jovanka

Morning. I am in a good mood today except for the fact that I have to go to work and work on quite possibly the shittiest explosion I have ever seen. I am supposed to be recreating the Halifax Harbour explosion. It was the largest man made explosion in history until the atomic bomb. By man made I mean two ships collided in the bay, one of them being an oil tanker and caught fire. All of the locals came out to the water to watch the catastrophe when BOOM.......the tanker exploded and thousands of people were killled. The gigantic anchor was found 2 miles away. Many people were blinded by shattering glass as they watched out their windows from miles away.

Now, the only thing they gave me was some areal photographs of the harbour from the early 1920s. They needed to be pieced together and they shot some lameo fx stuff so I am looking to my stock footage library of explosions, fire and debris to create this overhead explosion shot. I hate doing stuff of this magnitude for documentaries that have NO MONEY. I always end up hating the final product. Thankfully they are pretty easily impressed. I showed them a "temp" and they were really happy except one thing. And here is the bane of my existence:

I have done the shot in black and white cos the BG plate matte painting of the areal photos I have made is in b&w. The explosion looks way better in b&w cos of this and I had convinced the director it should stay that way. Not to mention the rest of the footage they have is b&w. Now some asshole producer thinks it would be a good idea to leave the explosions in colour while the BG plate is in b&w. Please god have me hit by a bus on my way to work so they don't force me to do this. I am already, in my opinion "polishing a turd" and now they want to make it uglier. Why oh why are they doing this to me?

See what I meant about having the visually ignorant in charge of the money ruining all love I have for my job? If I have any talent at all, alot of the time it gets lost on the guys with the money. They have their shitty visions that I almost always have to concede to. BAH! Thanks for listening. On to something more fun.....


HORROR MOVIE "NAME THAT VICTIM" GAME:

Ok today we're gonna play a little "Name That Victim"... I tell you some details of thier gory death and you tell me who they are and from what film...Ready? I'll give you an extra hint in this one since its the first of its kind. I dunno why I am always going so easy on you people (maybe cos I secretly love you all!)

His face was taken from him in a rather gruesome manner of slow peeling in a town by the sea.........