SOUND THINKING
Yesterday I started designing the sound track for the pilot episode. It was exciting because of the new equipment that we have. We can do surround mixes and left to right, right to left transition phases.
I had so much fun that I forgot to eat lunch. Then it was pointed out to me why I was spending too much time with the sound mixes when the local televisions have monaural
Speakers on them at best.
Who the fuck cares! Just as long as your work looks good and sounds good.
The workload is lessening now. I figure I have at least 3 days off before shooting the succeeding episodes so now I can blog again.
Summer is about to begin and we have just completed the last week before the finals.
I handled three senior years students and one section of 3rd year. So the tight schedule, flexes down some more.
Now I can actually stop and pause and look at the sky and smell the roses so to speak.Appreciate the moment and listen to the obnoxious sounds of jeepney drivers trying to kill each other, ahh this is the life!
A NEW HOLY GRAIL
I thought that my toy fixation has ceased and desist after last years marvel legends. Then the BATMAN figure came out from MATTEL. The one with the year one look. OHH WOW! I have been trying to find this number for months now. Then I discovered that the elusive toy was last seen in Harrison plaza. The tragedy of it all is the fact that I was in Robinson’s ermita when I discovered that fact. And by the time I knew, the other collectors have descended like vultures on the two remaining toys.
Now that I have a few days of relaxn Im seriously thinking whether to go out on a crusade to acquire this much valued item.
Looking at the line up that Mattel released there are dozens of batman in the store. There’s a mink coat covered BATMAN then there’s the IGLOO WHITE colored BATMAN. Then there’s the purple and green BATMAN. I mean think of any color in the rainbow and they have a BATMAN of it. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT BATMAN IS ABOUT! BATMAN IS BLACK COWL AND CAPE AND GREY OVER ALLS AND A BIG BAT SIGN ON HIS CHEST! WHY ON EARTH DID MATTEL issue only one TOY per box! WHAT THE FUCK where they thinking of?
When you check out the stores they have these PUSEDO PIMP BATMANS but no sign of the BATMAN original costume. BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTS THAT! They should have manufactured dozens of the original costume and made the igloo white colored BATMAN as the hard to find variant! Probably I would be pinning after that as well!
CHANSON DE GESTE
Aida, our yaya a very quiet woman with a very dry sense of humor announced a month ago after her return from her yearly sabbatical that she was seeing someone.
Of course Cess greeted the news with some trepidation.
CESS: “ What are we going to do now? If she gets married then we’ll have to find another yaya for SELINA. Do you know how hard it is to find another good yaya? “
FLIM: “ well she’s already 33. You know how women are when it comes to that biological time bomb clock of yours? You need to get laid and bear more brats. It’s nature’s programming on you working double time.”
CESS: “ Can you investigate? “
FLIM: “ You mean as in PRY? “
CESS: “ You’re good at that. Asking questions that are highly personal and offensive with that nonchalant easy going way tone…”
FLIM: “ The only reason I do those things is so that I can mine them for scripts.”
CESS: “ Well start mining for our kid!”
FLIM: “ ok…I will. But I have to be less direct… she might get offended! “
So I go downstairs and look at AIDA who had this Mona Lisa smile. Which is quite frightening because most of the time she has this cold one thousand yard stare. And now…
One wonders what’s going on inside her head.
FLIM: “ AIDA? Are you dating someone? “
AIDA: “ Yes sir! “
FLIM:” So what does he do? “
AIDA: “ He’s a soldier.”
FLIM: “ A soldier? “
So I rush upstairs to give cess her information.
CESS: “ A SOLDIER? OH MY GOSH! “
FLIM: “ Well I hate to speak in stereotypes but you know what they say about soldiers. They have more than one wife. They have at least 2 to three. Wouldn’t blame them if you’re life is always on the line; you need more than your fair share of excitement on and off the field!
CESS: “ That is so sexist! “
FLIM: “ Well I didn’t mean it to be a sexist thing. I bet even the woman soldiers would have more than one lover… Look I don’t want to argue about this whole feminist crap. All I’m telling you is that your yaya is in love with a soldier.”
CESS: “ I hope she knows what she’s doing.”
Over lunch Cess pried some more.
CESS: “ Aida I heard that you’re dating a soldier. Just be careful. You know how soldiers are? They have lots of wife. Who knows you might be number 4.”
