Weddings, old discoveries, new friends, and long projects
Weddings:
So I went to Kat's wedding in Bakersfield, great times and great to know that I know some more old friends to hang out with. Was great to see all the old ULC cronies. I hear the only way you move to L.A. with a social network is if it moves with you. That hasn't quite been the case in my situation and so when you actually get the opportunity to see old friends it's something you can appreciate more. The DJ at the reception was a last-minute addition and happened to be an FSU grad. He played the war chant and the fight song and I let my politics die for just a moment to relive the old days as college freshmen, not knowing what the hell we were going to do with our lives but knowing damn sure that come Saturday we better kick the other team's ass. So yeah, all in all, a great wedding, not to get all sentimental and gushy, but when you see two people that happy who fit that perfectly, it gives you hope. It makes you realize just how big that last commitment, how everything before, well, it matters, but it can't compare to that, not if you do it with the right intentions. It makes you realize all the relationship bullshit on that way to finding whoever, heartbreak, jealousy, betrayal, all that... eh, small fries. It's worth what you get out of it in the end.
I found some old pictures of me in the desert that I took when I moved out here that are surprisingly good. I was going to post them but the damn thing isn't letting me post 'em. Funny the things that I came across now after I got my camera working (for ten minutes before it died again). Found some scouting photos, the ONE picture I took with my ex (weird huh, you date for like 9-10 months and you take one picture together, a shitty one at that), I found some old photos of Toy Box employees at the Dodger game, back when we all happier and not so stressed beyond belief with work... I found a picture of my old friend, Robert, a DP on one of my films from FSU who came out for the holiday weekend back in '05. Found some cute photos of my niece and nephew playing in the back yard right before I left. Man, I should really invest in a new camera. Good memories are hard to retain in all their "good-ness". The bad ones just linger like diseases. I need to keep track of more good ones.
So... dates are going well... maybe a little too well. Had to decide between work and a date for Sunday, said I'd do work, but then the decision was made for me, boss got an editor to do that job that he was gonna get me to do. Guess it makes sense considering what they pay those guys and thusfar what I'm paid. I dunno if I'm really ready for a relationship yet, but I certainly can't argue with having the company :).
Movie update, still waiting for folks to get back to me with efx note. With the exception of a few things I need to tweak, the color correction came out pretty damn cool. Everybody's been pretty much like "Oh, wow. It looks like a movie, now." Then again, after seeing features given to us before color correction, I have a new respect for color post. Even the best DP in the world (beside doc filmmakers) can't make a pre-color correction print look much better than an average TV movie. I've been working on a movie that so far, has looked like ASS
and researched the guy who DP'd it. It was the fucking cinematographer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". That's right, the one that won the Oscar in 2001. I couldn't believe it. Considering how on the fly we shot this thing and how muddy the initial colors were (less and less a fan of the DVX100 every day), I'm slowly beginning to think there is NO REASON any film in it's final print should look anything less than amazing.
So I went to Kat's wedding in Bakersfield, great times and great to know that I know some more old friends to hang out with. Was great to see all the old ULC cronies. I hear the only way you move to L.A. with a social network is if it moves with you. That hasn't quite been the case in my situation and so when you actually get the opportunity to see old friends it's something you can appreciate more. The DJ at the reception was a last-minute addition and happened to be an FSU grad. He played the war chant and the fight song and I let my politics die for just a moment to relive the old days as college freshmen, not knowing what the hell we were going to do with our lives but knowing damn sure that come Saturday we better kick the other team's ass. So yeah, all in all, a great wedding, not to get all sentimental and gushy, but when you see two people that happy who fit that perfectly, it gives you hope. It makes you realize just how big that last commitment, how everything before, well, it matters, but it can't compare to that, not if you do it with the right intentions. It makes you realize all the relationship bullshit on that way to finding whoever, heartbreak, jealousy, betrayal, all that... eh, small fries. It's worth what you get out of it in the end.
I found some old pictures of me in the desert that I took when I moved out here that are surprisingly good. I was going to post them but the damn thing isn't letting me post 'em. Funny the things that I came across now after I got my camera working (for ten minutes before it died again). Found some scouting photos, the ONE picture I took with my ex (weird huh, you date for like 9-10 months and you take one picture together, a shitty one at that), I found some old photos of Toy Box employees at the Dodger game, back when we all happier and not so stressed beyond belief with work... I found a picture of my old friend, Robert, a DP on one of my films from FSU who came out for the holiday weekend back in '05. Found some cute photos of my niece and nephew playing in the back yard right before I left. Man, I should really invest in a new camera. Good memories are hard to retain in all their "good-ness". The bad ones just linger like diseases. I need to keep track of more good ones.
So... dates are going well... maybe a little too well. Had to decide between work and a date for Sunday, said I'd do work, but then the decision was made for me, boss got an editor to do that job that he was gonna get me to do. Guess it makes sense considering what they pay those guys and thusfar what I'm paid. I dunno if I'm really ready for a relationship yet, but I certainly can't argue with having the company :).
Movie update, still waiting for folks to get back to me with efx note. With the exception of a few things I need to tweak, the color correction came out pretty damn cool. Everybody's been pretty much like "Oh, wow. It looks like a movie, now." Then again, after seeing features given to us before color correction, I have a new respect for color post. Even the best DP in the world (beside doc filmmakers) can't make a pre-color correction print look much better than an average TV movie. I've been working on a movie that so far, has looked like ASS
and researched the guy who DP'd it. It was the fucking cinematographer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". That's right, the one that won the Oscar in 2001. I couldn't believe it. Considering how on the fly we shot this thing and how muddy the initial colors were (less and less a fan of the DVX100 every day), I'm slowly beginning to think there is NO REASON any film in it's final print should look anything less than amazing.