The thing I like about Sydney weather is that it is decisive. You’re not stuck wondering if its going to rain or not, because you know that it’s going to all come during in one torrential downpour.
So, what have I been up to? We completed the idents for ABC2 last week. I’m pretty happy with the result, but unfortunately multiple people have noted that it looks like a ‘powerball’ commercial. Aw, crap. This was unintentional on my part – it’s supposed to look like Monkey Magic, but I guess by having the 2 emerge from the ’stone egg’ it does give it a powerball-esque aesthetic.
Thursday was spent at the ABC having a sound mixing session for the idents which was pretty impressive watching the sound designer at work. (Plus this week’s celebrity sightings: Margaret and David from At the Movies and the one and only Rampaging Roy Slaven). Big shout-out to Peter Neville for doing the 70s-oriental-funk-synth soundtrack, too. So when I get the final sound mix back I’ll post the video.
On Friday the class all had a ‘farewell’ lunch down in Chinatown for the students that have finished the certificate course. Eleven hours later we finished… It was a long lunch, but on such a crappy day it couldn’t have been any better.
Some more shout-outs before I leave: Amy has just updated her hate-blog which is slowly gaining a small cult-following of AFTRS people. Adele finally updated her blog a while back with her tales of far-off countries and ‘Witness’ has continued to upload awesome images of Adelaide street art on his flickr account, reminding me that I haven’t uploaded any new photos for months…