Day 11 – Time to Rise
I wandered into this morning’s singing session 10 minutes late, and found to my dismay that all of those silly sounding vocal warm ups actually make a massive difference. So, while trying to find the right key, I amused myself by failing to take photographs of an elusive Matt Bate, who kept hiding behind his sheet music. In the end I gave up and decided that the sheet music should get the spotlight instead (photo below).
We do seem to be doing a lot of work on perfecting these harmonies however, and I’m beginning to wonder what we’ll all do once we have mastered it. Will the Labsters get together once a week to make sure we still got it? Hope so. It puts everyone in a great frame of mind each morning.
Today’s singing was wrapped up with a bit of a wild card from Peter, who unwound all of our sweet choir style rehearsal with some yodelling and cow herding practice. Great fun. Good thing it is really Saturday and there is no one else in the building… Makes me wonder if we’ll be manoeuvering cows through the offices in the next few days… Anything is possible.
Stephen then rounded the troops into the lecture theatre for a detailed breakdown of story elements, and what the Labsters should be thinking about for the coming week. They were recently informed that this coming Tuesday would bring their final presentation – but the catch?…
…The usual team spectators will be replaced by a panel of Market Representatives and SAFC staff! These same people will be presenting a panel on Tuesday night at the Mercury Cinema, “Beyond Production: Getting Your Film to Market” (more info is on the SAFC website – see the link to the right so you don’t miss it!) The pressure is on the Labsters to present their ideas to highly experienced industry members, who haven’t been around to witness the creative process of development. It is time to break down the project presentations to the usable elements, and put them together for a new audience.
We figure that this would be yet another engaging challenge. But if the Labsters can get into their own locked offices without keys (no names) sheerly on the basis of desire, then I daresay there will be a lot of socks hanging from the ceiling fans in the presentation room*.
*Here I wish to note that I have been making many references to socks and ceiling fans within the SAFC building. However to my knowledge I have not seen any ceiling fans since I have worked here. Consider this an effective visual metaphor and please do not make a note of bringing it to my attention. For those of you that were considering it… well done, aren’t you clever, let’s move on now.
With only four more days to go and the pressure mounting, my premonition is that the Labsters will finish this process energised and inspired, rather than exhausted, which is great footing for the next step in FilmLab.
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I can’t make neither head nor tail of it. I just watch Paddy’s eyebrows go up and down indicating which note comes next…
Julie knows when she’s hit the note she wants.
Paddy tells us we need to do it again, this time, WITH FEELING!
Matt misinterprets Paddy’s instructions above and feels himself. Ashlee hopes she isn’t next…
“Just a couple of complex points to remember off the top of your heads guys. No need to write them down.”
