Monday, May 29, 2006

there's nothing like ....

.....minutes after doing the postman part of the producer's job (i.e. driving to the other side of town to deliver a script), running into an actor who has been having said script for two days and hearing him say "THIS IS JUST BEAUTIFUL" about it with the bright spontanneous smile to match and an empahsis on beautiful..
now the cynics (and i am one) may comment on the fact that dude ACTS for a living and they may have a point. i'd still enjoy it though..

In other news, i think i'm tired of Magnesio's voice and Kuduro beats in general.. my new musical temporary addiction is La India's voice singing about Yemaya, Ochun, Love, Happiness and her first rumba...

Also, after very complicated calculation (and excell and appleworks files for info extraction, i love this word), i realized that we need to shoot a little over 7 minutes of usefull material a day on average..
now of course this means sometimes less but also sometimes MORE..
in school, i've been taught that the average in europe, on professional sets was 3 minutes... but we're not in europe (we can be faster) and we're new (we can be slower or faster depending on an infinite number of circumstances)..
that didn't stop koko from thinking that was extremely low..
debate followed (as always).
solution was found (sorta).

so between the western 3 minutes a day and the nollywood 30 minutes a day averages there is a middle ground, right ?
that's what we're aiming for..


what's the average in HK, btw ?

aflakete the wunderkid at 6:13 AM

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at 3:34 PM Blogger Comb & Razor said...

interesting... i was just listening to the new La India album this morning myself. It's not her best work, and probably leans away from the kind of material she's known for in favor of more trendy stuff (ie it's got too many reggaeton tracks) but her voice is always like sunlight shining on my soul.

I'm not sure what the shooting ratio is in HK... i think it's generally higher than Hollywood's (of course) but then, they edit in a completely different, faster-paced way... so they end up using much more of the film they shoot every day.

 
at 3:36 PM Blogger Comb & Razor said...

by the way, you should see the big smile on my face... i'm glad that the actors are connecting with the material (rather than, say, er... LAUGHING at it)!

 
at 9:47 PM Blogger Nunya said...

just wanted to say.....(said to af a million times)..that i love what you guys are doing here man....
...some inspiring shit for real...

Keep on

 

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