Aida just laughed and went on her chore of cooking. That laughter sent chills up and down my spine. I don’t think I like the new AIDA. She reminds me of some eastern European witch.
Three days later we discover that Aida discovered that her soldier boy friend had another wife. It transpired because of a phone call Aida did. She called her soldier boyfriend.
AIDA: “ Hello May I speak to Petro?”
VOICE ON THE OTHER LINE: “ Who is this? “
AIDA: “ Aida.”
VOICE ON THE OTHER LINE: “ Are you his girlfriend? Well I’m his wife so don’t call ever again! “
Aida hanged up the phone. Now she’s back with that thousand-yard stare.Just when I got use to her showing human emotion....
Friday, March 19, 2004
EDITING PHYSIQUE
I’m now on the sixth day of my LEOINEDES DIET. My ideal weight used to be 140 since I’m 5’8. But for the past year I indulged myself in the DIONISIAN style of living. Which is eat as much as you like and be damned about the weight. So I ballooned. But I told myself that I could always burn everything in the gym. Initially it worked. So the flab became muscle and I could run like 20 minutes on the treadmill.
All of that changed when I started editing the projects that I was involved in. When I was working for TV. I used to pity the editors. You can tell if someone’s an editor by the way they look. THEY’RE ALL FAT!
And you can’t blame them that’s the nature of the job. They sit 24 hours a day inside an air-conditioned room as they trim and enhance shots and footages! The rooms are lit very low and when you’re deprived of sleep all you can do to regain the energy and your conscuiness is to eat high calorie food and lots of coffee.
The most exercise an editor indulges in is when they swivel their chair left to right, to slip in a videocassette or to touch up something on the audio. Occasionally they would stretch their legs and then look at you with eyes bleary and devoid of thought.
“ WHATS THE NEXT SHOT, DIREK? “
I had an editor once. We used to work out in the same gym and when I hired him he was lean and taunt. I told him that I’d give him four months before his body dissolves into a sea of fat.
EDITOR: “ That would never happen. I will stick to this regimen. Even if I don’t sleep.”
FLIM: “ Brave words from a newbie. Id give you four months. Three if you get a girl friend.”
I was wrong. He ballooned in seven months. But the weight he put on made up for all the difference.
FLIM” FUCK! YOU ARE BIG! WHAT HAPPENED? ”
EDITOR: “ I got a girlfriend.”
FLIM: “ Yes, blame it on the poor girl.”
EDITOR: “ And I had so many projects, left and right.”
FLIM: “ Yeah that happens! “
Editing is the most thankless job in the world. When I was editing my films I had a gym installed so that in between sessions I could work out. But now in the new studio there’s no room to put the equipment in.
And now that I’m editing three projects at the same time with infinitely long running times I spend more time in the editing suite that I would really like.
The gym sessions that I used to follow regularly has now abated because of the workload. The traffic eats up an hour going there so multiply that in a week you realize that 14 hours of your life would be lost just staring at the windshield while an idiot cop flags down and fleeces an erring motorist!
So nix the gym and just concentrate on the cuts. And in no time, you can see your stomach pushing the waists of your pants. And you can ‘t tell when your stomach became a gut!
Now being overweight is ok if you just intend to stay put and face the three flickering monitors all your life. But when you do the camerawork yourself …well now you’re in deep trouble!
AGILITY and stability are the main ingredients in making great shots! Those two are
Seriously jeopardized when you become overweight! You sweat more and you pant more and panting is bad when your hand holding a cam. You can see it on the viewfinder!
But it wasn’t that that force me to undertake the LEONIEDES diet. It was when I look at the mirror and stare at my stomach. Resolving to go on a diet is very easy. It’s taking the first step of not eating too much that is difficult. Especially when you’re a fantastic cook!
When you taste that slice of heaven, your mind goes…” Ohm wow! Id just take another bite and I can go on a diet tomorrow and then tomorrow…ETC.
Until you look back and it’s been months since you promised to stop over eating. But once you start and the longer you maintain it the easier it becomes.
I have the weighing scale clutched to my chest. I check like four times a day. And every time I eat I always get a small plate. VERY VERY SMALL. So you can overfill it but your stomach wont.
Next when I’m faced with a formidably delicious fare I always do a mental exercise.
I visualize the days that I have deprived myself. The long climb that I did towards MOUNT HELACON. IF I BETRAY MYSELF WITH ONE MORE MOUTHFUL
THEN ALL THE WILL POWER THAT I HAVE MUSTERED IN THE PAST DAYS would be for naught!
