Alright, today was a good day I think. It was friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees was at my crib, I told him to fuck off and die. He accepted my request and did very much so. Later this day I went to the hospital in Vaasa to make a shortfilm, it is an infomercial for the hospital’s socialworkers.

( The front door to the location of the set )

The short film has been in the works for several weeks and on today’s unlucky date we had decided to shoot the damn thing. I think it will be a 10-15 minute piece about what the socialworkers at the hospital are all about. The film is built with voice-over stuff and a scene somewhat based on reality.

( The “patient” preparing on set )

The team behind the camera consisted of me and the Make-up artist Sara. The editing and the sound parts will also be done by me. So it’s kind of a one-man-band thing. We didn’t use any lighting, and that worked really well I hope, since my 5D Mark Tage is really strong on the lighting part, I hope. Haven’t gone through today’s shots yet, but what I’ve seen looks good, no it’s up to the editor to screw it up. Oh, wait, that is also me.. The short film consisted of a whole bunch of lines and actors, so it was quite tricky to pull it off with only one guy handling the tech-part…

( Kinda christmas-y won’t you say, no? Location part 2 )

I’ll start the editing process during next week and it should be finished in a couple of days. The entire sequence, or movie, was shot in about 4 hours and I’ll continue on Sunday with some exterior cutaways to the already recorded voice-over scenes. The flick will be shown twice, at some hospital convention thing, I don’t really know, call the hospital if your interested,the secret number is the yleinen hätänumero 112, no?

( Another bad joke in the wall? )

The project has been very successful so far, the socialworkers (who wrote the script, acted and planned the whole shebang) did a great job with the acting and I really hope that the short film will meet their demands, if not, then it would totally suck. Don’t know if I’ll upload the movie on any internet-channel at all, it depends on a lot of things, only time and major fuck-ups will tell. But as for now I feel that the movie is in healthy hands and it will be a successful project. Thank you Vaasan Keskussairaala for believing in me!

Now you folks have a great night, tomorrow is a new day with some mighty and dirty challanges.

// Tage – Hopefully I didn’t catch the H1N1 at the hospital, hopefully..