Sunday the 30th.

Today we found an old car in the forest.

I'm just glad they didn't contract tetanus.

is this the start of me 'going places'?

"Congratulations Kelly! After a lot of competition and difficult decisions by the whole visual arts department, we are pleased to announce that your work "Dino 1" and "Dino2" has been submitted as one of only 4 entries allowed by a school in the 2009 Creative Generations Awards.

The Awards draw over 600 entries from across the state each year and your work will be viewed by a panel of teachers in the next week or so to determine if it will be shortlisted through to the final competition and eventually selected to be part of the exhibition of about 40 works to be part of the State Wide Exhibition that exhibits in GoMa (Gallery of Modern Art) in Brisbane. If your work should be selected as part of the State Wide exhibition (which we at Trinity Bay will have our fingers crossed for!) you will get the opportunity to travel down to Brisbane in September holidays for a full week of workshops with some of Queensland's top artists on site at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) and QUT. You will also be presented with your award by the Minister for Education at a ceremony to celebrate your success. Your work will tour around the state throughout 2010.

We wish you all the very best luck in continuing in the competition."

I'm already heading down to Brisbane next Sunday for the week long Creative Generation for Film and New Media workshop, and I'm so excited, I can't even find words good enough to describe my emotions :'D I'll be taking heaps of photos, that's for sure.

If I get chosen to this as well, I think I may combust from happiness.

I have in my possession

a Holga 120 CFN!



only for the duration these school holidays but I've been reading various online snippets about it and its versatility and I'm SO EXCITED to start using it! I need to clean it a little bit, and stick batteries in it, and I'm sort of scared that I won't have enough $$ for film, but I really need to visit my best friend again and I'd love to get some photos up there and I'll hopefully be going to the Atherton Show, so.. hmm. I need another job.

Went out last night with Laura and Ellie, had fun, and don't feel hungover or sickly at all! I. am. happy.

Kayla and myself are planning a secret charade, I can't wait to get into it. SNEAKY CHILDREN!

I don't blog much anymore, but I haven't really been up to much. I'll try and be more interesting these holidays.

Speaking of which, have a lovely and safe holiday, my dear readers, and don't get yourself into too much trouble!

xx.

why are all my days..

so lovely lately? today I rang up Leigh Boswell and we are OFFICIALLY! (unless it rains) starting filming my ftv short film this Saturday morning; excited!? well I am :)

ALSO my other short film (which is still in the planning stages), is getting promotion from across the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY! my lovely dear friends Whisperwolves have been telling kids about my film at their shows, and it doesn't even have a title yet! I'm so damn lucky to have them on board, please listen to their music, it's gorgeous.


Saturday afternoon I'll be catching a bus up to Atherton again and seeing Rikki! How I miss her already! I love Atherton, it's so much better than Cairns. I kind of want to move there next year..

Today my form/english teacher made a bet with me. He'll get all of his hair spray painted pink for Colour For A Cure, if I get mine done all blue. My hair is already quite red, so it'll go.. purple? I don't care, if I get to see the English Head of Department, a published author and all round respected man get his hair coloured hot pink, well that's something worth taking a photo of :)

I'm Pretty Bad With Thinking of Dialoge

So what I've planned to do is use snippets from random conversations I overhear (by accident of course, I don't purposely stalk people and record their conversations).

Yesterday I was on the bus and these two people were talking about films, and it went something like this:

Girl: So do you like horror films?
Boy: Umm.. I don't know? What do you classify as horror?
Girl: Well what do YOU think horror is?
Boy: Rip slash tear?
Girl: Like Chucky or Saw or.. what?
Boy: I'm not sure, because there's horror, then there's thriller.
Girl: Well then, how do you know there's a difference?
Boy: People dying. That's horrific and that's horror.

Hahah! I want to use that somewhere in my film, with modifications of course.

xx.

More News!

And now, adding to the excitement of my film production, I have a band on board to help write the soundtrack! I'll be using one of their already-written songs for the opening credits or such, and they've also offered to write some instrumental pieces for the in-betweens. Isn't that great? To me, that's amazing. I'm so thankful for it. Please have a listen to this FANTASTIC Australian band: Whisperwolves.



xx.

My New Project

I'm going to make a film! I don't yet know for sure if it's going to be a short film or what, but whenever I pick up my pen to start writing the script more, I think of more scenes and more things to happen, and it's all getting very extensive but also very exciting. I'm very excited! I can barely describe it. Here's a short and somewhat low-register version of the plot:

Tristan Tyne is a quiet highschool student, and his thoughts are as much a part of the film as Tristan himself. Tristan is also somewhat of a follower of his best friend Alex Crow. Desperate to make the most of their last weekend left of Christmas holidays, Alex convinces Tristan to come to a party with him. For the first time, he experiences drugs and alcohol, and his mind and thoughts are quickly lost as he loses sobriety. After the party, Alex takes his friend home, and puts him to bed. Tristan wakes up, and his mind is back. He gets dressed for school, has breakfast, then gets on his bike and rides down the road- going back to school.

I've been updating progress through bulletins on Myspace, when really, I should be writing an online diary on here. I'm going to do that from now on.

But through my bulletin postings, I've gotten a fair few responses from people who're interested in playing characters, which is fantastic! I still haven't found a lead though, and won't rest until I find someone who suits the role, and not just any old last resort.

Once again, I'm very excited!

xx.