Wellington

I just came back from a really fun trip to Wellington that I went on with the young film makers group.

There were 3 car loads of people, in our car was my mum, my brother Kyle, Billie-Jean and her dad Ben, Arly and I. We left really early on monday, and listened to lots of music on the way (mostly Kyles anime openings). On the ferry we played Sushi Go (a card game) and Super Smash Bros! And finally, we arrived in Wellington.

Tuesday! We started this day by going to Portsmouth to look at the lighting equiptment and 3d cameras that will film an upcoming movie! It was lots of fun playing with the cameras and learning about the different things they do there.

Next, we went to Weta Workshop and touched a lot of the actual things from district 9, lord of the rings and the hobbit! That was pretty cool. They told us a lot about making sculptures, costumes and all that stuff. After that we took a break and had ice blocks.

Now the coolest place: Park Road Post Production! They don't do tours, but somehow, while we were at Portsmouth, they organized for us to go. We couldn't take photos because Peter Jacksons private art collection was there. We got to expeircence Dolby Atmos, which is a surround sound thing. We met lots of people who worked on famous movies, for example a colorist that coloured Mortal Engines, who showed us before and afters of what he did. Oh yeah, we got to see a real life Oscar. Wow.

Finally after a long day, we went back to the marae and had nachos for dinner. I think it was tonight that it rained and hailed really hard, so bad that the pipe was leaking and we all woke up (except for the other girls). It was kinda cool.

The next day, we went to Avalon Studios and learnt about Television things like how they film the news. That was also the place with big studios with greenscreens and stuff where they could build fake waterfalls and mini forests. We met some guys that were making minutures. It was really interesting because everyone was so 'chill', they weren't wearing suits, just normal clothes.

Lastly we went to capital e to film an alien invasion television thing. The whole thing was a big MESS and it was hilarious and full of mistakes, but that was the reason why it was so funny and so much fun.

We had a free day and Thursday, and woke up at 5 on Friday to pack up and leave for Greymouth.