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Night shoot
The next two days there will be a night shoot. For us (2nd unit) we have to be at a 1st unit shoot, there is a stunt involved, so they need all the hands they can get. Multiple cameras etc. It is going to be a long night and it it pretty cold here at…
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Hattingh syndrome
Every morning before sunrise (6:20 at the moment) My boss Jeremy Hattingh is hunting for the perfect sunrise which he is shooting with his Canon D20. He makes a time-laps with raw images so he can put it together for the movie. Not every morning is a good one so he is there every day…
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Body double time!
Second Unit The last 3 days I am running and driving around as a double. Our team second unit has to make the shots where first unit do does have time for. For example: main character drives trough the forrest, main character approach in distance cloud of red dust, etc. Well as it always happens…
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To kill 40 Crayfish
Picture this, waking up sunday morning, had some breakfast, what to do? Claus monster, Peter Adam the editor and myself went to 2nd beach to hunt for crayfish (langustines).Lucky for us you can buy big ones for 10 rand (illegal to transport). But a bit much for 10 people to eat, we made a bisque…
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First day of principal photography
Early call, lost of things to do VFX on the set, a restaurant scene.We had a nice and fruitful day, everything we planned worked, time flies when your working.So much to say so little time, today day two no VFX needed on set but I took a peek, big crew, big camera’s lots of extra’s.
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Baking cakes
Tomorrow is the big day, first day of shooting in SA.First thing is a restaurant breakfast scene where one of the actors is getting a piece of cake. But, no cakes prepared yet Karel asked me, FIR International to the rescue.Spend 4 hours decorating cakes, 3 black forrest cakes, 2 chocolate granace cakes, 2 fake (plastic casing)…
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Every day good food
It is not a secret at all, Thea our host and George her son who actually lives in Boston USA are taking very good care of us. Yesterday there was a nice Wilbert goodbye party at Agate terrace (the beach where we caught the crayfish). A big bonfire, drinks, food, nice people and Thea who is just throwing big peaces of meat (rumb)…
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Day off
Today I took a day off, relax, getting better. I must say it works, a bit of sleeping taking some pictures with my new camera. One of my very good idea’s. Tonight I’m going to cook simple pasta al’olio, George bought some crayfish (not again 🙂 ) and Anet & Ulla are buying some local beef…
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My New Camera
So my boss Jeremy Hattingh convinced me that it would be better for me that I can take plates and stills with the same kind of camera he had. He bought one for me second hand and it became a Canon 20D with double battery etc. I was so used to take little quick snaps…
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Sick Bastard
Yesterday I had another apointment with Dr. D. O’Mahony. And today I had to take some Xray’s of my chest, conclution:Pneumonia.So, with some anti-biotic I will be better pretty soon. Dus voor de familie, ze hebben longontsteking bij mij geconstateerd en met antibiotica moet ik daar weer snel vanafkomen.Het is dus even afwachten.