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To my hard working students in the Interaction Design department at the RCA ... their show opens on Thursday eve and sadly I can't be there as I will be lost in 1578 ... although apparently Karen has located a WIFI hot spot in Long Melford so I might be able to join the virtual party in George's Chatsum.
They have all worked amazingly hard this year and the show looks great so I recommend a visit ...
As Nina finishes her packing before we join 1578 for our new film shoot, I thought I'd share my latest craft outbreak - a range of bespoke Tudor handbags to conceal our stuff. The one on the far right is - sad I know - exactly tailored to hide a one litre plastic water bottle.
I think I might have become a fully paid-up re-enactor....
Despite the pre-shoot white-out caused by the Tudor project I will blog pictorially with these pics from Bata-ville's recent Czech premiere!
It's now only one week until we start to shoot our next film at Kentwell Hall (living as Tudors for three weeks) and finally, with this imminent deadline, we seem to have reached a format and camera resolution. Here you see us comparing our new 'small' HD camera (a Z1 for camera nerds) to the picture on John's Digibeta that he shot Bata-ville with - all this as as part of our rather overwhelming preparation/crash camera course with him today.
John will be (thank God) filming most of the event but for the 15 odd days that we can't have the crew there Karen and I have to go it alone, at last that boom pole and radio mic. we've owned for years might potentially see the light of day.
Not satisfied with using one new camera we've at last resolved that John will use the Varicam (Panasonic's super delux HD solution) for the first time ... unlike us he seems remarkably unphased by this ... I guess he doesn't also have to practice his Tudor and start a limning this week ... "By Saint Luke".
Ordinarily I'd pop these onto the Somewhere site but extreme Tudor preparation prevents me, but for any Bata-ville passengers out their you might like to visit my new Zlín slide show on Flickr ...
You'll see that the 21st building (formerly the Bata Head Quarters) has been finished off in a rather spectacular fashion complete with the re-vamped office/lift and roof-top cafe. Generally to see the way that some of these fantastic buildings have been bought back to life since we visited has really made me think again about what might happen next in East Tilbury.
Next week we're screening the film at Allies and Morrison one of the architects potentially bidding for a slice of the East Tilbury regeneration pie - I will be fascinated to see what they are proposing for the place, and who comes to see the film there. To co-incide with this I hope that Steve Rose is writing a piece in the Guardian about East Tilbury too ... on the phone it sounds as though (like me) he's become slightly obsessed with the place!
Just sitting at the airport watching lightning and waiting to depart leaving Karen to man our screening at the festival this eve. We have no idea what kind of audience to expect ... Or if news will have reached the Zlin Bata old hands. We've done our best to visit all our contacts and leaflet the festival crowd but the Czechs are certainly a different beast to a Texan crowd ... They might know who Tomas Bata is but we certainly can't tell what they make of us.
It's 22:31. I've seen the film 20 minutes ago. I'm a young student(22) from Zlin(surprisingly at Tomas Bata University). I'have enjoyed every moment of the film. There should have been some discussion afterwards but I left although I'm full of emotions. Let's say I'm a guite shy guy. But I want to thank you, Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, for making this projekt real. I was wondering many times about going in somewhere abroad where "Batas" vilages were built up.
This film was like making my dream come true in more sophisticated way.You've mixed enough of historic facts, art, people and places together at the right proportions. The result pleased my heart and my soul.
Thank you once again and the last thing I want to say: Karen managed the film presentation very professionally! Unfortunatelly her interpreter was a kind of jaded which made him very comic :-)
Good luck to you !
Blimey the festival parties can not get any better 4 us ... The surprise evening event is at Buchlov castle with ... Guess who ... Mixed era re-enactors ..!
The festival just gets more and more odd ... There's a lot of simultaneous translation that no one appears to be listening to and this lot singing at the CZ TV party are apparently the stars of a popular series ...
It's pretty weird being back here ... We can now actually 'see' Zlín in a way that was impossible from the tunnel of filming ... But it's also impossible to revisit anywhere in the film with out us both re-living our lines! Here from todays loving look at the fantastic Zlín shoe museum Marcela's shoes ... 'I remember those ... I wore that exact pair in Prague'.
We've touched down back in our favourite CZ town and as you can see from the launch fireworks the film festival is a big deal here. We found ourselves almost straight back at the super odd hotel Moskva (where we spent our Bata-ville nights) for the launch party ... pictures of the creepy crooner band to follow as soon as we locate wi fi ! Always nervous as to where our next meal will be coming from, we panic ordered in the 'mexican themed' hotel restuarant only to be greeted at the party by the most impressive array of canapes seen this side of the 70's, apple-slice-swans, whole roast pigs and 'meat-flavour' icing a-go-go ...
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