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To the porn fans

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Mar 3, 2024
  • 1 min read

For starters, it's creepy that you get off to me via my porn profiles, yet you're too chicken to have a real conversation with me. I'm sick of interacting via my wanks. It's not helping anyone anymore: it's probably hugely expensive and time-consuming to do so, I'm wanking for as long as normal, and I'm not becoming persuaded to consent to doing Tina. - I'm actually legally entitled not to consent; I have two other projects that are equally valid as film ideas. I've never said that I wasn't going to invest in Wellington if I got something produced, but now Wellington might have to come to terms with the idea that they can't choose which idea they get to produce. So, I've got a bunch of short films and I've got a feature-length futuristic musical. Those are the ideas that I'm willing to discuss. - Further caveats: I refuse to sing the 2030 songs as me for a lame pops concert. No, with other singers in the studio (just like my Portrait of a Knight album). I'm not performing Alison or Kay either. I make films, but I'm camera-focused .. that's my actual role on all sets. Bear in mind that several of my better music videos were me filming myself. One of the upsides of those Wellington Stories is that it shows me as a competent DP.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Mar 03, 2024

DP-wise, I'm like Soderbergh: as few lights as possible. Canon sensors pick up a lot of detail, and I like to mix colour temperatures -- it's not a Wong Kar-Wai reference, but people could see that. Michelle Kan and I both used 550d Canon cameras for a long time. That was my main camera from around 2011-2022. With a 50mm prime lens and a 18-135mm. Andre had a proper camera. We seldom used dolly tracks for short films, so those are mostly tripods with wheels or handheld with stabilise effects. Motion Array provided the effects for These Words Are Meant For Someone, and most of the Weeded Out cartoons, plus posterise and channel invert etc. to create all those psychedelic visuals.

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