa Smile
Moulin Rouge
Napoleon Dynamite
Ned Kelly
Notebook, The
Now and Then
Nurse Betty
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Directors Cut
Pleasantville
Primary Colours
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pulp Fiction
Romeo + Juliet
Shaun of the Dead
Save the Last Dance
Scream
Sea Inside, The
Secretary
Serenity
Shadow of a Doubt
Shine
Sin City
Sin City: Special Edition
Singin’ In The Rain
Sixth Sense, The
Steel Magnolias
Strictly Ballroom
Tank Girl
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Thelma and Louise
Third Man, The
Three Kings
Two Hands
Thumbsucker
Virgin Suicides, The
Walk The Line
Wedding Singer, The
Wonder Boys |
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| My Brilliant Career |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|02:04 pm] |
Careers I used to aspire to...
Private Detective - don't know why I'm not a detective, I'd probably be good at it...
Computer Hacker - not so much a career as a disruption...
Spy - lack of co-ordination... I'd always trip over something and destroy the sense of stealth...
Lawyer - I still might become a lawyer yet!
Psychologist - Couldn't be bothered doing six years of study.
Actress - Realised I'm just not very good at it.
Musician - It might happen! Not to make a living from it though...
Chef - Just kidding!
Journalist - I haven't written it off yet...
Author - I continually suffer from writer's block when it comes to the creative stuff, so perhaps not.
Artist - Unfortunately I suck.
And where am I heading? I don't really know. I'd love to do the Aaron Sorkin or JJ Abrams or Joss Whedon thing, but that doesn't seem to work in Australia anyway... My Mum expects me to move to Vancouver... maybe I will! |
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| Back the hell up. |
[Oct. 7th, 2006|12:12 pm] |
Ok so this is what I can't put on my 'educational' blog.
The back-focus was out.
I was horrendously disappointed with the footage because it looks like utter crap. The actors were great. The technical work was not. Actually that's not true, the sound was fine, and considering there was a nasty amount of wind to contend with, that's a small miracle in itself. And the scene where the gate gets kicked down looked fine.
Then later I found out that apparently the techs weren't even supposed to tell us that the back-focus was out, because it was out by such a tiny margin that really, the blame lies with the DOP. That would explain why it's only the interior scenes that are fucked.
So what is the game plan then.
I feel incredibly uncomfortable with telling someone that we don't want them to operate the camera on the re-shoot. Even though the other two members of the group have said they don't want the same camera op, and upon asking our supervisor for advice, we were met with a 'no way is she doing it again' answer. So that leaves me being the only one wishfully thinking that somehow we can teach a person how to use a camera properly in three days. Especially when deep down I know it had nothing to do with skill, and everything to do with attitude. Ha. Okay, so when I put it like that, seems fair enough. In all honesty, I'm beginning to think that a certain someone mistook the zoom wheel for the focus wheel and was too proud and egotistic to admit that she'd forgotten which was which and had just hoped for the best.
Not. Happy.
The only thing I can do is say that, thanks to someone screwing it up so badly, now I have a chance to fix those things that were my fault, like not taking more control over the framing. Ok, so what, I had to change the blocking and that meant the storyboards were irrelevant. That doesn't mean I just have to leave the framing up to the camera op. Must take control. Second of all, I don't know what we were thinking, having those lights so red. Stupid, stupid, stupid idea. I'm hiding all of the gels away from everyone. You want to stick shit all over the lights? Fine, but scrim only.
New location, looks better, much better sound and light control. Still worried about other people disturbing our shoot. Also worried that actors (even though they said they would come) will change their mind at the last minute. Can't believe it was screwed up so badly. What on earth made us think we could do it all in a day with a week less pre-production time than every other group? Madness.
I also think probably I must just suck at directing. I'm not the easiest person to get along with. I take some getting used to. Put another person like that on the team, and we should have been arguing every two seconds. Yet we weren't. That should have been an IMMEDIATE indicator that things were going to be totally screwed. A decent argument never killed anyone. If anything, just made the parties involved think harder about their reasoning.
So I'm upset. I'm less upset now that we have made the affirmative decision that someone else will be camera op this time. Someone who is going to check and re-check everything often enough to be annoying, which is a GOOD thing, someone who will communicate with me and I won't be scared of stirring up an argument with her, someone who is less intimidating but can hold her own in an argument.
I think this will help. I think the new location will help. I don't think the fact that I am seriously worried that I can't direct to save my life will not help. Confidence is at an all new low. I don't think I have ever felt less confident about something in my life. Although I threw the towel in on my Political Studies exam and somehow wound up with an A+ - please let this happen again, I don't think I could handle it if we let everyone down again.
Here's to version 2.0 being as far from a failure as possible. |
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| Swell |
[Sep. 28th, 2006|10:18 pm] |
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I feel really happy today :D |
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| Random Numbers |
[Jul. 30th, 2006|06:51 pm] |
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I keep finding numbers written everywhere. On scrap pieces of paper, in notebooks, you name it, I've scribbled a number on it, and cannot for the life of me remember what the number is for or why I wrote it. |
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| Why |
[Jul. 28th, 2006|09:36 pm] |
Why do some people stop as soon as they get off the escalator?
Do they not realise that the escalator will continue after they are no longer on it?
I'm sick of ramming into people from behind because there is nowhere for me to go at the top or bottom.
I'm stuck in the middle. |
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| If... |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|11:45 pm] |
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If I ever get married I will not wear a white dress. |
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| Splat |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|10:48 pm] |
When I was 11
a kid dropped their little tub
of yoghurt on the school bus
It slid down the aisle
and under the seat
It rolled left and right
and out the door at the next stop
Of all places it landed
in front of the wheel
and as the bus took off
it splattered across a little boy's shoe
When I was 12
I wrote a story about it
From the point of view of the yoghurt
I wonder why I never do these things anymore. |
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| Snow White? |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|01:50 pm] |
I changed my hair recently.
I'm not really sure why I did it, I think I felt like everything around me is changing, everything I am doing is changing, and my kind of overall place in the universe is changing so I should look different as well. Maybe.
Some people have failed to notice it completely, which is quite interesting considering it is in fact a rather significant difference.
Some people have walked past me and not noticed me altogether because they thought I was someone else, and I've even had the 'double take' response a couple of times.
A couple of people have decided I in fact now look like Snow White. Which is funny because she is much prettier (and much dumber) than I am.
I'm not sure how I feel about it. I think I am really happy that it looks different. I'm not convinced that it looks GOOD though. I struggle daily with my hair because it fights me on every level and has a mind of its own. And one mind was enough for this head I gotta say. Plus it annoys me in the morning because I can't just put it in a ponytail and forget about it, it actually needs a bit more effort in order to not look terrible.
Anyway. There's a nice superficial post for you to digest and forget about. |
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| Hello Blog |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|01:44 pm] |
Okay so I have a blog. It's a student blog where I write all things academicky and production experiences and on the odd occasion a big rant...
It's not particularly personal though.
I never write anything personal on it because it has a rather wide readership among fellow uni students and a small handful of academic staff as well, and I'd rather that only close friends or people who don't know me at all be the ones to come across the personal stuff.
So welcome to my personal blog. Enjoy your stay. |
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