1) I finished my animatic a few weeks ago...
2) I've arranged for a beautiful young lady, Miss Darryl Ryznar, to "act" in my film, which I hope to be shooting in Edinburgerland at the start of Term 2 (circa Jan 6th). [Keep your hands off her Mike!] I've arranged for another beautiful young lady, Annalise Wimmer, to get me footage of her Beagle in Hungary for my film during the holidays... (Why has this blog suddenly turned into "Compliments R Us"?)
3) I'm trying to instigate a New Wave movement in Scottish cinema, so I'm going to get all experimental on my film: Part of this involves recording the dialogue in Finnish. [Don't complain you racist people: why should a bunch of scribbles on 1000s of pieces of paper that create the illusion of movement be speaking in English? The drawings by themselves don't speak any language, so how can you justify them having any particular language or accent?] (The main reason my film will be in Finnish is because it sounds cool!)
(While I'm dishing out compliments I might as well tell you that it is the lovely Erica Weiste who is going to record the dialogue for me. For those that don't know, I lent my expert scanning skills to Erica's graduation film "The Gardener" last year, and it was shown in the Kettupäivät (Fox Days) Film Festival in Helsinki at the start of November).
4) I've got my essay deadline on Jan 7th; but I'm not doing any of the important work that I really should be doing. Instead of that I am whittling away the days until Term 2 by watching a lot of films.
- You should track down "Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana" & "Calamari Union" by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki cos they're really good (in a super strange New Wave / non-conventional kind of way)!
- Alfred Hitchcock's "ROPE" was filmed in a really interesting way. ROPE is about a couple of homosexual murderers, but you're not allowed to refer to them as homosexuals - you have to refer to their sexuality as "it"... The film has Jimmy Stewart from that Christmassy film about the guy who wanted to kill himself & Farley Granger from that tennis film about 2 train passengers who arrange a couple of murders).
- "The Exorcist" was lame; and "The Shining" was really boring...
- "Wall-E" was rubbish; it's a shame there's nothing else in the mainstream worthy of winning animation awards these days...
- "Quantum of Solace" was the most pointless film I've seen in a VERY VERY long time!!!
5) I set up my own blog yesterday called "One Man And His Blog: Rambling Through Fields of Animation Since 2005" at www.armacpherson.blogspot.com
You should go visit it and read the essay that got three A's...
I think that's me caused enough trouble for one blog... I could add something abusive about Owen, but I'm going to behave for my first blog post on "Mike's Desk"!
In fact, while I'm dishing out so many compliments, I might as well say that I can't argue with Owen's comment on a Facebook photo of him and Paul: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=172221&id=299400241&ref=mf
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