Hunting High and Low 

Ocean

Here I am
And beyond the reach of my hands
She sound asleep and she’s sweeter now
Than the wildest dreams
Could have seen her
And I watched her slipping away
And I know I’ll be hunting high and low

High
There’s no end to the lengths I’ll go to
High and low
High
There’s no end to the lengths I’ll go to

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Monday, November 8 2004
 
Original Music
 

This Night is Over 

Fluoro Tan for the White Man

(Warning: Occasional Medium Level Coarse Language)

Filming a documentary following the lives of three different nightfill workers at a supermarket is not as easy as I first thought. In fact, documentary is much harder than fictional work since you have to wait around and hope to get the footage you have in your head (and paper). With this documentary, I have it all in my head clearer than any other project I’ve ever worked on since I know the people there (yes I do that shitty job to pay my way through Uni, rent and bills, etc’85) but the problem is, various factors cause things to change, factors you have no control over. Ideally, I’d be spending those crazy hours of 10pm - 6am with the subjects until I can break through that personal layer and get inside their heads. Enable them to feel comfortable enough to give a no holds barred confession to the camera about their lives, how they deal with body clock issues, etc’85 But it’s not plausible given that I (and the crew) don’t have the time to do that in our current situation. So now I’ve gotta step outside that mindset, reassess how I might re-structure the documentary and take another approach. I’m always thinking in my head while filming how it might be edited. Ultimately though, I can already see it not having the dynamic it first had, which on paper came off half decent. Okay I hear you saying “this is JUST a Uni assignment dude!” but I’d still like to be able to make something that people might think of as trivial and boring interesting. If you can pull that off, then you get an enormous amount of satisfaction. When it comes to filmmaking, I take it pretty seriously and if you haven’t realised already, I’m kind of a perfectionist in that area. It also helps that you have a crew which are just as dedicated as you because the end result will show (this is in another league altogether of course, but look at the Lord of the Rings trilogy crew. They are like my idols!). The problem with a Uni assignment is often you’ll be thrown into a group where your members aren’t into it (or motivated in the same way) like you are. That’s understandable but fuck it’s frustrating. Actually can I just:

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Saturday, November 6 2004
 
Filmmaking
 

Halloween 2004 

[ Halloween 2004: Surrealist entertainment coming at ya! ]

I can safely say that Halloween this year has lived up to its fabricated tradition of strange things happening. Jinxes have been potentially broken, I’ve walked around a Halloween party wearing a hockey mask only to be asked numerous times which character I was, and I watched my brother jump out of an aeroplane at 10,000 feet, free falling for a good 40 seconds for his birthday. Throw in some daylight savings time switching and things started to feel pretty bizarre.

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Monday, November 1 2004
 
Parties
 
Future Ramblings