Matchstick Women and Man

This week we interviewed a French backpacker near BG1. We first tried to interview a person from the boat company near school, but the only person who would've otherwise been willing to be interviewed had a terrible rash and told us that most groups try to interview them every single year. Understandable that most of them were utterly tired of this. We continued carrying the equipment around, and only after a few minutes of walking Pien spotted an interesting looking young man. He agreed to be interviewed and even waited for the longest time while we were hunting down an audio cable (that we had with us the entire time). We then asked him some questions that he answered despite being really insecure about his English. He told us that he had walked all the way from rural France to Amsterdam and was going to continue his travels until he would arrive in Norway. He told that he was doing this to take a break in his studies. It was interesting filming him, but at the same time we wis...

In the morning all was well. After the workgroup with Tom, Cathy and Julija headed to BG1 to edit our fiction film. Leyla, Pien and I took on a path to Cafe de Jaren to brainstorm ideas for our second documentary. We drank coffee and came up with the idea of documenting the Little Plant Pantry. Happy with our finding, we started doing research for both documentary ideas. Suddenly we started receiving ominous messages from Julija and Cathy. Editing was not going well. We finished our sandwiches and hurried to BG1 to look into the difficult situation.  We talked it through, and will just have to work on the fiction film for a bit longer than expected. Bad news - but nothing we could not handle.  -Rosa

So far so good! During weeks 5 and 6 of the film practices course we have rehearsed scenes, practiced lines and done most (if not all) of the shooting in different parts of the city of Amsterdam. It has been an interesting process with a lot of disagreements, but also moments of common happiness with what we have gotten done so far. Through our mistakes we've had some great learning opportunities. Our recent lessons include the importance of keeping up with the  schedule and being well prepared with props before each shoot. Personally, it has been a new challenge to act in front of a camera. Many times I was told to do less, which is not always easy whilst most of my experience is from very dramatic theater productions.our -Rosa 

Today we met at 9 to start rehearsing our scenes.  The first scene we rehearsed was our bathroom scene. In this scene we see liz who is suffering from anorexia, getting out of the toilet, while she just puked. Her best friend Jess is outside the bathroom and hears some weird noise coming out of the toilet.  We filmed this scene in the bathroom by BG1. We filmed it from two sides, so we could see which side would provide us with better lightning. In this scene, we have a master shot and a close up, of the two talking. The rehearsing went fine, and we were very pleased with the lighting. The sound went okay too, however we wil probably record the sound of her puking outside the scene.  The second scene we rehearsed, was in the building were the cafe prisma is located. In this scene Jess gets confronted by bullies. For this scene we decided when watching everything back, that we might want to change the shot.  First we were thinking of shooting this scene from ...