Yes! I am going to be filming something. In a little bit different way than I expected, but still I'm looking forward to it. Before I get to that a little update of what happened in the last few weeks, organized chronologically in bullet points!
1) (ok they are not points but numbers)
After Edinburgh Film Festival I came back to Spain and I did what I usually do there, which is totally nothing. Really unproductive week full of eating tapas and drinking cañas, but still some ideas for my new movie have emerged in my head. Time passed fast to the number:
2)
Another job in Scotland - T in the Park music festival, which as all jobs in Scotland I'm getting - was absolutely amazing. It was good to come back, especially with brilliant weather for this part of the world. The festival itself was fine - I filmed some pretty good bands. From my stage the best ones this year were: Pendulum and Katy Perry with her tartan dress - amazing (to see, not only hear!). Apart from that the main attraction of this year's T for the Tech team was a game of spoons introduced to us by Mike Guest (one of the camera guys). The rules were simple - take a wooden spoon (or a big metal one) and hit somebody with it when they least expecting it. I know, sounds a bit childish, but everybody was playing it. I really enjoyed this work, great times (even sleeping on porta-cabin floor was alright).
I left Edinburgh again (for the 5th time I think) and of course there was a small leaving party drinks.
3)
Back to Spain - same old - doing nada, but this time I could be a tour guide cause some friends were visiting me. So I went again through the nicest parts of the city, and also surrounding towns like Toledo (were we got lost 100 times, without a map) and Segovia and beautiful mountains of Guadarrama.
4)
After this it was time to say goodbye to Madrid. I will have all great memories about it, although professionally it was a complete failure. I discovered that independent film networks, and local filmmaking don't exist in Spain, and there is simply no work in my profession there. I tried my best and it didn't happen, sometimes you just have to accept it and move on. And so I did. I was only worried of how the hell I'm gonna ship 60kg of my film equipment back to Varsovia...
Ok, enough numbers. At this moment I'm back to Poland, repacking all day, because I'm about to set on a journey, which can be described only as the most amazing and hardest hike of my life. I'm about to walk from the shore of Atlantic the shore of Mediterranean all the time through the Pyrenees. I plan to film something there, maybe not a documentary but rather something simple, like a memory from every day of the journey. Wish me luck everyone! I won't be back before end of September so I won't be updating the blog (not many hot spots in Pirineos). Once I come back I will do some serious film work, I had enough holidays for a while. All the best to people reading this (and also to all other people in the world and extraterrestrial species out there in the universe).
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A touch of cine-world
Hello world,
I've neglected this little place of cyberspace, I know, but for the first time this year I've been really busy, so I have a good excuse. Let's get on to it then.
After a lovely Burgman scooter trip around south of rainy Poland I came back to España, to do... completely nothing. Madrid works for me like a charger for my inner solar panels. I go somewhere to do stuff, I come here and nada I stay in my bed for long hours, watch tons of TV series, drink some cañas, enjoy the sun. What a life. I could do this without an end if I had ongoing work somewhere else. Maybe it´s a good model and I´m sure I will come back to it one day. So apart from starting playing endless campaigns in Heroes of Might and Magic with my flatmate, nothing really happened.
Until 13th of June, when I yet again went to Scotland. I got a job at the Film Festival again and it turned out to be an amazing fun. I can't share here all of the stories from the festival unfortunately, but I will share a few.
As always I saw Sir Sean Connery, 3 times! It's so surreal, when you see old James Bond on the street. Very cool. He is a patron of the festival and he comes down there every time.
My job was - to set a stage, lights and cameras for the interviews with invited guests. The interviews were recorded and broadcasted live on the big cinema screen for the audience. Unfortunately I don't remember the names of all the guests invited this year, but the most interesting ones were: Sam Mendes, Darren Aronofsky and Antony Dod Mandle, plus of course Joe Dante (director of the cult movie: Gremlins). Most of those interviews was really interesting.
Another guest was Ted from RED, showing us his prototype of a new RED Scarlet Camera, I had a chance to touch it as well. I'm looking forward to see them in action, it will be a true digital revolution. Nice one Mister Ted RED.
Apart from that there was a lot of parties (and free bars) which is nice when you are a poor DOP and you don't wanna spend a fortune on drinks. I have some great stories from all of those parties, but I don't really want to share them at this public space. After all this is a blog about filmmaking.
