Sorry, forgot 1 more point
7 This Friday night, 19th Oct, there will be a 48 hr film festival. There's only one team from QUT as far as i know, the rest are too lazy/busy to take part i guess, or they're ignorant. Anyway, this team is made up of 2nd years mostly, and cos i know quite a few 2nd years, i was asked to join the team by Linda, president of the film and tv society and fellow friend. We had a meeting today, last week there were 10 crew members, today there are 12, so yay! More money for the production. The 48 film competition is exactly what it is, we have 48 hrs to make a film, final cut is due on Sunday night. How exhilarating!! Muahaha... Can't wait. With all the uni work i've got to get done, i really shouldn't take part in this, but if you never take risks, you'll never get out there and you'll never learn to manage your time properly. In a way, i'm being greedy (taking on as many things as i think i can handle and just hope that everything pans out). Silly? Not to me, to me it's a challenge!! Haha... I'm just consoling myself. But seriously, i'm really excited. It'll be great.
On Friday night, we meet up to pull genres out of a hat, and pick up our character names and an object that we have to incorporate into our 5 minute film. This'll be wicked awesome. No sleep this weekend! Of course different people are assigned to different jobs, but we still help out in other areas as well. This'll be a great learning experience and a great exercise at working with people you don't know, just like out in the real world. Haha... QUT, university for the real world, or so they say. Anyway, there are only 3 first years out of the 12 crew members- Truls (the Norwegian guy who's been in my uni production groups for 2 semesters in a row now, i dragged him into it cos he's a good sound guy), Heather (don't know her that well) and me. The rest are second years: Linda, Alex (female), Killian (our director), John, Camilla, Cassy, Matt, Tim, Dylan.
Oh and dad, this is for you: i am the only asian in this group here.
DAD, i guess i was a bit unclear, so to answer your questions:
I have two groups, one for Narrative Production (the shoot up at mt. Tamborine) and one for Resource Management (the short film budget).
Team members for the Narrative group are: Grace (director), Annika (editor, assistant director, writer-cos we chose her script proposal), Melissa (production manager), Reina (director of photography (DoP), a.k.a. cinematographer; my group member from the previous semester), Truls (post sound, composer, sound mixer, boom operator; also my group member from the previous semester) and me (lighting, boom operator). Again for you dad, i know you're not trying to be racist, don't worry, but Reina (Japanese) and I are the only asians here.
Team members for the Resource Management group are: Serena (the one that dropped out of uni, leaving us with an sms), Tracey (the one that has ditched us at a meeting twice now, once without explanation, once with, but at least she gets her stuff done), Chris (bit of a slacker but he's getting his act together) and me (i've completed almost all my sections already). Dad, for you once more, I am the only asian here. Haha... this is funny.
Sometimes i regret not going with Annika, Grace, Reina and this other-girl-i-don't-know for the Resource Management group, but i will not go back on my decision and do not regret my decision despite all the drama cos i still think what i did the day we were supposed to break up into teams, that is, it is better to work with a diversity of people than to keep working with the same group for the rest of my two years at uni, cos if i don't start breaking out of the nearly-formed-cliques, then i'll never have the guts to do it in the future. But don't call me a hypocrite just yet cos...
This however, doesn't necessarily apply for units (uni subjects like Foundations of Film and TV that we did last semester or Narrative Production that we're doing this semester) where we have to go out and shoot as a team though, cos that is hell if you don't have your shit together and group members are not on par with the rest of the group. That my friends, is digging yourself a hole, sitting in it, and then burying yourself by hitting the C4 detonator for the C4 that you planted beside the earth you dug up for the hole you're in. That is what i have learned from speaking to friends in other groups and seeing other groups not work well together and also from hearing one of the lecturers say, "if you find a good group in uni, stick with them and make films together even after you graduate cos good people are hard to find and if you're all on the same frequency, then even better!" That of course is not word for word, but that's what she meant.
But for the Resource Management budgeting assignment, all 3 of us showed up for the tute today and got our stuff together, and it seems we are strangely, way ahead of the groups i've spoken to. I say strangely cos it is really bizarre that we'd be more organized than other groups that have 4-6 people. FYI, Annika's group hasn't even started dividing up the post-production section yet. I'm not laughing at them or anything, i'm just making a point. My hypothesis is that of which many have quoted--what won't kill you (Serena leaving us), will only make you stronger (which it somehow has). We're meeting up tomorrow to get most things done at the labs and start entering in figures in Microsoft Excel for the budget. Awesome! I hope to have this done by the end of this week so we can start on our accompanying essays. All this shit is due on the 29th (i think i've mentioned this, sorry for being repetitive).
