A little update

My oh my how fast the time is flying by, and obvious I haven`t been any good on the blog updates lately. I think its cos the everyday life suddenly slapped me in the face after the semester break and it has pretty much been uni-uni-uni-uni. But I`m finally done with my BA (unless ive failed some of the units, which i really hope i didnt), only took me 5 years, haha - so bring on the world.

So what has happened since the last time? Hmm..

Well my neighbours tree fell down even if it wasnt that windy outside. I found it hilarious cos it was blocking the driveway and my neighbour looked very confused - ofc I had to go get my camera and take a few pics ;)

Me and Kristine

I had my second round of the friday night dinner. Wanted to make oven baked salmon but someone (wont mention name, but he is the aussie ^^) refused to eat fish, so I got Kristine (Girl from Stavanger in my class) to help me to make homemade meatballs the norwegian style all the way from scratch - they tasted quite good, and the others were happy, so ofc I was happy as well.
Oh and that reminds me. Siri (girl in my class from Stavanger), Tonje (Siris sister whos working in melbs) and me made potato dumplings (raspeballer) - which wasnt that successfull as they dont have half the ingredients we wanted - BUT it still tasted freakin good, and I know for sure thats the first thing my mum gotta make for me when I get home. I just changed my tickets so Im coming home on the 3rd of February btw, so its just for all of you to meet me at the airport whenever it is I`m landing :D

Soheil and Jon

Since Marie, Segolene, Sam, Pierre, Shelley and the rest of the crazy people left me after the first semester, and I was too lazy in the introduction week this semester to find new people I have been hanging out alot with the Norwegian people from my class. We are actually 9 (!!) Norwegians in my class. We have had alot of late nights at uni doing assignments, been going to the movies almost once a week, hanging at Jon and Bård`s place to make food and play wiii - Which I`m actually not that bad in :D and its really fun! Jon also makes the best homemade salsa Ive ever had, and is not a bad chef at all - so I cant complain :)

Soheil and Siri

Ollie, Apsara and me also managed to get tickets to the BEP concert which I think despite the bad critics was really good. Will.i.am put up a really good show, and I enjoyed it from the very start till the end. An American group named LMFAO was the support band and they were freakin me hilarious. After the concert we met up with a bunch of people in the city, so all in all it was a very good night :) And as Ollie and me always roll, we had pretty good spots close to the stage this time as well :D So even I without my glasses could se what was happening. hehehehe

Marielle, Kristina and Anne Lene

I also finally got the first visitors down here. Anno and co are spending 10 months in Australia backpacking and they spent a week here in melbs with me :) Since Anno also love me very much she brought me food from home, a letter from my dad and norwegian cigarettes - it felt like christmas eve!! Only bad thing was they came here before I was done with uni, so now i gotta start travelling after them afterwards unless they come back to do the Great Ocean Road with me and Anniken who is coming on hols down here in a week!!!! its gonna be legendary :D

Now that I got hols and gonna start to travel I`ll try to update my blog a bit more often, as it probably gonna happen some more exciting things now then what it has been the last months (being in the editing suits might be fun, but that not intresting to blog about i think, :P ). So cherrios my friends, missing you people back home! if i win the lottery within the next 30 days I`ll drop by in London for PKRL3 as well ;)

peace xox

Roadtrippin`Queensland! Part I

The gang wide awake after some expressos at T&T`s place before we cabbed it to the airport.
Breakfast in Cairns before we went to get the camper.. I had been shopping flags for our travels :)
Mossman Gorge - Swimming with the crocks in the middle of the rainforest!
The viewpoint in Mossman Gorge.

Breakfast at an amazing viewpoint!
My regular spot in the car.. really chilled can you say ;)

Roadtrippin`Queensland! Intro

Semesterbreak, after alot of hard studying, frustration, late evenings and alot of coffee we decided we needed a break.. Melboune was getting to cold, we needed some sun on our bodies! what happens when one columbian, one german, one dutch and one norwegian decide to go roadtrippin.. ? stay tuned ;)
fluffy, our camper for 12 days :) Tim and Ollie are the experiend ones while me and Tomas are virigns at the camping life.. (Not that our camper was bad tho.. we got a micro, waterboiler, toaster etcetc :) ) as soon as we picked her up in carins it was just to hit the roads! Tim and Ollie were the designated drivers, while me and tomas were the sleeping monsters in the back of the camper who only woke up for beer, food and toiletbreaks :P
Oh and yeah.. our plan.. 22nd of june we flew into cairns, 4th of July we flew back to melbourne from brizzy - inbetween.. hmm.. we wanted to see something :):) this region is what we had to work on.. we went from cape tribulation in the north till brisbane in the south.. all in all we drove 2400km with the camper + we had a 3 day boattrip in the whitsundays and rented a 4wd for 3 days on fraser island.

