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The Darmok47 Experience
Mar. 16th, 2010
01:11 pm - Field promotion
Sunday, 14th March.
10.15am. Arrived in Glasgow. Took train out to St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art.
10.30am. Arrived at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art. Discovered, as I had suspected as I walked up, that Glasgow Museums don't open until 11am on Sundays. It was a nice day, so I just went for a wander around. There are more pleasant-looking areas in Glasgow, though.
11.00am. Went into the museum, and took photos for Friday's presentation.
12.20pm. Travelled by train into city centre again, then out to the Museum of Transport and Technology. Looked to see where would be best to take photos for the presentation, but decided I'd rather wait until after the filming to give me time to think it over. Got a sandwich to serve as lunch.
1.30pm. Set out to find the filming location.
c 1.45pm. Accosted by film director in entrance to underground station, waiting for the rest of the cast.
The scene was supposed to involve one of the main characters meeting his girlfriend in a cafe. I was to be the cafe waiter, who has two lines, spoken in a monotone. There was a clear shooting schedule, and the scene should probably take only half an hour to film. But then, things started going wrong... or from my perspective, right.
First, the cafe refused to let us film there until they shut at 6pm. So, the scene needed to be changed slightly so it didn't take place in a cafe. Fair enough. Then, the guy playing the main character I mentioned earlier didn't show up. Apparently his phone had been lost or damaged or something. By 2.30 he still hadn't shown up, so we all headed back to the director's hall of residence so he could do a complete rewrite of this section of the film, based around the two actors (the one playing the girlfriend, and me) who were actually present.
I took this opportunity, while the script was being rewritten, to take those photos at the Transport Museum. I had been planning to take some at Kelvingrove as well, but there wasn't time for that.
So, once it had been written, we went and filmed the new scene(s) - taking a journey through some of the very pleasant areas of Glasgow. Now I'm the one with the girlfriend, and I'm jealous that she's been seeing someone behind my back, involving a lot of pinning to the wall and shouting in faces. So, I ended up getting a much bigger role with a lot of intense acting, just because of the way that fate decreed things. Pretty good.
By the time we had finished filming, though, the museums had been shut for over an hour. So, the Kelvingrove photos will have to wait. I think it was worth it, though.
Apr. 25th, 2009
11:28 pm - Jumping ship (but not the shark)
Wow, I bet you never thought I'd post on this thing again. Well, I'm here to direct you to my new blog at http://darmokthegreen.blogspot.com/
Jan. 27th, 2007
06:02 pm - There is nooooooooo... Rule 6.
Yesterday evening was fun. Although Uni doesn't start again for another two weeks, all (most?) of the people from the Drama Society who are in the area got together last night at a curry house. The reason for this was the return of an old friend - a student from Australia who had studied here for a year and was back in the country for a week. It was good to hear from her again, and indeed to have another night out with the Drama Society people.
Two weeks may seem too long, but on the other hand, it may be too short. I don't have nearly as much reading to do for this semester as I usually have - in fact it's only one book, for History. It's not even a very long book, so that can't be too hard, and History's an interesting subject.
HOWEVER, the book is really dense... I somehow can't seem to get through it. Most of it's not all that interesting, so far, and could have been said in a few sentences. I'm not sure I'll have it finished by the time semester starts.
tiredOct. 17th, 2006
01:53 pm - Semiology of crisp packets
Note to Yanks:
crisps = potato chips
colour = color
flavour = flavor
I was wondering recently, why it is that certain colours correspond to certain flavours. Obviously in some cases the colour goes with whatever the flavour is meant to taste of. But in other cases it seems fairly arbitrary. I think crisp packets should be a good example to follow.
The three most common crisp flavours are ready salted (e.g. normal, no flavour), salt & vinegar (e.g., vinegar) and cheese & onion (which I strongly believe has salt in it as well, they just don't mention it). In Walkers' crisps, ready salted is indicated by a red packet; salt & vinegar is green; and cheese & onion is blue. Why is that? What do these colours have to do with the flavours of the crisps? Shouldn't cheese & onion be yellow? Ready salted red looks like it's tomato ketchup flavour. Shouldn't it be... I don't know... fried potato colour?
