damn!
I worked in the film industry here for years. I remember seeing the crews standing around doing nothing and wondered how they justified it, (I came from a theatre background) until I actually started working in the industry, and you do stand around a lot, but when something needs to be done, fixed, added or struck, you better be doing it at light speed! Time management is everything.
I worked on the last Mad Max, and George Miller had to hire four editing crews and edit the film 24 hours a day, (as filming was behind due to weather) in order to get it to the American screens on time. The distributors told him if he delivered to them late, to come back in two years for another chance to screen it!! It is a tough business on every level.
Good luck with your project, you should add a post script into the credits telling the 24 hour competition story, it might swing voters to your work, in a festival situation...ya never know!
cheers
fog
2. February 10th 2008 @ 05:56. Corey Shaw Says:
Awww Jo, I've worked on a film, what was to be a tv pilot and it's so hard to make a deadline. We almost didn't make a deadline, on the last day we still had 3 scenes to shoot. We were filming until the wee hours. In our case the pilot never got picked up, but I learned a lot and know how hard it is making a movie, which is why I have so much respect for the process, and all the people who put time and energy into their projects.
Jodi and I are sorry you missed your deadline by only a few (or what seems a few) minutes. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors with the film. We love ya lots and are sending good meditation vibes your way.
xoxo Corey
3. February 10th 2008 @ 06:11. Anonymous Says:
I have been very pleased to be with a great group of people and now that I know the truth I feel like somenthing fail in my heart but at the same time I can not wait to see them again. I guess you want call it ' amore '.
Cibb's got a great idea... and you should enter it, into everything. Sorry you missed the heartbeat this time round, perhaps it'll turn into your greatest luck in time to come?
Oh and thanks for the pics of Coogee, it was my first home here in Australia and I just loved that beach (welluntil I discovered Maroubra) *chuckle*
A'right, a'right y'all - I'll put it up as soon as I get a copy of it... but you have to understand that the artistic vision and the director's interpretation weren't exactly in alignment... I may have to post the script too, so you can have a feel for what I saw and .. um... what we managed to actually produce.
Corey, thanks for them lovely words of support. I am a total fan of the 'behind-the-scenes' folk of the movie industry.
Michaelie, no idea who you've got in mind, but think it aint the same guy. Our guy Enzo is a photographer.
And you should check out the winners when they're posted up on www.coogeeartsfestival.com.au under Stinkwater 24 - they were really outstanding, in a league of their own if you ask me. I think these competitions should have categories for amateurs and for professionals as it seemed to be the professionals who nabbed the prizes. I have to say, I agreed entirely with the judges' choices. We didn't stand a chance of winning, even if we had gotten ours in on time.
Thanks all
Jo
Yeah I was in the audience. I remembered you because you were talking about Secret Mother's Business. Being a mum and all my ears pricked up when you were discussing the book.
Ooh, it is an amazing, awe-inspiring moment. Gawd, it feels like lifetimes ago for me... now those sweet little things that said 'airpopper' for 'helicopter' and 'loosekat' for 'music,' tell me I'm an embarassment and could I please NOT sing in the car....sigh.
Reading? You only get reading back when THEY START TO READ, so give yourself a break.
And enjoy them while they're still so in awe of us and 'mum' isn't a word synonymous with 'the bitch who says NO when I ask if I can use her credit card for Club Penguin membership...'
Jo
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
I worked in the film industry here for years. I remember seeing the crews standing around doing nothing and wondered how they justified it, (I came from a theatre background) until I actually started working in the industry, and you do stand around a lot, but when something needs to be done, fixed, added or struck, you better be doing it at light speed! Time management is everything.
I worked on the last Mad Max, and George Miller had to hire four editing crews and edit the film 24 hours a day, (as filming was behind due to weather) in order to get it to the American screens on time. The distributors told him if he delivered to them late, to come back in two years for another chance to screen it!! It is a tough business on every level.
Good luck with your project, you should add a post script into the credits telling the 24 hour competition story, it might swing voters to your work, in a festival situation...ya never know!
cheers
fog
Jodi and I are sorry you missed your deadline by only a few (or what seems a few) minutes. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors with the film. We love ya lots and are sending good meditation vibes your way.
xoxo Corey
Thank you all
Vincenzo Riemma
Hunt Famous
Orble Post of the Day
Fat Cult
Techbreak
From The Home Front
Enviro Warrior
Dream Herald
Esoteric Bookshop
Cibb's got a great idea... and you should enter it, into everything. Sorry you missed the heartbeat this time round, perhaps it'll turn into your greatest luck in time to come?
Oh and thanks for the pics of Coogee, it was my first home here in Australia and I just loved that beach (welluntil I discovered Maroubra) *chuckle*
Cheers
Lilla ...
Flick Wit
Corey, thanks for them lovely words of support. I am a total fan of the 'behind-the-scenes' folk of the movie industry.
Michaelie, no idea who you've got in mind, but think it aint the same guy. Our guy Enzo is a photographer.
And you should check out the winners when they're posted up on www.coogeeartsfestival.com.au under Stinkwater 24 - they were really outstanding, in a league of their own if you ask me. I think these competitions should have categories for amateurs and for professionals as it seemed to be the professionals who nabbed the prizes. I have to say, I agreed entirely with the judges' choices. We didn't stand a chance of winning, even if we had gotten ours in on time.
Thanks all
Jo
Film & TV on DVD
Mum's Word
The Enzo that Michaelie is talking about is my husband. He's here on Orble as yoda76. His blog is called The Daily Tube.
He's an editor. He edited Shelly Horton's pilot.
Definitely put the film up.
Well done for pulling it off. I've been involved in a few short films, but none that had to be done in 24 hours.
Love & stuff
Mrs M
I was on Shelly Horton's pilot! That's so weird...
will check out your hubby's blog.
Jo
Mum's Word
It's a small world
Love & stuff
Mrs M
Indeed it is...
how is motherhood going by the way?
Jo
Mum's Word
I always knew it was a mammoth milestone to reach but I didn't quite appreciate exactly what has to happen before a child can speak.
Always learning Jo, always learning.
Love & stuff
Mrs M
P.S. I also have Secret Mother's Business on my bed side table waiting to be read...it's been waiting a while now.....that's how motherhood is going
Other than that....it's fantastic.
Reading? You only get reading back when THEY START TO READ, so give yourself a break.
And enjoy them while they're still so in awe of us and 'mum' isn't a word synonymous with 'the bitch who says NO when I ask if I can use her credit card for Club Penguin membership...'
Jo