That's all for now, thanks for reading and thanks for caring!
On Friday night, we meet up to pull genres out of a hat, and pick up our character names and an object that we have to incorporate into our 5 minute film. This'll be wicked awesome. No sleep this weekend! Of course different people are assigned to different jobs, but we still help out in other areas as well. This'll be a great learning experience and a great exercise at working with people you don't know, just like out in the real world. Haha... QUT, university for the real world, or so they say. Anyway, there are only 3 first years out of the 12 crew members- Truls (the Norwegian guy who's been in my uni production groups for 2 semesters in a row now, i dragged him into it cos he's a good sound guy), Heather (don't know her that well) and me. The rest are second years: Linda, Alex (female), Killian (our director), John, Camilla, Cassy, Matt, Tim, Dylan.
Oh and dad, this is for you: i am the only asian in this group here.
DAD, i guess i was a bit unclear, so to answer your questions:
I have two groups, one for Narrative Production (the shoot up at mt. Tamborine) and one for Resource Management (the short film budget).
Team members for the Narrative group are: Grace (director), Annika (editor, assistant director, writer-cos we chose her script proposal), Melissa (production manager), Reina (director of photography (DoP), a.k.a. cinematographer; my group member from the previous semester), Truls (post sound, composer, sound mixer, boom operator; also my group member from the previous semester) and me (lighting, boom operator). Again for you dad, i know you're not trying to be racist, don't worry, but Reina (Japanese) and I are the only asians here.
Team members for the Resource Management group are: Serena (the one that dropped out of uni, leaving us with an sms), Tracey (the one that has ditched us at a meeting twice now, once without explanation, once with, but at least she gets her stuff done), Chris (bit of a slacker but he's getting his act together) and me (i've completed almost all my sections already). Dad, for you once more, I am the only asian here. Haha... this is funny.
Sometimes i regret not going with Annika, Grace, Reina and this other-girl-i-don't-know for the Resource Management group, but i will not go back on my decision and do not regret my decision despite all the drama cos i still think what i did the day we were supposed to break up into teams, that is, it is better to work with a diversity of people than to keep working with the same group for the rest of my two years at uni, cos if i don't start breaking out of the nearly-formed-cliques, then i'll never have the guts to do it in the future. But don't call me a hypocrite just yet cos...
This however, doesn't necessarily apply for units (uni subjects like Foundations of Film and TV that we did last semester or Narrative Production that we're doing this semester) where we have to go out and shoot as a team though, cos that is hell if you don't have your shit together and group members are not on par with the rest of the group. That my friends, is digging yourself a hole, sitting in it, and then burying yourself by hitting the C4 detonator for the C4 that you planted beside the earth you dug up for the hole you're in. That is what i have learned from speaking to friends in other groups and seeing other groups not work well together and also from hearing one of the lecturers say, "if you find a good group in uni, stick with them and make films together even after you graduate cos good people are hard to find and if you're all on the same frequency, then even better!" That of course is not word for word, but that's what she meant.
But for the Resource Management budgeting assignment, all 3 of us showed up for the tute today and got our stuff together, and it seems we are strangely, way ahead of the groups i've spoken to. I say strangely cos it is really bizarre that we'd be more organized than other groups that have 4-6 people. FYI, Annika's group hasn't even started dividing up the post-production section yet. I'm not laughing at them or anything, i'm just making a point. My hypothesis is that of which many have quoted--what won't kill you (Serena leaving us), will only make you stronger (which it somehow has). We're meeting up tomorrow to get most things done at the labs and start entering in figures in Microsoft Excel for the budget. Awesome! I hope to have this done by the end of this week so we can start on our accompanying essays. All this shit is due on the 29th (i think i've mentioned this, sorry for being repetitive).
That's all for now, thanks for reading and thanks for caring!
posted by My life in Brisbane, if you care... at 10/16/2007 05:30:00 PM
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Good luck and all the best at that =>
I'll be going into surgery on Thursday so most probably I won't be able to see for a week or so plus weeks to come on the road of recovery. =<
Anyhoo, take care and good luck again.
It was hard in Monash Uni (Melb) to work with non-asians in the Computer Science course, cos THEY'RE ALMOST ALL ASIAN or supreme uber-nerds (squash me in nerdy intellect - 'what you dunno what a hyperthreading-non-recursive-neural-network-iterator is?')
Biomed was easy - I was like 1 of 2 azns. It was way more fun that way.
Then again Jamie, what if find a mediocre group and you have blocked yourself from finding an even more kick-arse group that you can only find by switching groups. There may be more to learn from being in a failed group. There is a saying that goes something like this 'You have failed only if you do not learn from your mistakes'
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