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* We survived our rent inspection

* Lex has survived his fourth tooth

( Nothing of importance, just a collection of stuff from the last month or so, and one picture. )

Be meaning to write about this since last week. Collected my DVD from the mockumentary. And they gave me a t-shirt! Very cool! I think they were rather thrown by how enthusiastic I was to get a Senggol T-shirt, but then again, they don't know me very well :)

I have to be honest though. I love the t-shirt but it's not quite right. It says "Senggol Frenzy" but it has three figures standing in the Sanggol triangle. Which looks less like a frenzy and more like a polite conversation. However, that's being picky and I really love the shirt *grin*

Now to the flick. I didn't cringe watching myself in this one. All I had to do was deliver bullshit with a straight face, which I'm sure many of you would say is pretty natural for me. They also had me do a bunch of adlibs, and one of those got into the DVD. Sadly it wasn't the ones where I talked about Mel "The Rock" Kosick and Ken "The Clown" McCaw, but there you go.

All up, I'm really impressed with the DVD. It looks very, very good. It feels like a real behind the scenes style doco and it looks great. It's good enough that I think it would take people a minute or two to realise it's not real. The script is clever and most of the performances are quite good.

The one thing I was worried may have hurt the film was that in the script many scenes ended with a gag. Given it was meant to be done straight, I was worried that this may spoil the effect. However the edit on the DVD loses all but one of these gags and I think it really helps the production. The gags now appear in the closing credits, with the best at the end, played to perfection by the actress. I also loved the two Senggol fans. Their final gag is pretty darn good as well.

There are only two actors I think are a bit weak in it, and that's more because they seem to be playing for laughs rather than playing straight. They aren't bad, it's just their delivery is out with the overall tone. The only other problem is that it's not made terribly clear as to what made Jack break. I know, but I've read the script. A couple of the edits are a bit rough but these are minor complaints. Over all, it looks slick and professional.

Very proud to have been a part of this one.

I went for a part in a student mockumentory last week. It was about a sport called Senggol and they wanted people who could adlib and be spontaneous. I sent them all the usual details and and then added this in, for a bit of fun and to show them I could come up with silly bulldust -

Plus my grandfather, Gordon Oz, played Senggol way back in the early days when there were less rules to the sport. He was brutal, they used to call him the white terrier. The nickname came out of an early match where he won by calling his bull terrier and having it attack his opponent. There was nothing in the rules to say it was illegal, so he won the match. About a year later they added the 'no attack dogs' rule. Granddad said the sport went downhill after that, became too commercial.

So, I get an audition and the folks are really nice. We're chatting around and I read for a couple of parts and they ask me if I want to be the sports commentator. Yay! As we're chatting, suddenly one of them asks, in a halting way, if what I wrote about my grandfather was real or made up. I told them it was made-up.

The relief that washed through the room was amazing! I had thrown them into confusion - they were sure that Senggol was made up but then they get a guy talking about his family history with the thing and suddenly they just weren't sure any more. They started asking about, and researching again, trying to see if anyone else knew about this sport called Senggol, terrified that they'd have to make huge changes.

We all had a good laugh after that - though I think mine was still a less stressed one :)

A dark, nasty little script by David Jackson, who worked as Assistant Director to Tom Kinsman on Burley. Apparently he thought I'd be good in the role of the bartender in The Snuff Machine but had already cast somebody else. Fortunately for me, winged blue monkeys kidnapped the other guy and David asked me if I'd like to do it. So I turned up to The Soak on Tuesday for filming. ( A Meg and a bit of pics below the cut... )

This one is by far the biggest student film I've done. We had make-up, several locations and quite a few extras. I also played two separate roles! I'm missing a whole bunch of names on this one, so fill-ins would be lovely, thank you.
( Half a Meg of pics below the cut... )

Okay, I'm still stuffed from shooting Dudes of Doom, to the point where I opted out of today's committee meetings so I could sleep in. Didn't work, I was awake by 8:30 and feeling stuffed.

Anyway, below the cut is a bunch of piccies taken from one of the student films I've done over the last couple of few weeks. They'll all be done as thumbnail links to Imageshack. Got some catching up to do on these, I've done two since this one! No details as to the plot, you can find that out during the Danny Oz film festival...( Just over half a meg of pics below the cut... )