The Astral Woman - The Shoot

The shoot went well. We shot from about 7pm until 6am and then I had to go to work. It was a rough day, but I feel good about things. Because we had a small crew and not a whole lot of pre-production work, set-ups took a fairly long time and we had to cut a number of shots to get finished even by 6am.

Last night and this morning I started converting footage and laying it into a timeline. The shots we got look great, hopefully it all comes together.

The Astral Woman - shoots on Tuesday

Hello. It's Sunday and The Astral Woman project shoots on Tuesday.

I've gotten most of it together. I still need to paint a box red and remove this wooden divider from the inside.

I got the ostrich egg. Here's a creep photo of me holding it...

THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - POST PRODUCTION in stages...

I have a cut of The Alchemist that I'm pretty happy with, but the sound is difficult to work with. The recordings have a lot of interference(clothes rustling, camera noise), so I get a little exasperated every now and again. I'm considering a new creator for musical composition and spoke with a friend about looking for a composer who might be interested in doing the sort of music that I'm interested in. I listened to his demos and they're good stuff, so hopefully we can begin talk on all of this soon and see if this is a project he would like to be involved with.

I got the tax return deposited into my bank account and now I just have to find the time to bring the film over to PostWorks and get a best light transfer to HD. (!!)

The Astral Woman

The Astral Woman is a short short I wrote. It's a dialog-less film that symbolizes a woman moving towards wholeness. It's a reinterpretation of the classic symbols of self realization that were mainly masculine figures, at least in our (European/American) history. The Astral Man or Cosmic Man is a figure symbolizing the joining together of the different aspects of a person into a complete and whole being sometimes represented as a hermaphrodite and sometimes as a masculine figure. In the case of the short, the person playing the Astral Woman is a dark skinned woman who has often been referred to as androgynous. She's a beautiful young lady and I think her appearance adds a new reference for the concepts of how a whole self can be represented.

This past weekend, I met with a woman named Luiza who works one day a week at my job. She's interested in producing or production managing and she's on board with the short short, to help move it along into and through production. Then I emailed everyone in preparation for the shoot, getting together the minute details that bring everything towards completion. We plan to shoot at the end of May.

I'm itching to have more work posted. I haven't created any new videos for some time now. Some time soon I want to shoot the test roll of Super8 that I have, to find out if this Super8 camera my friend lent me works, since he wasn't sure. I just need to get some more stuff out there, for my own piece of mind.

Anyway...yep.

Submitted Helen

Last week I submitted the script my dad and I have been writing to the IFP Independent Film Week competition. Interested to see where that is going.

I passed my Motorcycle Safety Course and got my Motorcycle License on Friday. My moto is in the shop, getting new cables and what not and should be good to ride sometime next week. Pretty excited about that. It's beautiful outside.

I spent a good portion of the day cleaning and rearranging the apartment while listening to Penguin Cafe Orchestra. I'm supposed to have a meeting this evening to talk about the projects I'm working on and discuss steps towards creation. Alchemist sound design is moving at a slow and steady pace and I bought a whole bunch of candles today.

Good things.