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JOURNAL

The process diary of film director Glendyn Ivin

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Glendyn Ivin

At the end of April I'm heading back to Sydney for Puberty Blues Series 2. I'll be setting the show up again, directing the first two and the last three episodes (5 of the 9 eps). I can't wait to get sucked back into that world. It feels like a best friend that I'm desperate to catch up with, span time and create new adventures together!

The above trailer is cut from the four episodes I directed from Season 1.

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categories Development, Pre-Production, Puberty Blues, Video

FROM LITTLE THINGS...

Glendyn Ivin

Just jumping on the Gotye bandwagon for a moment after his mulit grammy winning efforts yesterday! I've not listened to the album, apart from the single that's hard not to have heard, but I love this self made 'making of' he made for his 'Making Mirrors' album. An album that obviously had such humble beginnings, recorded in his parents shed.

A wonderful reminder to do things your way, keeping those who love and support you close and work hard.

Congrats Gotye!

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categories Inspiration, Video

NIGHTMARES

Glendyn Ivin

I don't often post my commercial work here but I'm really happy with this latest spot I directed for the New Zealand Fire Service and M&C Saatchi Auckland late last year. 'Nightmares' is the first part of a follow up campaign to another spot I did for the NZ Fire Service this time last year. The original campaign was so successful the sale of smoke alarms went up by 2000%!

Cinematographer  Ari Wegner with music composed by Stephen Rae.

There are three other spots in the campaign that will be released over the next 12 months. Working on this campaign has been an absolute pleasure. The team at M&C Saatchi in Auckland and the guys from the Fire Service have been an absolute pleasure to work with.

Ata (below) who I cast in the campaign is a non-actor who we found via a contact within the fire service. I love his presence and his stillness on screen. He just has it. I loved working with him and I hope we can do something else together some day.

Interestingly, when Ata was a young boy his family house burnt down. He remember's being dragged from his bed and then standing outside watching his house burn to the ground. His father was badly burnt and scarred during the fire. Ata told me that many years later when his father died they said "...the fire also went with him.".

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categories Photography, Video

MORE HARRY

Glendyn Ivin

Thinking a lot about Harry Savides passing away... a friend posted the short film below on Facey and I thought it was cool. In many ways even though the interview doesn't go the way the filmmakers planned, I get a greater sense perhaps of who Harry was from this short film than if the more traditional 'interview' had gone to plan. I also love how the film begins and it's about one thing, but in the end, it's about something altogether different. It kind of sums up my approach to directing and to filmmaking in general. You can plan all you want, but in the end, the most important thing is the thing that's actually happening. Full credit to the filmmakers to being able to respond and capture so beautifully what was actually occurring and didn't fight to bend the film into a shape it so obviously didn't want to go. It's way more beautiful because of it!

UPDATE: Wait a second... is this film a commercial for Built by Wendy? If it is, everything I wrote above is bullshit... And maybe now I should write about how clever it is an advertisement. But I feel a little fooled.

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categories Inspiration, Video

R.I.P HARRY SAVIDES

Glendyn Ivin

I'm a bit late posting about the passing of the late, great cinematographer Harry Savides who passed away last week. Such an inspiration. He shot so many great films but I think my favourite is Gus Van Sant's Last Days. The film is so beautifully shot. I remember seeing it with my Dad in a near empty cinema Kino in Melbourne when it was released years ago. I was so blown away by it's minimalism, beauty and poetry. It's become one of my favourite films. I left the cinema in awe, speechless. My Dad turned to me as we hit the foyer and said in disgust "Don't you ever make a film like that...!". Double speechless...! So whenever I think of Harry Savides, I think of Last Days and when I think of Last Days apart from fathers 'advice' I think of this very simple but stunning scene...

After watching the above clip, watch how they shot it below. Something wonderful about watching a small crew work in unison. I often wonder why they didn't lay all the track for the dolly and then remove the front pieces as they dollied back, and not have to relay and level on the fly. I like to think that not even Gus Van Sant can afford all the toys all the time and they only had a few lengths of track in the (small) grip truck. A perfect example of how necessity particularly in film making are nearly always the mother of invention.

Harry Savides, genius!

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categories If not here then where?, Inspiration, Of Interest?, Video