Defoe – The Marooned Space Traveler

Thematically speaking, a science fiction is no more mature than a fantasy with fools and horses, unless burdened with the weight of a place in time, an existential question.  Things change when you start to say ‘this story can happen, it’s very very unlikely, but yet, I can vividly imagine it being a reality’.

This is why mature science fiction films are difficult to make, and in the evanescence of special effects becoming commonplace in all films, making them can only get harder.

Time Traveler

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We had been eating at the Archway Kebab Centre, one of the best places to eat turkish food, and at a really good price.  After heading separate ways, I found myself without an agenda or plan of sorts, except to just go home, the sun was disappearing and a cold breeze was coming in. I also had to be on a Film Set for the next day, so I better have an early night.

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Frankensagne – to further push the boundaries of our understanding

Lets cook a vegetarian lasagna, my brain said to me yesterday. Alright, let’s do that, I said to my brain.

Walking the Dog: An Experience

I always wanted to look after a dog, or a cat, or even some fish, it really didn’t matter what so long as it was a living entity. Heck, a plant would even do, probably the cheapest and less emotionally distracting for those in-the-case-I-fuck-up-and-they-die situations.  The reason I don’t have a pet or a plant is because I move around so much, sometimes to other cities for days, and so I wouldn’t be able to give a pet the long term attention it needs to survive, and yes, because of this, they would probably die. However, a dog named Billy was an unplanned guest in the house, probably one of the friendliest, laziest, bipolar dogs I’ve ever met. His breed is called a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, I think. I asked a pedestrian with a similar looking dog, except with black spots instead of brown.

Half Man/Half Clam – Perfectionists and Fatigue (Part 2)

I was using a Canon 5D Mk2 to film the production, it had two measly problems that I had fixed before arriving in Ipswich. The first problem was how the camera ate up battery life like a hungry whale in a shrimp farm, during filming it would last only up to an hour and a half, which for a camera is surprising, and the whereabouts of a DC IN socket is either non-existent or beyond me, so it can’t be plugged into the wall. I solved this by having 3 batteries and recharging them all, as well as having one charging on the go.  The second problem was how the filming function took up about 3 minutes per Gigabyte of Memory space, meaning an hour of filming required 20GB of space on Compact Flash Format.  I was going to film the 1 hour long production twice (the dress rehearsal and the real performance) so I was glad that I had acquired two 32GB Compact Flash cards beforehand. Other than those two problems, I haven’t encountered anything notably annoying. It is a camera that can capture some astoundingly beautiful shots.

Half Man/Half Clam – Perfectionists and Fatigue (Part 1)

It’s normal to leave things to the last shred of time on the last day. I’m not saying it’s hugely practical, or popular, but it’s really just a natural phenomenon, no different to floods, earthquakes and typhoons.  we had been shoveling the project deeper and deeper towards our goal of completion, aiming to finish it a day before.

We met that deadline, but typically, problems had to show up.  First one being good ol’ mister perfectionism and the other, a slow and incremental build up of fatigue that snuck up behind us whilst we were dodging the clock and diving over cups of coffee and black tea.  I was working on the new and improved album cover, whilst Zach and Jamie, who both made the band The Magic Lantern Duo (Jamie being it’s brainchild) were trying to master the music. The album cover needed a redesign, Zach had liked the cover a lot, Jaime liked the picture but thought it was too complicated and didn’t focus on the play enough.