A Savaege Blog?

I bought a Canon 350D (Digital Rebel XT in the US) online from England last week and it arrived Tuesday but I hadn’t got around to ordering a memory card for when it arrived.

So I went onto Viking Direct to order my card as well as a new flash drive and a USB cable around 7 o’clock Tuesday evening. They say that you have delivery next day if you order before 8pm, so I did that.

Wednesday came and went without any sign of my delivery, but I though well it was almost 8 before I finished my order and it had to come from Dublin (afaik) down to Cork, so I said I’d let it pass and wait until the following day.

So today at around 3:30 and with no sign of my delivery I said I’d ring them up and find out what the story is. I rang up and someone answered yet said there was no one to take my call. I left my name and number and she said someone would get back to me. Never heard anything back.

I’ve been ordering through Viking for a while now for the company I work for and always receive the order the following day. Then when I open an account with Viking back in January I ordered some furniture (as they had some good deals) and some office stationary.

The stationary arrived the following day but say allow 14 days for furniture. 21 days on I had received no furniture so I called them up. Apparently they didn’t know where it went to. After numerous calls it finally arrived about 2 weeks ago minus 1 item.

Tuesday I was a bit wary ordering from them as I was still awaiting an item I had ordered on January 11th. But as it as only a memory card, a flash drive and USB cable and they always seem to deliver that kind of stuff the following day and I wanted to start taking pictures on my new Digital SLR straight away I went ahead with the order. Hmm still my camera awaits to be tested.

If nothing arrives tomorrow I pity the person I get onto in customer service….

Since every Tom, Dick and Harry seems to doing this blogging thing I though I might as well have a crack at it too, see what all this fuss is about.

…Well to be honest this is about the second time I’ve had a pop at it… last one I only made two entries and sort of forgot I had so I give it another go…

This is primarily going to be about filmmaking and my attempts to make a career in the film industry.

Last May I finished a three course on film, TV and video production. During the three years my main roles in the student films were in the Camera Lighting Departments and I didn’t really get a chance to try my hand at directing (well I did but it was crap so we’ll say I didn’t).

So when I finished I wanted to keep at it and get a short film made that I had written. My attempts during the summer failed as I couldn’t assemble a crew that could get time of work and work for free so I left it go for the time being and started to concentrate on developing other projects.

During the tenth anniversary of the course I did, I got talking to the head of the course and she said how she had liked my script. I had pitched it during the year for the 3rd year 16mm shoots but failed to make it as there was only three made and about 17 pitched. The top three were voted by all the students in the three years and as far as I know I came in about fifth.

Anyway she said how she liked the script and that I should go ahead and make it and use the first year students through their work experience as crew. Plus I would have access to the college equipment.

So I went ahead with the production and got a few people that I went to college with to man the EOD’s but I would have liked to get a few more as there was a lot of set dressing needed and I failed to get a production designer.

Production started at the start of December with a crew of only ten. A hectic four days of shooting finished late on a Friday night with only three of the crew remaining as we got through the last of the scenes with the main actor which myself doubling as Boom Op.

It was shot on HDV and so I was able to start editing once I had added the extra 2GB to my computer.

However I haven’t yet finished the edit, as there are some lighting and sound issues which need sorting.

…I’m bored now so I think I’ll go over and stand over there…