Speaking of which I made contact with a few nice people and who knows, maybe we will be working in the future. At the moment I'm still working on my new movie treatment and the idea is gaining more and more solid ground. I want to have it done by the end of the month, so I can send it away to other writers for consultation.
I watched only two movies, sadly, because as always I didn't really have time to see anything. So I saw "The Hurt Locker" - not bad film full of tension about a bomb diffusion expert in Iraq, and a new Lars von Trier film Antichrist which I truly detest. It was really evil... I don't know what is going on in Lars's head but it's nothing good. If I ever meet him I will say - cheer up man, have an Irn Bru, which he wouldn't probably understand. So a word to anyone, especially couples, or potential couples - do NOT go see that film with your girlfriend... oh no... I don't know if Lars knows how many potential dates he has ruined, because people didn't know what to expect from the film and went to see it anyway. Shame on you Lars, for ruining peoples dates... and the economy (cause once you see it you won't go to the cinema for a while cause of the trauma). For me Lars is over. I will never see his film again.
So with this optimistic news I shall finish and also I want to say that I had a brilliant time in Scotland with the wonderful tech team to work with. It is a shame it's over. Good times!
Now I'm chilling out (well not really cause it's hot like hell) in Madrid, and in the week time I will be back to Scotland for T in the Park music festival, three days filming on the stage, live gig, 80 thousand people, amazing. I look forward to it.
I've neglected this little place of cyberspace, I know, but for the first time this year I've been really busy, so I have a good excuse. Let's get on to it then.
After a lovely Burgman scooter trip around south of rainy Poland I came back to España, to do... completely nothing. Madrid works for me like a charger for my inner solar panels. I go somewhere to do stuff, I come here and nada I stay in my bed for long hours, watch tons of TV series, drink some cañas, enjoy the sun. What a life. I could do this without an end if I had ongoing work somewhere else. Maybe it´s a good model and I´m sure I will come back to it one day. So apart from starting playing endless campaigns in Heroes of Might and Magic with my flatmate, nothing really happened.
Until 13th of June, when I yet again went to Scotland. I got a job at the Film Festival again and it turned out to be an amazing fun. I can't share here all of the stories from the festival unfortunately, but I will share a few.
As always I saw Sir Sean Connery, 3 times! It's so surreal, when you see old James Bond on the street. Very cool. He is a patron of the festival and he comes down there every time.
My job was - to set a stage, lights and cameras for the interviews with invited guests. The interviews were recorded and broadcasted live on the big cinema screen for the audience. Unfortunately I don't remember the names of all the guests invited this year, but the most interesting ones were: Sam Mendes, Darren Aronofsky and Antony Dod Mandle, plus of course Joe Dante (director of the cult movie: Gremlins). Most of those interviews was really interesting.
Another guest was Ted from RED, showing us his prototype of a new RED Scarlet Camera, I had a chance to touch it as well. I'm looking forward to see them in action, it will be a true digital revolution. Nice one Mister Ted RED.
Apart from that there was a lot of parties (and free bars) which is nice when you are a poor DOP and you don't wanna spend a fortune on drinks. I have some great stories from all of those parties, but I don't really want to share them at this public space. After all this is a blog about filmmaking.
Speaking of which I made contact with a few nice people and who knows, maybe we will be working in the future. At the moment I'm still working on my new movie treatment and the idea is gaining more and more solid ground. I want to have it done by the end of the month, so I can send it away to other writers for consultation.
I watched only two movies, sadly, because as always I didn't really have time to see anything. So I saw "The Hurt Locker" - not bad film full of tension about a bomb diffusion expert in Iraq, and a new Lars von Trier film Antichrist which I truly detest. It was really evil... I don't know what is going on in Lars's head but it's nothing good. If I ever meet him I will say - cheer up man, have an Irn Bru, which he wouldn't probably understand. So a word to anyone, especially couples, or potential couples - do NOT go see that film with your girlfriend... oh no... I don't know if Lars knows how many potential dates he has ruined, because people didn't know what to expect from the film and went to see it anyway. Shame on you Lars, for ruining peoples dates... and the economy (cause once you see it you won't go to the cinema for a while cause of the trauma). For me Lars is over. I will never see his film again.
So with this optimistic news I shall finish and also I want to say that I had a brilliant time in Scotland with the wonderful tech team to work with. It is a shame it's over. Good times!
Now I'm chilling out (well not really cause it's hot like hell) in Madrid, and in the week time I will be back to Scotland for T in the Park music festival, three days filming on the stage, live gig, 80 thousand people, amazing. I look forward to it.
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