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Zombie and Rotterdam

Posted 19 years ago · Tagged: rotterdam film festival · 2 Comments

It’s been a week with ups and down, I’ve been having a course in adaptation, we all thought it was going to be about how to adapt a novel, but we were all wrong. Our teacher, Marcell, has a rather different definition of the word, in his opinion adaptation is also just getting your thoughts down on paper, so everything is an adaptation in his mind. I didn’t really learn anything, we mostly sat around discussing stuff, and he never really concluded anything or gave us the right answer, so not really the best week ever.

Yesterday I was en extra in a big student-made zombie movie. It was the climatic scene of the movie, a lot of killing and maiming, and it was cold as hell. Also, to make it more realistic, we got C-Vitamin tablets (that dissolve in water), and when you put those suckers into your mouth everything explodes in a nice cascade of saliva: gross. It was a lot of fun though, can’t wait for the final result.

Almost all zombies, unfortunately I was taking a piss at the time.

In 1,5 hours I’ll be on my way to the Rotterdam Film Festival, we’ll be down there from Tuesday to Friday so that’s going to be cool as well. Unfortunately we won’t be there when the Coen brothers come for a Q&A Session, but hey, that’s life. Also, we’ll stay at the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, a hotel famous because it’s so disgusting… This is hanging in their main hall:

More zombie pictures:

Gore! The movie will be shot in black and white to make the crappy make-up look more realistic.

Me, moments before I’m turned into a zombie.

Water + C-Vitamin pills.

2nd Project with Egmont

Posted 19 years ago · Tagged: egmont · 4 Comments

The second movie project is right around the corner, here at the European Film College. The theme of the first project was musicals, this time around we’re doing it a bit different though. The school has made an agreement with Egmont, the big Scandinavian media group who owns most of TV 2 Norge, all the rights to sell Sony products in Scandinavia (which means there are a bunch of PSPs and a PlayStation 3 in our Reading Room at the moment) and a lot more. Their 2006 revenue was circa 9 billion DKK.

The agreement is quite simple, we’re going to make a series of one minutes movies for them, which will be shown on their website, at conventions (as an introduction to what Egmont is all about) and maybe even in Danish television. We can more or less make whatever we want, the logline of the movies have to be “We bring stories to life” since that’s also the slogan of Egmont. We do have to include some of their products in some of the movies though, but that can be an issue of Donald Duck in the background or something simple like that. I’m going to be writing the script for at least one movie, so I’m looking forward to that a lot. The production starts next week.

Guitar Hero 3

Posted 19 years ago · Tagged: guitar hero 3, xbox 360 · 6 Comments

We're seven guys at the school who play a lot of Guitar Hero 2, so we split the price of the third one and it arrived today! We're currently unlocking all the songs in Career Coop, and we've managed to get most of them on hard so far. The songs are awesome as well, Sabotage, Paranoid, Welcome to the Jungle, Ruby, etc.

Secret screening & Mr. Mejer

Posted 19 years ago · 1 Comment

Just a small update in the midst of doing a lot of movie-related stuff. We had a visit by Danish director Aage Rais-Nordentoft (2 ryk og 1 aflevering, Anton) and he actually screened his upcoming, unfinished movie Buddhas Killing (not final title). It was incredible to be allowed to participate in a test screening, since its purpose is to get feedback from the audience. The movie was quite good, although very explicit with a lot of sexual content. It was a pretty good movie, but unfortunately movies like that will only be shown in a small selection of cinemas in Denmark.

Wednesdays we have lectures and today Preben Mejer visited us, he’s the creator of Innovation Lab, Vice CEO of TDC and host from the television program ‘Danmarks Bedste Ide’ (the bearded guy). He talked about innovation and the technology we’ll have in few years, for example bendable flat screens, and it was very interesting. I took some pictures, they can be seen here.

EFC: Beginning of courses

Posted 19 years ago · 11 Comments

One week of introductions, two weeks of Shooting Games, and now we're finally at the real thing, the courses. We started prioritizing the different courses last week, these first two weeks I was able to choose between camera and lighting, documentary, acting and sound, I gave documentary the highest priority and that's also what I got. I'm able to choose one more course of the four I just mentioned, and I'm going for camera and lighting, because acting and sound don't really appeal to me.

Anyway, I had my three first hours of documentary lessons today, we talked about each other (we're 10 in the class) and tried to find some interesting stories. As I've understood it we're going to make small documentary-like clips, screen them in the small cinema and then talk about them. Our teacher, British documentary maker John Burgan, is very good, he's made a lot of documentaries and he's got a lot of interesting things to say.

Monday evening is also Doc Club, which means John screens a documentary in Big Bear, tonight we're going to watch Cinemania, which is about a group of movie freaks who watch at least five movies every day; they don't have any jobs, they just watch movies.

As you can see on the EFC-section of this site I've been watching a lot of movies, so far I think it's 1,3 movies every day, in average, and that's mostly what we do when we have spare time, and it's great! There are so many movies I've wanted to watch and now I'm at a school with 109 students who's got the same desire. It's also something completely different to watch movies with someone else, and especially when they're also interested in movies. For example, this weekend we had a multi-cultural film festival here called Salaam.dk, we watched two documentaries and a feature film about refugees, all made by Michael Winterbottom, and there was a lot of discussions afterwards.