Day 13 – The Heat is On!

It seems somewhat ironic that I would choose such a title for this post, considering that last night was one of the coldest so far this season, and tonight looks like it might be even colder! Although the building here may experience that cold from time to time, the Labster’s are certainly feeling the heat with only one more night before they have to present their chosen project to the panel of guests.

Ready and raring as they were to start brainstorming and writing, the morning would not be complete without a musical warm up. I must admit that I did miss today’s singing session, as I was running around like a headless chicken picking up equipment, but I hear that the Bach is coming along nicely, and everyone is slipping into the German lyrics with a bit of encouragement. I think tomorrow I may hand out moustache growing kits just to get everyone into the spirit, and follow this with 1L Oktoberfest steins if they still need assistance in feeling the mood (they’ll have to supply their own beer though). Later in the day I heard people humming along to an African song Paddy taught us early last week, so I can only assume that formed a part of this morning’s session too.

The focus of today’s lecture was exploring tools to sum down all of the essential elements and add any important points that must be included, then cram that all into an engaging 5-7 minute presentation that says all the things you need to say, but not too much about plot, and make the audience want to see the film you haven’t yet made. EASY!

Thus the task for the day was set. Bellies full of lunch (not photographed today but can be described as a vision of risotto, shepherds pie, stuffed capsicums and raspberry and pear crumble of delight!) the Labsters scurried off to begin drafting their presentations. They then proceeded to meet with Stephen, Paddy and Peter for a practice run, some feedback, and then back to the drawing board towards perfection.

Fortunately we’ve managed to convince the market panel to stay on after the FilmLab presentations, and they will be presenting a discussion chaired by SAFC CEO Richard Harris (senor tenor extraordinaire) at the Mercury cinema tomorrow night at 6pm. They will be discussing the all important (but often overlooked) aspects of marketing film, and it should be an informative event for everyone who attends – and everyone is invited so no excuses! More details are on the SAFC website, just click the link on the right.

Technically speaking, no one has asked me to build any rocket ships or program any androids, so tomorrow should go fairly smoothly from that point of view. This is just as well, as I discovered my motor skills had somewhat diminished at 5am this morning as I struggled to assemble a kinder surprise toy. One wonders why I was assembling children’s toys, eating chocolate, or even awake at all at that time of morning… but the three elements seemed to play together nicely, even if it took me longer than usual to construct the plastic character I have now nicknamed “Paddy Note-head”. Paddy Cunneen was introduced to his mini-me at lunch today and I’m sure he’s now gone to a loving home. (The plastic toy, not the ACTUAL Paddy)

Wishing good luck to the Labster teams for tomorrow, I’ll leave you with some images of the new additions to the family.
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Paddy Note-head, who has now been dubbed “Crotchet Head” by the REAL Paddy, composes scores for us to sing in weird languages…

Crotchet Head’s distant cousin Stephen Opaquey. Mr. Opaquey did not require any assembly so was therefore not as entertaining at 5am. Sorry Stephen!

“And then you make them go WOOP WOOP! – Don’t you see Eddie? It’s just genius!”

There’s no escaping this all seeing eye! Extreme wide angle of the “fishy” kind courtesy of B Mason. (Let’s name him Lord Sauron…)

~ by safilmlab on July 6, 2009.