Symi Sunday morning
Here we are, another Sunday morning and time to write tomorrow’s post. The wind has dropped. It was pretty blowy yesterday to say the least, all the shutters were shut and the house was buffeted all day and all evening. In the morning we managed a trip into Yialos to do some shopping and took a taxi back up (due to weight of shopping). This, as you will see from the photos, involved driving through the spray coming over the quayside as we drove along the south side of the harbour. The other photos from today were also taken on Saturday morning.
It was a weekend with some film news in it. A friend of mine is involved in trying to get a film to Berlin in time for an extended deadline on the entry to the Film Festival being shown there in a few days. This is nothing to do with ‘The Thirteenth’, but instead to do with an entirely different project. The experience does highlight the need for caution and care when putting a film together. All to do with having the right paperwork and there is a surprisingly huge amount of it, and sound files matching visuals, having various copies of the film in various projection aspects so it will show all large screens as well as small and a lot of other things that, in the case of this film, were not readily available. To be fair, this film was a last minute entry brought in to replace an existing film entry that had to pull out (had they had more warning the ‘missing’ processes would have been completed in time). I’ve not got all the details but I know that their production office spent Friday and Saturday couriering copies of the film to Los Angeles, and then finding someone to upload it as the servers in the UK were not fast enough. Unfortunately, there were still some issues and so the film had to be finalised by Sunday and a copy flown, with a person, to Berlin to be presented. As I write this is still going on. But there is a point to mentioning this…
And that is to highlight the need to be thorough, which ‘The Thirteenth’ producers are being with the visuals and sound design. The visuals on the film have been completed now apart from the credits, and the music and sound are being finalised methodically. So, if you were wondering what was happening with ‘The Film’ as it’s become known around here, the news still seems to be that it’s in the sound stage, which involves the soundtrack and the musical soundtrack. Then comes the colour grading and then comes the paperwork. It’s happening, I am told, but cautiously so as to avoid just these kinds of problems in the future.
The other Sunday morning news is that Jack, the Alarm Cat, has gone for one of his wanders again. He had been a bit bored over the last week, and it looked like he was anxious to get out and about. Whereas he usually sleeps in or around the house all day (and night), recently he has been wanting to get on to the balcony to look at the views as if he wanted to get out there and join whatever party the local cats were throwing. On Friday, as one of us popped up to the bins to feed the strays, he slipped out of the gate (his only way out) and we’ve not seen him since. He’s often sat there looking at the open gate and not bothered to go out even if we have left it open all day, but on Friday he was clearly in the mood to travel. So later today, if he’s not back, we may go back to our old house to see if, after a year of living here, he has popped back there to see if lunch is ready. I’m sure he’s fine and if he can find his way there he will be able to find his way back here. Especially as our old house now no longer has a roof, as renovations are underway.
So, there will be more news on Jack as it breaks, if it breaks, and on the film if and when I get some, and of course the weather. I’ve also been writing, as you would have seen from Saturday’s post, and that short story is still to be finished, but I’ve also done some more Donkey work, slogging away at putting the words around the ‘everything else’ that this writing project already has: characters, plot, action, development etc. It’s a long job and the fun side of writing the story has already happened. That is, the plotting and development. Now I have to be in pure ‘adding word’ mode as I push on with it. So, with the shutters still closed (as there’s a slight breeze and it’s a cold one), and the gate open should the AC return of his own accord, I must now turn to the Donkeys folder and write at least another 3,000 words. So, happy Monday to you and here’s to the week ahead.
