Behind the scenes

As I wrote before I'm in contact with people in Sydney who are all into movie-making. This weekend I was at the set of a short movie called "The date" by Christian Reverchon. We've been shooting the whole day and I've got an acting role as a delivery man (no dirty postman scences, I promise, but if you have good postman jokes write a comment ;)). But mostly I was behind the camera behind the camera, taking stills of the set. I learned some new things and got some basic ideas of what you should look after when you shoot a movie, so overall a good day!

So what's "The date" about? I fear, I can't tell too much before it gets published but it is a romantic comedy and a mannequin plays a big role in it ;)

Read here about my other experiences I had with cinematographs in Sydney in My frist time at KINO and About coming back to work.

Sarah and the Mannequin, photobombed by Alis

Behind the scene

My first time at KINO

I've already written about that I am surrounded by people in Sydney who are all into filmmaking. So yesterday I've attended the 78th Sydney KINO (which is a very popular toppic in my circle of friends here). For 15$ we got pizza and two drinks of choice and nearly two hours of entertainment. Shortmovies from local and international producers were shown, all of them (should have) applied to the following rules:

• The movie must be not longer than 5 minutes.
• No advertisements. (I wonder if such obvious and cheap productplacement like in "Return of the Killertomatoes" with George Clooney would be allowed)
• Premier of the movie at KINO with the KINO logo in the end of the movie
• The movie must be maid for KINO

If one or more rules are broken by a filmmaker he or she gets challenged. Until the challenge is fullfilled (means screened at KINO) he is not allowed to show any other movie at KINO.

KINO is all around the world, not only in Sydney but also for example in Mauritius, in Hamburg and also in Vienna (next Screening on the 16th of January at the Schikaneder, check it out!).
Here is a list in which other citys KINO takes place.

The best about this event is that it is non-competitive but all about collaboration and networking with people who are interested in cinematogrophy as well. Newcomers are always welcome and it just feels like coming to an open family when you see how the people in the audience and the moderator are interacting and making fun of each other in a way you can only do it with people who trust and know each other well and may have even worked together.

The most outstanding movie from yesterday evening was produced in Hamburg during an annual collaboration weekend, where KINO-people come together to produce a complete movie within 48 hours.

Kino Rhapsody from HamburgerKino on Vimeo.

Go on reading what other experiences with movies I had in Sydney when I wrote About coming back to work.

About coming back to work

Sarah, actor and totally into the 20s and 30s.

 Back in Austria I worked as a party-photographer. It's an amazing job and I'm really glad that I got it as it is everything but easy to make money as a photographer. Especially if you don't have a portfolio and no one knows you (as a photographer).

Even though I loved my job it had some backdraws. My working hours were at the same time when my friends went out partying. Sometimes I even met someone I knew, some people I even haven't seen in years! But I couldn't stay too long chatting with them since I had to work.

As a result of this I prefered to leave my camera at home in this spare nights when I actually went out partying and just enjoyed it not to walk around quickly, annoying people with asking them for a photo...or getting anoyed by people who want more and more photos of themselves. Or the worst: people who tell me that I took a bad picture of them when I just thought "Man, I can't change your f*** face....!"

Shane, an independent director.
Doesn't he look like Walter White from Breaking Bad?

So when I came to Sydney I got in touch with a group of people who are totally into cinematography, acting and movies. Most of them attending an event called KINO, where short movies from independent and hobby directors are shown once in a month. The next one will be at the 6th of January (Click here for the Facebook-Event) and I'm really looking forward to it as I've only heard good things about it so far!

Getting involved in this network I got an invitation to the premieres of two movies called 'Bucks party' and 'Hens night' which are crossover movies about a couples last night in freedom and what happend to them. It's a little bit like Hangover but less...well...let's say there are better films out there - which might be because the movies are actually still in Postproduction but renting a cinema was cheaper this time of the year so they showed the movie earlier than they should have...

To come back to why I talked about my work as a party-photographer; there was an aftershowparty and I somehow ended up with my camera there - on the one hand assisting the official photographer of the event with the lighting, holding a slave-flash in the right (and sometimes in the wrong) angle but also taking pictures with my own camera without flash (because mine stopped working back the other day for some reason). 

Susanne, actor

In the beginning of the party I wasn't quite certain if it was a good idea to bring my camera with me but in the end I really enjoyed it as it was less stressful because it was only for fun and not as a job. All of the pictures in this post were taken at the party.

I'm now gonna stay a little bit longer in Sydney than expected and I already got in touch with two bands to take pictures at their concert. If you wanna have a look at my previous concert pictures, check out my G+ Profile (Click) which I'm gonna use as main platform to publish pictures and build up my portfolio.

Or you can even follow me on G+ or 'circle' me ;-p

Is there anything you would like me to write about or take pictures of in Sydney? Just leave me a comment ;)

Have a happy new year!