Exhaustipated

Well it's Saturday finally, and I've pretty much just woken up after a really deep, long-craved-for sleep. It's been a crazy 4 weeks workwise, and these days I so look forward to having no commitments on the weekend. Let me see what projects I've been working on this past week in my iCal...

I edited a lingerie commercial (!) and finished that last week for Warners (they've never done advertising here in oz), then a charity job for WaterAid (www.wateraid.org.au). i edited 2 x 60 second ads, and a 30 second spot. I think they should be on the website soon, so keep checking...pretty funny stuff, but guaranteed to make you think about the tragic state of water in developing countries. Mojo, the ad agency who wrote the campaign, apparently consider these WaterAid spots the best thing they have done all year :)

Then on Thursday and Friday I worked on a Ford commercial, adding some news shots into the campaign that's been on air since last year. you know the one with the Alex Lloyd song "Amazing" with all the 3D visual effects with buildings turning into sand. Looked like a simple job, but usually those ones that appear simple can be the trickiest...

of course, the "Staria" promos have been going on, and the illustrator Roger came in on Friday to have a meeting with us, and he pretty much said "It's good, but I think the script is really awful", which is what I anticipated he would say, so I suggested he re-write Staria's lines since he has been writing them for over 20 years and knows what would come out of Staria's mouth. Geez, the criticism kinda hurt, but only cos I get frustrated when people cannot be diplomatic about it i.e. launching straight into the negatives, rather than complimenting you on the positives, or at least thanking you for all the hard work you've done in the first place. but anyway...this is something I enounter ALL the time in this industry I find, and it's kinda depressing aye....

so yes, I've also been working on this music video for "Rekindle" - and it's actually a re-edit because the 2 directors were not happy with the edit that was being done in Melbourne for the past 6 months. so i've spent my free spare hours working on that as well this week, and it's kinda wierd and trippy music video, a bit David Lynchian, and they love what i've done with the footage they threw at me. Yesterday it was really cool to hear one of the directors Nicholas say "Thanks so much, you've really captured what Scott and I wanted to achieve, this basic idea we sort of had, that was not coming through the previous edit at all, so thanks heaps." that was really nice to hear, sort of made up for the bit of a downer I was feeling from the other job.

And the next 2 weeks are gonna be just as crazy my producer Vanessa tells me, with a Telstra comedy spot perhaps happening for me with a director I've never worked with before (scarey), and maybe a Foxtel job, and then a confirmed web short film for Roses Only, which may go to cinema. That job looks really cool, as it will all be shot vignette style, kinda like the beginning of "Amelie" i think....hopefully lots of room for creativity and some fun sequences to edit.

"Staria" will continue all the way up to October, with the 3D department downstairs now building the models for Staria on their whizz-bang computers, and they look really cool, although i think they are trying hard not to make her look like a porn star! I think the promo has the potential to be kinda cool - will be interesting to see if the concept goes ahead, and we begin making a series! not sure what my involvement will be if a series goes ahead....

yay my laundry is now done.