Cos we have experiences so much on this trip ill split it in to different blog posts :) i just need to get out of bed, have a nice shower, some breakfast and ill try to get on it :)

First semster over - my little evaluation

Well it`s been a while since I finished the first semester, but I`ve been pretty busy since then.. met so many nice people down here, so wanted to spend my time with those who are leaving after the first semester + I`ve been on hols :) I think for me the biggest difference between Oz and Norway is the amount of assignment, back home we will have fewer but bigger assignements, while here we had lots of small assignments.

Screen pratictioners was the simplest subject down here.. First assignment was to do two interviews, one had to be face-to-face while you could conduct the second however you wanted.. from the interviews you had to write an essay where you compared and analyzed the different answers. To get full pot you also had to write an self assesment and peer review. The second assignment was to write a split scrip from the interviews for a bio doc, you also had to write a few pages where you reasoned the structure, chose of visuals and audio - this also with self assesment and peer review. Not too much work to do in this unit, we didnt have to attend the classes and got my first High Distinction.

From ide to script - script development. This was probably the unit I hated the most down here, I spent so much time in the beginning trying to get out of it as I dont like script writing. The unit was pretty good tho, with a good teacher and pretty well structured. The semster started with a Self Audit and Case study where you was supposed to find out which episodes from your past had shaped you to who you are, and from that which stories you would be able to tell. From that we had to write pitch and proposal for an idea, before we started to shape out first draft from our story. We also had different editing circle where you had to give feedback on other peoples script and also write a critique. If you wanted you could have your script evaluated by an industry panel who chose the top 10 scripts to be made in the collaborating unit next semester. Me being me said thanks, but no thanks, but the rest of the Norwegians gave it a go and Soheil had his chosen. Others assignment in this class was a script alive presentation (which I never did and therefore just missed out on a Distinction, blah) and final draft of the script.

Documentary development project had the absolut best teacher, Dennis Smith. One of the most well known aussie documentary developers, and he was good. It started with an overlay assignment which was absolutt rubbish, but after everyone had done a pitch about a project we split into groups and I debated myself into the Guerilla filmmaking group which I`m really happy I did. We were gonna make a 5 mins short documentary, and we had enough footage to make probably 10 different ones and were struggeling a bit on what to focus on. In the end we made more a bio doc about the independent filmmaker Mark Bakaitis and how the guerilla filmmaking style has influenced him. This documentary was the main project in this unit, and for the last 10 weeks this was the only thing we were working on together with writing 3xsynopsis (one liner, paragraph and page) proposal and treatment for the documentary and a couple of peer assesments. I`m still waiting for the grad in this unit.. but I think we did pretty good and were in the top 3 of the documentaries that were shown in our screening.

Genre, form and structure. This was the unit where we shot of 16mm for the first time. The unit was alot about team building, but the funny part is with 7 people in a group where you are not allowed to set roles cos everyone are allowed to do everything they want - you are begging for trouble. Alot of different personalities, diffrent views on how to conduct everything and a big group so its easy to hide behind other people working and dont do much. In this unit it also were quite a bit of paper work, you had script development, 2x line producer, risk assesment, filmplan and presentation of the film + all the normal things you had to do before you go into production, script breakdown, shooting list, daysplans, light plans, storyboard etcetcetc. Alot to do in only 12 weeks, especially when you group is not too organized cos we dont have a producer or leader. One ex would be that we finished shooting about 2am in the night with 30mins to drive home, myself and the actor had to get up at 6am to do another interview for the doucmentary unit + some had to go to work so only 3 people were left to rig down the set and hand in the equipment which turned in to not be such a good idea since the equipment were only thrown into their boxes without being cleaned and the lights were packed when they were still hot and left in the car over the night.. all of this made the people of deakin a bit pissed and we got penalised with losing 5% of our project points.. I still haven`t go the grad for this unit, but I think I atleast will get a Distinction (from my own calculations from the assignments I`ve gotten back til now) and maybe hoping for something more.. but not sure yet...

This was fast what Ive been doing this semster.. I have already started the double point unit for next semester where I got to be the editor in the film project I wanted. Its a drama film about a schizophrenic main character.. is going to be intresting :) I got 1 more week of before we go into 13 intense weeks with ALOT of work.. gonna be fun :)

So much to do - so little time..

I know im not doing any good at the blogging down here.. but serious - being a student in aussie is not that chilled! Alot to do, but we are getting close. My last assignment for this semster is due June 12th and on the 22nd me, Tim, Ollie and Tomas are heading towards Cairns for some serious roadtrippin`. We have rented a camper and gonna drive down to brisbane in about 2 weeks time. im looking forward to the break - but its also gonna be a bit sad as all the exchange students are going home.. which pretty much means all the girls :(

this week has been pretty eventful tho.. weds we went to crown for poker and champions leauge final.. poker was awesome, the footie not so much.. on friday it was the stick party at stott street, saturday we went to the crown for some gambling before we hit the nightclub at the top of crown and today me and marie have been out for dinner :)

tomorrow it will be back to uni as we have one documentary which is due this week and one short film which is due next week.. + the fucking script :(

ill blog a bit after the summer trip when i acually have something exciting to write ;)

hope everyone is enjoying the sun back home! love u lots! x