For Sir Peter

Yeah, I'm not keen on the Tina thing.

I still think those development techniques with the roto will be useful for Shipwrecked.

Ultimately I think that's an animated movie, and having spent all this time messing around with animation will definitely pay off. There's a certain smoothness to the roto style with AI that I think trad motion capture can't quite nail. - Those guitar demos were particularly surprising. My fantasy was that the style could become so sophisticated that it could be applied to the ILM backdrops that are being used nowadays, and altered in real time. Though I didn't see Taika's latest Thor movie, there was some interesting backlit shots in the trailer that must have been with those new backdrops. -

As for the voice; IRL I sound different. I'm a sponge - I soak up accents, and unintentionally drift as linguists do.

I trained myself to speak without a filter: I didn't care if it sounded a bit queen-y, that was sort of the point.

But yeah, my influences mostly aren't American. I love show tunes, but as for drag: nah, that's not my scene.

My cross-gender stuff is all Pom influence. Upsides of growing up in Christchurch.

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As I say, I'm speaking to a broad audience, much of which actually is American (as our film industry is largely American).

I have to be understood, and my thick accent was mostly cause for mockery, while my queen voice smacks people.

I think my NZ enemies who make musicals are jelly i do it so well.

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The divorce definitely set the business back.

We lost the house, it split our friends, and it ruined the post workflow.

That's what's different about our generation: we could basically do our own post-production, and Stephen's sound got really sophisticated by 2019 or so. I mean, the videos are mostly average angles, but the sound of the RP Orgy is great, and that puts it over the top of most gig films or sketch shows. The various DP's all brought something to the table. Michelle went to NZ Film School, which brings that slick energy, but yeah Andre was easily our favourite DP. - There's a lot of technical questions about the Dakumentary as a theatrical film: the different frame-rates, upscaling, sound design for Dak Headroom, and probably some grading. I haven't even gotten high-quality clips from TVNZ yet. As a YouTube playlist for a series of rough-and-ready activist film screenings, I reckon it's got the goods, but I think there's a lot of technical discussions to be had about a theatrical run or VOD. - Other news: My original Transtasia file has gone missing, so I can't recreate the Facebook Ad, and the earlier cut has also disappeared. All of my major tapes from last year are gone, actually, including the Bossa one and the Tribute show. In the Groove is the biggest loss, though. I think that was probably the best, despite going on for months after that. 😀 These Words Are Meant For Someone survived, though.