It's been a while, but not updating blog usually means I am busy with something else and this something else is usually filming, and filming makes people happy and happy people make the world happy and happy world is good. Usually.
So Filming in Poland has kicked off pretty quickly compared to Filming in Spain which hasn't kicked off at all. I have been here for 3 months now in Warsaw town and my recent project were the following:
- University Lipdub for Warsaw School of Economics, great fun filming and I could finally push myself to the bone with my steadycam. The results were to say the least awesome, 95 thousand views on youtube 5 days after publishing. My graduation movie in which I put all my blood and sweat compared to that looks miserable with only 3 thousand views during over 3 years time !!! And even the mainstream TV News Station mentioned our story a few times. You can see the clip here:
LIPDUB VIDEO
If you are a University and you want a gifted steadycam man - then I am as always for hire.
- Another project required me to go to London, which was a good fun adventure also. I haven't been there for a while and it was great to be in a city that looks like a vibrant city with lights and colours, not post nuclear waste-land with zombies like Warsaw. The documentary was for TVP Kultura channel and featured many talented polish artists in many galleries across London and Oxford. It required me a lot of running with steadycam through the fields chasing people dressed in the golden suits... I know it sounds weird but it will make sense eventually when I post some footage.
- I have also nearly finished a music video for a band called Masskotki with my filmmaker friend Krzysztof. We ended up with a lot of juicy footage, all shot on Canons 7d and 5d. I hope it will be ready soon, because I am excited to share it with you.
More good news. I have won the 1st prize at yet another film festival, this time in Warsaw, which was ace because I wanted a big screening here and I got one finally. One of the judges liked the film so much that he managed to get me a screening in the television - TVP Kultura mentioned before again. So this is it guys... years after the final shot, after a months of editing, sending dvds, months of bad luck and no-replying-to my emails people it got finally there - to the TV screen. I am so excited about it that I guess I can retire now, work on workshops for filmmakers about how to do a movie with a mop and a bucket and get it out there, only 3000 £ for a weekend session for the rest of my life. But no...
Not everything was so great after all. Over the TV Channel TVP Kultura the dark clouds began to gather and the new CEO of TVP (the public TV in Poland, sort of what is BBC in UK) has basically ceased all production in 2010 for the Kultura channel, that means the companies I've been working with this month will stop producing programmes, and will stop employing me, and there will be less filming, and usually when that happens I am not happy and when I'm not happy the world is bad also. Bad very bad, bad.
So there you go nothing is ever easy and there are more challenges for new year as always (last year there were more for the following as well... I ran out of storage space for challenges long time ago anyway).
I will write some more, soon because I have some theories about why all the companies I work for end up in big shit over time, but for today it is a long post already.
To conclude I wanted to show you a Christmas music single which I think is just great. The song is called "White wine in the sun" and it's written and performed by Tim Minchin
Youtube single
Enjoy and have a happy Christmas
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
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