Here it is, my first film. I'm proud. I'm happy with it. I'm happy that I thought of something at the start of the semester and stuck to it. That alone was rewarding enough. First off, thank you so much to my wonderful actors, Maria Chan, Emily Tea, Trinh Ruth Duong and Louise Dietz-Henderson. Thanks for waking up early and helping me carry shit. By the way, my history lecturer Matty C said the performances were great so congrats lol Thanks to Michail Mathioudakis for being a rad cine even tho I moved a lot of your shots hahaha I like that eyes only on the edge of the frame shot a lot bro. Thanks Katherine for the house, it's a gorgeous house. Your parents have an amazing bedroom, #goals. Thanks Dinh-Ho Chau for putting up with my lousiness. Thanks for making me a soundtrack even though I used white noise. I changed the poem after I recorded Maria's voiceover and basically, the music didn't fit right and although it was definitely sad music, it just didn't seem right. Thanks for understanding and being cool about it. Also thanks for removing the static from the voiceover LOL Thanks Josh Valageorgiou for giving me hot tips in the editing suite and thanks Oliver Brighton for teaching me how to speedgrade in the editing suite. Thanks aftrs for the equipment and studio and for this opportunity. I'll be in a tonne of debt by the end of the course and I probably won't be rich and stinking famous but watching my own work in that theatre was an amazing feeling. It was so nice to see the girls spread out over a huge screen and to hear my own poetry on loudspeakers. I was so happy.
I did make a lot of mistakes but I'm sure I learnt from them probably. I think if anything, I'd change the way I tackled the whole rape topic. I feel like I accidentally romanticised it and that was shitty of me. I would've liked to have inserted a scene of women holding onto Trinh for dear life as she bawls her eyes out. But I thought it up too late. Oh well. The scene in the film was supposed to reflect the ugly nature of rape, the deflowering of a young girl in the worst way. I do admit that while I was shooting it, I forgot this and instead, I was more focused on making the shot pretty.
Anyways, this was my fave still:
Thanks for reading and thanks for watching my first film. Next film: Either 'Nature Boy' (working title), a series of voice messages sent to a boy who runs away into the deep depths of foliage and greenery or 'Original Sin' (working title), an electric take on the adam and eve story.