A lot of other companies are bought over by Walkers so they of course have the same colour scheme. But others, such as McCoy's, have a different but similar scheme: the colours are the same, but cheese & onion is now green and salt & vinegar is blue. This makes a sort of sense... salt usually has the grand name of "sea salt" on most packets, and the sea is usually blue. But green is a fairly unappetising colour to associate with cheese, isn't it?
Just throught it was strange - the same three colours are used despite their irrelevence, but, with equally no reason, some companies switch two of them around. Could lead to confusion and unusal taste sensations.
01:35 pm - R.I.P. N.F.A?
What do these initials mean, you may ask? R.I.P. fairly obviously means Rest in Piece, but N.F.A.? Am I mourning the loss of a National Football Association? Well, I don't know if any National Football Associations have bitten the dust recently; that's not what I'm referring to.
I expect that Never Fade Away has, despite its title, faded away. Perhaps it will be back - I hope so. Perhaps L.I.C.C. will be back again in some other form - I hope this as well, although knowing LICC's track recond, it will be something else which is short-lived and incomplete. I guess people are just too busy these days. Well, most of us - that JD guy seems to have time for any sort of writing.
Nonetheless, I should get back to writing in this blog. I guess the fact that, most likely, only the few people on my friends list will look at it, isn't much of an incentive.
I'll put a stop to that, then. :)
May. 30th, 2006
02:07 pm - *brushes the cobwebs off The Darmok47 Experience*
Never Fade Away continues...
The Story So Far... (well, most of it)
Part 17 can be found here until it gets added to the Story So Far.
( Never Fade Away Part 18 )
(Sorry, izhilzha, there's no Enesku and Artsy bit - I just wanted to get this story continued as quickly as possible!)
Apr. 21st, 2006
04:40 pm - One Flew Over RAG week
OK, first of all, apologies to the other NeverFade people... my next part will probably not be up for another week or so, but I'll try and get it done sooner.
RAG week went pretty good, although the LAN party failed disastrously, as, despite what we had heard about the capacity of the computers, none of the games seemed to work, and if they did, it was very slowly. The circus wasn't quite as spectacular as we had hoped, and no-one showed up to the jalapeno eating contest so it didn't go ahead. But the big events were very successful and all in all we raised about £1,500 (I think - I'm not the treasurer!)
And Cuckoo's Nest went very well, incidentally. People I had never met before have been complimenting me on my performance, something I never thought would happen. :)
But the work never ends... even when many of the University lecturers are on strike.
Mar. 23rd, 2006
04:44 pm - I'm in the Crazy House!
Not literally of course. Unless you call this University a crazy house. I'm going to be in a production of One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest, playing the character of Billy.
You remember I mentioned the Drama Society Festival in some of my entries last year? Well, this time I'm one of the people running it. Not, however, one of the people trying to get a venue. Hopefully there will be time to get one before it's supposed to take place!
RAG week is going to be in a couple of weeks from now! For those of you who don't know, RAG stands for Raise And Give, and is an organisation in several Universities to raise money for various charities using all variety of methods from simple collections to bizzare forms of entertainment. We've got the Union for most of the nights, and events include a ceilidh, a circus and, if possible, a jalapeno eating contest!
Feb. 7th, 2006
05:22 pm - Return to Uni
Today was Clubs and Societies day at Uni, meaning that every club or society had a stall for advertising themselves and recruiting new members. As a member of four different clubs and societies, and on the committee of three of them, I had to move around quite a bit. Today I was told I had to prepare an event for RAG by tomorrow afternoon and finish writing something for our RAG Mag by the same time... that's in addition to the Application Form I'm supposed to fill in before Friday, and all the academic reading I'm supposed to do (which I wasn't able to today, due to all the ambient loudness) So I guess I'll be kept busy for the next while...
Jan. 17th, 2006
11:18 am - Never Fade Away...
Just when it looked like "Never Fade Away" had faded away...
The Story So Far... (well, most of it)
( Never Fade Away Part 14 )
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