The Knife - Monday, Gabor's place

After Gabor had finished his presentation, Greg, Tam and I went over to his place to finish the last two disks. We chatted and watched a movie while the download happened. Greg had advised me to copy the files on to my computer as well so that I can help Gabor with the edit. Gabor at the beginning had been under the impression that he would only have a 3 minute film to edit, but it was now looking like it would be around 15 minutes, so the money we had arranged for him was looking a little budget. Luckily it turns out that we've got a little more money left over from the budget and will be able to pay a bit more, but if I can help by writting down all the time codes of the good footage, it will defintely make Gabor's job much easier. Greg and Tam said goodbye and that was sad, but I had a feeling that I would see them again soon, so I wasn't too emotional! Still, we'd spent a really good weekend working together, so it was sad to see them going now. I said bye to Gabor and arranged to catch up with him on Sunday to go over the footage. Now all I need to do is write up the report, go through the footage, and do my presentation. Easy!

The Knife - Sunday, finishing up at the flat

Eventually we finished the shoot at the flat. Things went well, but I certainly know to pick a location carefully next time - the noise meant that the footage wasn't perfect, but at least we had enough room to move around in. Everyone left in good spirits. Greg, Tam and I went to Gabor's place to copy the footage on to his computer. We still couldn't get it across. Greg's camera is a professional broadcast camera, and it was difficult to find the right drivers to get it to work. Eventually we got it connected to Gabor's mac and started the copy - about an hour for each disk. It was already midnight, Greg took Tamara home and came back after the first disk had copied. Then we did the second disk. Gabor had a presentation to do the next day, so I didn't want to keep him up too late. We left around 2am and went back to Mum's place. We arranged to come back on Monday to finish the copy. I felt bad about this - I didn't want Greg and Tamara to have to stay for another night - they had planned to be back in Hamilton for Tamara's course at 11am.

The Knife - Sunday, 7pm, pizza

Me eating pizza and explaining about the noise problems.



Corey is happy, this is not staged. Honest.



Greg confesses a heroine addiction and Tam finally makes it to the other side of the camera.



Tamara saying good stuff about me: wants dessert.



Aamey liked the rap at Unitec, and the pizza.



Sara wants to be just like Simon Clark. Also enjoys eating pizza.

The Knife - Sunday, 4pm at the Kingsland flat

It was amazing what Colin, Aamey and Corey had done to the flat living room this morning. They had come into the flat, while we were filming John at YouthLaw, and made it look like a Samoan home, wow it looked great!



Next we had to film the "dining room" scene, we put the blinds down and put a deuvet over the windows to keep the sound and sunlight out - it was meant to be night time.

We had some serious issues with the noise, we were on a bus route, near a train station and the windows were leubers (sp?) so the sound came into the living room and made it hard to film anything. The traffic was constantly going, so we would often have to film the same line 20 times before it was ok with no interruption.

It was hard to manage my flatmates as well, I tried to get them into a room so their noise wouldn't come through on the film as well, this obviously pissed them off.

By far this was the hardest scene to manage. But we got pizza, and this made everything better!

The Knife - Sunday, finishing up at Unitec

We finished up at Unitec around 3:30pm, just waiting for security to come and lock everything up before going to my flat for the dining room scene.

The Knife - Sunday 1pm at Unitec

Greg, Tam and I stopped off at Kebabs on Queen on the way to Unitec. We were running a bit late, so I called Grahame to let him know, and called security to make sure there wouldn't be any delays once we got there.

We did the Principal's office scene without any problems, though I was getting tired after a big lunch. I was getting cranky and just wanted to go back to bed by now!

Luckily, at the end of the Principal's office scene, we did Grahame's rap, which was funny as. I hadn't planned it at all, but based on the script, Grahame had made a rap about the story, it was funny seeing an old guy with a cap on backwards and a stereo on his shoulders, rapping. It totally picked my spirits up and was ready to keep going!

The Knife - Sunday morning - John Hancock

We got into recording John, he's the senior solictor at YouthLaw, and I wanted him to talk about various aspects of the scenario I'd written into the script. He would be the "official" voice, the voice of reason. What he said was meant to reinforce ideas and concepts that were in the film, this is the stuff that the youth workers would pay attention to.

My film project had been given to me by Jeanie (Project manager) and Harvena (Lawyer). The module I was working on was Harvena's, she'd created the rest of the resources. I was pissed off when I found out that no one had prepared anything for John to say today. I'd given all the Lawyers at YouthLaw time to prepare some content for John to go from, even given examples of the types of things he might want to say. But despite my attempts to get anyone to write down a few sentences, John arrived with nothing prepared for him. Actually, he'd asked Jeanie if he should prepare something, but she'd said that he could just speak from the top of his head. This pissed me off, because it went against what I'd originally asked, which was for somebody to prepare some content for him to say. I couldn't make the content because I'm not a lawyer.


It didn't quite work, we had to do quite a few takes before we got something that sounded good and was legally correct. The whole time, we had kept a relaxed attitude towards everything, but when we went over the 12pm mark, we had to hurry things along, so that Greg, Tam and I could have lunch before going back to Unitec on time.