The Gifted Babies

I wrote a short review of the 53rd Film Festival.

The link is:

http://www.pluggedin.ie/content.php?id=10

Peace

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As the title says, today marks the anniversary for Worksheets, a film that’s basically footage of us trying to make a film in a space of 24 hours and failing to do so 🙂 As far as I can remember from that night it was more of a houseparty than a filming session. By the way the group name “The Gifted Babies” came from this video.

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I dont know how far we will get with our limited acting skills. You cant catch everything in editing but we like to tell ourselves that.

Ideas we got plenty of. That does not neccesarily mean they can all be made into RTE quality series. Oh god please help us in this hour of storm. Its very likely that our ship will sink because a ship can have only one captain.

On a more positive note: ‘Hello world! And most importantly shiver me timbers!!!!’

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1. The story revolves around a mid film reveal of a seemingly friendly cat named Milton…

2. A strict 1pm start. Harsh but we could lose daylight.

3. In the event of someone’s death, it will be Piratehelm.

4. The following words will lead to distractions. “Pancakes”, “tea”, “Cethan” (esp. when combined with a popular phrase), “Ace”, “To”, and “Base” .

5. There are reshoots.

6. There will be groans immediately following mention of reshoots.

7. Random outburst of singing. This been a popular choice,

8: Editing fixes everything

9: Nobody uses a script

10: The film crew display symptoms of ADHD ( that goes for the director as well )

11: Zoooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!

12: The phrase “don’t worry, we can dub over it” is used frequently

13: You are eating every half hour at someone else’s house

14: When you make Jan grumpy. (This most typically comes at round 11pm, when tiredness and giddiness have settled in the crew’s minds)

15: There is swearing to beat Jesus.

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RIP Hitachi DZ-MV750E DVD camcorder 2005 – 2008

Not that it's broken, it's just that I'm no longer going to buy Mini-DVDs for it

It’s like that scene from Old Yeller. I’ve never seen the film but I heard about what happens in the end, turns out Bruce Willis’s character was the ghost of Kaiser Sosay. But that has got nothing to do with the topic, despite what Cethan may suggest in the comments section. Anyway, after shooting the last few scenes for the second Milton film on Thursday night, I pretty much used the last blank mini-DVD that I’ve been able to find from a pile of computer accessories I intend on giving away for charity with an attached price tag. I’ve had this Hitachi DZ-MV750E DVD camcorder for 3 years now but it was only since last year that I started using it for making films. I used it the year before to film a Dramat play but that turned out to be a pointless endeavour, as I had too much college work to do & Dramat never bothered chasing after me to get the stuff edited. The play was quite shite. Anyway, my dad bought it for me when he was flying back from Australia in 2005, he picked it up from Singapore Airport for something like €250 so back then it was a pretty good price and as far as I can remember DVD cameras were a lot more popular back then, nowadays people just spend their money on flavoured condoms.
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