Now I will stop editing for few weeks. Today I started a swedish language class, cause it´s necessary to my BA-examination. (Probaply not a very good idea to write here in english now, it feels really hard, cause all day I´ve tried to switch my thinking to swedish). Also this week is the art goes kapakka festival, espoo cine festival, night of arts and on friday I´ve supposed to have a test on Rabiger: Directing documentary - book. Which I hate, and haven´t read trough yet. So a a busy week coming.
I named my film some days ago. I´m not sure about the english title yet, but the name in finnish is "Tänne ei voi jäädä" translated it means "One can not stay here".
I showed it to one young moviedirectorgenious, a classmate of mine. He laughed a lot and shook his head and said something like "What a cult-piece, I´d never had guts to do anything like this. Quite a spectacle." He also had some nice ideas about the beginning of the film. Then one of the actors and a dear friend of mine Juippi saw the film. He was truly impressed and said "When putting things in a certain perspective, this film is almost better than Predator, maby." (Predator is his favourite movie).
My parents also saw the latest version, they seemed a bit puzzled but happy about the fact that the shortfilm turned out to be something. They said that it doesn´t hide its feelings..or I don´t hide them.
So everything looks well. On sunday I met with Markku, the sound designer, he seemed also happy about the film and wanted to start working on it as soon as possible. that is good, but I´m still on the editing prosess, and It`ll take a while untill I can lock the picture.
The ending music is a big problem. I don´t know what to do with it.
Today was the first time somebody saw the short movie (workingtitle:) "Karhula". I edited a 29 minute version and showed it to one of my fellow editors at school. She was pleased to be the first one to see this film. Just the thought of showing this version made me do some changes to it. This is good, cause when you are alone with the material, its stops affecting you. You don´t feel anything. Today I got some good impressions and got in touch with the movie again. I got some good advices and encouragement from the person I showed it. I guess she was one of the people who will like this film, cause I´m sure that this will divide people. Some will hate this kind of naive artsy shit. I´m doing my best to do this honestly, not to do any choices because I´m afraid or something. So anyway, this was a good day. And I´m also happy for other reasons, I now have some life outside my room, away from my computer and away from this movie. It has been very refreshing to be outside, doing other things with real people again. Not just actors or people on the computersceer. I´m also having second thoughts about my haircutting thing. I´ve also had some ideas about the title of the film. One is a sentence, other just one word... I don´t know which is better. But it wont be "Karhula" cause that doesn´t mean shit. There will be a 3dvd boxset available this fall. Musicvideo dvd (version 2) with over 15 musicvideos, Videoworks - dvd (something like videoart but not videoart) with over 15 works also. And The Early Works - dvd, with a lot of material on it. These dvd´s will include animation, things which are availabe on my homepage, demoversions of videos, never before seen footage.. all kinds of things. Buy! Price will be something around 10-15 euros. Now the dvds will have menus, not like the earlier musicvide dvd which was made in a hurry. Those who already have the Musicvideo dvd I´ll give the new version for free (or with a discount) if they buy the other 2! waU!!!I also had a really great weekend, I didn´t notice how the time went by, wasn´t worried or stressed out by anything,almost everything was well. But today when I wen´t to get my camera out of repairment i sat down on a metro and read the local citynewspaper and saw this headline "Dark weekend". Atleast 17 people were killed in accidents around Finland..! and the things in Isreal and all that area are going straight to hell. I was really pissed off. Problem is that I don´t know anything about anything. I´m frustrated. I´m sure my next work will be a bit angrier and more dark. Not much, but I have some new ideas concerning my next doing.. hm. Better not to write them here.
