Wedding plans #1 - Venue

Wedding plans underway

So Anna and I have finally set a date for our wedding. I wanted late next year (Maybe Spring or something) she wanted early next year. Since she always wins these discussions, it will be early next year. At this stage it looks like being the 2nd of March.

It is going to be small. So small that I’ve had to cut back our guest list. It will be under 100 people. I’d love a lot more people there, but we are also trying to keep costs low.

We plan to hold a (short) ceremony at Edinburgh Gardens.


Probably not at the rotunda because even though it looks nice in this picture, it is close to noisy trams and usually has ugly graffiti on it, etc.

Across the road from here is a hall where we will have a basic reception-type gathering afterwards. There will be finger-food and drinks available, but not a sit down meal. (We just can’t afford it.)


So as you can see, there will be plenty of room for everyone to sit or have a dance if they like the music I have picked for the evening.

After the ceremony a few of us will take the time to get some photos around the place while the rest of the guests can either come over to the hall and get started on some beers, or if they are after a more substantial meal, maybe that would be a good point to get an early dinner elsewhere before coming to the hall. Though there will be plenty of finger-food so no one will go hungry!

So far we have tentatively booked the two locations but are yet to pay any money because we need to find a celebrant available on the day we need first. This is the next step then we can hopefully lock in the day and send out some invites.

I will let you know how this progresses via this blog and will post soon about our celebrant hunt and honeymoon plans.

Thanks for reading.

The Troll Bridge

Last week I had the privileged experience of working with an amazing group of people on an amazing film shoot. The film was Troll Bridge and I encourage anyone that can to seek it out once it's done. The story of this film began about 9 years ago when the director Daniel wrote an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's short story 'Troll Bridge' It's set in Discworld as many of his books are. Personally, I'm not a fan of his work but the great thing about Troll Bridge is that it is actually just an amazing story that doesn't require any knowledge of Discworld or Pratchett's work. I won't go into a synopsis of the film here but I do encourage you to look at this link which includes a synopsis and tells you all about the film itself:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/snowgumfilms/terry-pratchetts-troll-bridge (yes, it's a kickstarter page, no I'm not posting it here so people will donate - it's just a good overview of the film and the story, donations have closed.)

Last week we shot the bridge scene. The main part of the actually-quite-long short. It was amazing for a number of reasons. For a few of us it was an ending to 9 years of watching this film grow into something amazing. For others it was the first film set they'd been on, or for others their first time working with Snowgum Films. It didn't matter who had done what before though, because we all came together and worked towards the same goal and from what I have seen so far - it is amazing. Seriously.

For this shoot my job was flicking light switches. Literally, that was pretty much it. But then I was given another job - writing down measurements for each shot to help effects guys when they are adding in trolls and whatnot. I also helped move lights and the green screen around. To me it didn't really matter what job I had, I just wanted to be a part of the shoot since I had been on most of the shoots for the film (I didn't get to go to New Zealand) - in the first shoot for this film I was an actor (well, an extra).

The shoot went for 5 days, there are plenty of photos of it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowgumfilms/sets/72157629473394444/

Do check it out when it's done.

A sneak preview of what the final shot might look like: