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Dynamic Kino 2013 - Day 1.2 & 1.3, It ended before it began

In sum, this short instalment of KinoDynamique did not contain any special events for me, other than seeing a lot of old acquaintances as well as the usual exhausting work.

One project that I was planned for had to change plans, so the beginning was essentially about waiting until the one big project I was assigned to started. This one then brought us to a shooting in a park during rain on day 2, although I managed to stay under an umbrella for the most part during the rain. (In the final film, hardly any of my audio recordings from that were used...)
In the night, while walking to our final set, we came a cross an old woman that seemed lost. She asked for directions and through the following exchange we found out she lost her handbag with all her belongings. We called the police to help her out and a few minutes later, a patrol car arrived and they took her with them.

Our final set that night was in a hallway of a housing block. It took some time for the directors and actors to rehearse the sequence. When we finally got to record the whole thing, after the second take at 2am, sure enough a security guard asked us to leave. We then moved to a public place, rehearsed again and then recorded it. I got home under the singing of the morning birds.

Day 3 was quite uneventful as well, with only one quickie recording for me. At least this quickie got good laughs at the screening. The screening itself was quite nice as well, with about 12 films. The film I worked on nearly didn't make it in time, but worked out fine. I didn't stay long at the party afterwards. 

I went into the one-session-only kabaret with neutral expectations - and to some extent, I'm still neutral about it after it's done. One the one hand for example, projects had to be finished in time - there was no next session to delay to, which happened all the time in the longer kabarets. On the other hand, there is not too much interaction with other people than the ones on your project. The kinolab, the base for the kabaret, was mostly empty.

What made the most fun was actually the quickie, a work of roughly 2-3 hours. I guess the key would be to focus only on quickies in such formats. Otherwise it simply feels like any other student project, crammed into a weekend with staying awake late into the nights. That's something to consider for the next one that they are planning.

Dynamic Kino 2013 - Day 1.2, Trailer

It has been some time since I returned home at the beginning of dawn of a new day, but, custom as delays are at such short film projects, I came home at 4:30am today. Combined with the ususal "oversleeping" I don't have time to provide a proper entry.

In short, we filmed in both rain and sunshine, helped an old woman find back home and were warned to film on private property at night. Screening is today evening, let's see what's going to happen.

Es ist schon etwas her, dass ich zum Anbruch der Morgendämmerung nach Hause kam, aber, wie solche Verzögerungen bei diesen Kurzfilmprojekten üblich sind, bin ich heute erst um 4:30 in der Früh nach Hause gekommen. Zusammen mit dem typischen "Verschlafen" habe ich nun keine Zeit einen vollständigen Eintrag zu liefern.

In kurzen Worten, wir drehten sowohl im Regen als auch der Sonne, halfen einer alten Frau nach Hause zu kommen und wurden verwarnt auf einem Privatgrundstück in der Nacht zu drehen. Screening ist heute Abend, mal sehen was passieren wird.

Dynamic Kino 2013 - Day 1.1, Smaller, faster, less work

It's that time of the year again, although there will be several this year. Creating short films in only a few hours. But this year they organized the sessions to be only one on a weekend, with two more happening later this year.

With the smaller advertising the turnout is smaller, with only about 50 people participating. As always, many old faces and a few new ones as well. With only two sound engineers we are highly requested and getting all requests into a schedule as always. One of the organizers said he was relieved when he saw my registration.

While waiting for my first project to start, I already recorded a first voice-over. When the director arrived in the evening, we agreed to use the other sound engineer, which just returned, so that I can go to sleep to be ready for shooting today morning. And now I received a message that they could continue only in the afternoon today, so they can't use me since I'm already booked for a second project for that time. Planning and overtimes as usual at the kino kabaret ;)

In essence a calm start and meeting old acquaintances. There are also some pictures of the production meeting online here (with an unfortunate picture of me ;).

Es ist wieder diese Zeit des Jahres, obwohl es dieses Jahr mehrere geben wird. Kurzfilme in nur kurzer Zeit erstellen. Aber dieses Jahr haben sie die Runden so organisiert, dass nur eine an einem Wochenende gemacht wird, mit zwei weiteren später im Jahr.

Mit kleinerer Werbung ist der Ansturm auch kleiner, mit ungefähr 50 Leuten teilnehmend. Wie immer gibt es viele alte Gesichter sowie ein paar neue zu sehen. Mit nur zwei Tontechniker sind wir gefragt und alle Anfragen in einem Terminplan zu bringen ist wie immer schwierig. Einer der Organisatoren meinte, dass er erleichtert war, als er meine Registrierung sah.

Wärend ich auf den Start des ersten Projekts wartete, nahm ich schnell eine Sprachaufnahme auf. Als die Regisseurin endlich am Abend kam um zu starten, hatten wir uns geeinigt den anderen Tontechniker, der ebenfalls gerade kam, einzusetzen, damit ich schlafen gehen konnte um fit für den weiteren Dreh heute Morgen zu sein. Und jetzt hatte ich die Nachricht erhalten, dass sie erst am Nachmittag weiter drehen würden und mich somit nicht mehr einsetzen konnten, da ich schon für ein zweites Projekt gebucht bin. Planung und Verzüge wie immer am Kino Kabaret ;)

In Summe ein ruhiger Start und Treffen alter Bekannter. Es gibt auch schon erste Bilder vom Produktionsmeeting online hier (mit einem unglücklichen Bild von mir ;).