That’s just one of the mental exercises that I use for the LEOINEDES DIET. But I sued it before and it worked. Of course Cess tells me that any day now I would succumb to the dark side and would pig out! DAMN I LOVE THAT WOMAN!
I’m now on the sixth day of my LEOINEDES DIET. My ideal weight used to be 140 since I’m 5’8. But for the past year I indulged myself in the DIONISIAN style of living. Which is eat as much as you like and be damned about the weight. So I ballooned. But I told myself that I could always burn everything in the gym. Initially it worked. So the flab became muscle and I could run like 20 minutes on the treadmill.
All of that changed when I started editing the projects that I was involved in. When I was working for TV. I used to pity the editors. You can tell if someone’s an editor by the way they look. THEY’RE ALL FAT!
And you can’t blame them that’s the nature of the job. They sit 24 hours a day inside an air-conditioned room as they trim and enhance shots and footages! The rooms are lit very low and when you’re deprived of sleep all you can do to regain the energy and your conscuiness is to eat high calorie food and lots of coffee.
The most exercise an editor indulges in is when they swivel their chair left to right, to slip in a videocassette or to touch up something on the audio. Occasionally they would stretch their legs and then look at you with eyes bleary and devoid of thought.
“ WHATS THE NEXT SHOT, DIREK? “
I had an editor once. We used to work out in the same gym and when I hired him he was lean and taunt. I told him that I’d give him four months before his body dissolves into a sea of fat.
EDITOR: “ That would never happen. I will stick to this regimen. Even if I don’t sleep.”
FLIM: “ Brave words from a newbie. Id give you four months. Three if you get a girl friend.”
I was wrong. He ballooned in seven months. But the weight he put on made up for all the difference.
FLIM” FUCK! YOU ARE BIG! WHAT HAPPENED? ”
EDITOR: “ I got a girlfriend.”
FLIM: “ Yes, blame it on the poor girl.”
EDITOR: “ And I had so many projects, left and right.”
FLIM: “ Yeah that happens! “
Editing is the most thankless job in the world. When I was editing my films I had a gym installed so that in between sessions I could work out. But now in the new studio there’s no room to put the equipment in.
And now that I’m editing three projects at the same time with infinitely long running times I spend more time in the editing suite that I would really like.
The gym sessions that I used to follow regularly has now abated because of the workload. The traffic eats up an hour going there so multiply that in a week you realize that 14 hours of your life would be lost just staring at the windshield while an idiot cop flags down and fleeces an erring motorist!
So nix the gym and just concentrate on the cuts. And in no time, you can see your stomach pushing the waists of your pants. And you can ‘t tell when your stomach became a gut!
Now being overweight is ok if you just intend to stay put and face the three flickering monitors all your life. But when you do the camerawork yourself …well now you’re in deep trouble!
AGILITY and stability are the main ingredients in making great shots! Those two are
Seriously jeopardized when you become overweight! You sweat more and you pant more and panting is bad when your hand holding a cam. You can see it on the viewfinder!
But it wasn’t that that force me to undertake the LEONIEDES diet. It was when I look at the mirror and stare at my stomach. Resolving to go on a diet is very easy. It’s taking the first step of not eating too much that is difficult. Especially when you’re a fantastic cook!
When you taste that slice of heaven, your mind goes…” Ohm wow! Id just take another bite and I can go on a diet tomorrow and then tomorrow…ETC.
Until you look back and it’s been months since you promised to stop over eating. But once you start and the longer you maintain it the easier it becomes.
I have the weighing scale clutched to my chest. I check like four times a day. And every time I eat I always get a small plate. VERY VERY SMALL. So you can overfill it but your stomach wont.
Next when I’m faced with a formidably delicious fare I always do a mental exercise.
I visualize the days that I have deprived myself. The long climb that I did towards MOUNT HELACON. IF I BETRAY MYSELF WITH ONE MORE MOUTHFUL
THEN ALL THE WILL POWER THAT I HAVE MUSTERED IN THE PAST DAYS would be for naught!
That’s just one of the mental exercises that I use for the LEOINEDES DIET. But I sued it before and it worked. Of course Cess tells me that any day now I would succumb to the dark side and would pig out! DAMN I LOVE THAT WOMAN!
Last week, the Computer that was connected to the internet wont boot up. Because of the endless brownouts & the over written hard drive took its toll on CARBONEK. I dont usually name my pcs but I aquired this knack from my students who have more than one computer and they tell me that it saves them the time to indicate which is which. Plus it gives the pcs a more humane touch. they dont like referring to their pcs as just pcs. They have biblical names like JOSHUA, JERICHO and I forgot the third one.
So I elected to name my pcs as well. Now CARBONEK is the work horse. He is connected to the net like almost 24 hours a day! And this was his first breakdown , which is more than i can say for the much cared for and infinetly flacky,( i DONT EVEN WANT TO MENTION HIS NAME, PC)
So much for my weekend vacation.
After two weeks of shooting , I took a much needed break and just went to the new powerbooks branch. It was such a relief to just sit down and scan and strech my legs in the cool comfort of their couch.
I love their casual and relaxing atmospehere, specially after hiking and getting stuck in fiolages and getting bitten by insects that have been hardly catalogued by SIR RICHARD ATTENBOURGH.
I took a look see at their varied stocks and bought four books.
Reading is now a luxury that I dont even have. In between cutting and archiving I get to read a page or two and thats not what life is all about. One should be able to sit out in the open air with the sun above and a cool lemon drink beside you.
I used to read inside dark rooms with a single source of illumination.Gives a certain kind of mood for certain books but not all.besides i spend a lot of time in darkened rooms already so I need the change.
Selina has been choosen to lead the morning prayers for her class next week. She was chosen by her teachers because she screams in english fluently. Cess is in an uproar . Her worst nightmare has finally come to past. Selina with a mike in fromt of many parents and children leading them to the promise land.
CESS: " You know what she might do? "
FLIM: " Sing ABC? "
CESS: " She could launch into UNCLE FUCKER!OR KYLES MOM IS A BIG BAD BITCH. We dont knwo what she will do? "
FLIM: " Damn you're right.I better bring the videocam!This could be priceless! "
CESS: " Im serious! "
FLIM: " SO AM I! Whatever she' ll do, its going to be great! IN fact Im already shivering with anticipation. Will she be the angel and repeat the prayers you taught her or will she be the little rascal and shock the bejezzus out of every prude there! "
CESS: " Im really tense about this! "
Selina is playing in the background. She's wearing her dark jedi outfit.She then looks at us and smiles devilishly.
I cant wait....
So I elected to name my pcs as well. Now CARBONEK is the work horse. He is connected to the net like almost 24 hours a day! And this was his first breakdown , which is more than i can say for the much cared for and infinetly flacky,( i DONT EVEN WANT TO MENTION HIS NAME, PC)
So much for my weekend vacation.
After two weeks of shooting , I took a much needed break and just went to the new powerbooks branch. It was such a relief to just sit down and scan and strech my legs in the cool comfort of their couch.
I love their casual and relaxing atmospehere, specially after hiking and getting stuck in fiolages and getting bitten by insects that have been hardly catalogued by SIR RICHARD ATTENBOURGH.
I took a look see at their varied stocks and bought four books.
Reading is now a luxury that I dont even have. In between cutting and archiving I get to read a page or two and thats not what life is all about. One should be able to sit out in the open air with the sun above and a cool lemon drink beside you.
I used to read inside dark rooms with a single source of illumination.Gives a certain kind of mood for certain books but not all.besides i spend a lot of time in darkened rooms already so I need the change.
Selina has been choosen to lead the morning prayers for her class next week. She was chosen by her teachers because she screams in english fluently. Cess is in an uproar . Her worst nightmare has finally come to past. Selina with a mike in fromt of many parents and children leading them to the promise land.
CESS: " You know what she might do? "
FLIM: " Sing ABC? "
CESS: " She could launch into UNCLE FUCKER!OR KYLES MOM IS A BIG BAD BITCH. We dont knwo what she will do? "
FLIM: " Damn you're right.I better bring the videocam!This could be priceless! "
CESS: " Im serious! "
FLIM: " SO AM I! Whatever she' ll do, its going to be great! IN fact Im already shivering with anticipation. Will she be the angel and repeat the prayers you taught her or will she be the little rascal and shock the bejezzus out of every prude there! "
CESS: " Im really tense about this! "
Selina is playing in the background. She's wearing her dark jedi outfit.She then looks at us and smiles devilishly.
I cant wait....
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