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So by now we've finished shooting the short "Vargens timma", I'd meant to blog during the shoot and keep you updated on the process, but there wasn't time to, nor energy. One night we kept going well into the morning, and Anja and I stayed the night in the flat where we were filming, and that was the good day because it meant we got a few hours of extra sleep. But the shoot went well. The team was amazing. We got some great material. A couple of images in particular are awesome, so stay tuned for teaser trailer or film clip! So far we've only started syncing the images to the sounds, which is simple enough but takes FOREVER, and therefor we haven't been able to start editing yet...


We also had the pitch for 360 grader on friday. I'd given up on composing some sort of script for it and just had faith that I knew what my film was about and how I wanted it to look and I just went up and improvised. It went swimmingly. I felt really confident, even though I was extremely nervous before-hand. Same thing for Anja. In fact I think everyone were blown away by the fact that we both "took the stage" with such ease and confidence, no longer playing the insecure little shy girls that people have seen us as, and it felt really liberating. And even if I faked the confidence when I first went up, I found it for real as I stood there. And afterwards when Anja and I were congratulating each other on a job well done, a classmate of ours did this subconsciously patronizing thing that happens so often, he laughed and commented in the sort of voice you use to talk to kids or puppies and said we were cute, and both Anja and I instinctively put him right and told him not to say stuff like that, and he obviously felt bad because it wasn't his conscious intention, but that's so typical. When a girl has a victory she's "cute" but when a guy has the same victory he gets a heartfelt slap on the shoulder and a "Good work" that isn't high-pitched at all.


I've also applied to a scriptwriter's course for next year, as you know. And I moved on to stage two in the admission. We had to analyze a script of our choice and write down our thoughts on it in relation to our own writing, I chose "The indian runner" and started out praising the strong lead characters and their complex relationship and the plot as a whole, but ended up criticizing  it for its stereotypically two-dimensional female characters put into the story only to accentuate the male characters further (made a parallel to Lars Norén's female characters, for those of you familiar with his plays, as well as the female characters in the Bible) and ended the whole feminist manifesto saying scripts like this made me not want to, but feel the need to write my own scripts, just as powerful but with the paper dolls a.k.a. female characters taken out and replaced by actual three-dimensional human beings with minds of their own, because I can't relate to the two female leads in The Indian Runner at all, I can relate to Frank (played by Viggo Mortensen) and even Joe (played by David Morse) because they're stereotypically human, as opposed to stereotypically male. Maybe I came on a bit too strong, but as I told Cesar in an email a few hours ago, if they end up accepting me into the course, they might as well be prepared for what they're taking on, right... We also had to write a scene between 2-3 characters with the theme jealousy. So I struggled with that yesterday and managed to convert it to pdf as well and got it sent off just in time for the deadline!

Going home for the day now. Should be doing yoga, but don't think I'll make it in time. Should also eat something, but don't think I have much food left in my cupboards. I have rice, I think. And soured milk, some at least. And salsa. All very yummy! Especially combined!