Paul Romein

Paul blogging about cars??  Haha… read on….

Spencer and I worked this morning and afternoon for our eighth day into the Century House project.  We hit about 25% on the white board for completion, but the first while is always the hardest and takes the longest.

Greg came by randomly to practice unicycling and such, and Brittany surprised us with a visit a few minutes later!  It was awesome!  We ended up taking some time to touch up a spot on her car with some paint she picked up at Canadian Tire – it was quite fun!

In the evening, my family went for dinner at Pasto Polos with my grandparents.  I had some absolutely amazing food there which I will be dreaming of for a long time!  It was seriously amazing….

Afterwards, my dad drove my grandparents home in Burnaby, so Brian and I walked over to the mall randomly while calling some friends to see if they would drive us home.  Not much success, until we got through to Greg and we ended up hanging out with him back at his place for a couple hours before he drove us home.

On the way home, we stopped at a place less than a minute outside downtown PoCo where Brian had spotted a sweet car for sale!  It’s actually quite amazing, but this thing has a sign for just $1000??  We’re gonna give them a call to find out what’s wrong with it and such, but it’s actually a possibility for Brian and I.  Though Brian loves the yellow, and I would paint it black as soon as I could make sure it can drive on the road!  We shall see.  If I’m not mistaken, it’s a ‘78 Camaro Z28.

 Nice, eh?  Can you imagine……

We got a phone call from ICBC this morning confirming that it will be a write-off because it’d be at least $4500 just to fix the rear door assembly.

Today’s morning and afternoon were spent digging into the Century House project, mostly gathering the 27.5 hours of video we’ve recorded for it, as well as locating the 16mm film from the 1950’s, and scanning photos from ancient photo albums.  We’ve drawn up some sketches on a white board of how we’re going to make it flow, but we’re mostly using a whole whack of side documents for the meat. It begins….

In the evening, I re-opened the edit from last night which I was up until 3:30am editing.  I’ve titled the film “After The Car Crashed”.  Spencer scored it this afternoon, and I touched up the audio track and foleyed the intro tire screeches and I created the car crash medley.  Lastly, I got Mark Condon, Brian, and Petrin outside in the backyard to hit a cantaloupe with a baseball bat in mid-air while I recorded it and plopped that in as the sound for the hit later on in the film.  It was quite weird to be holding the mic, and not be able to move as you get splattered with cantaloupe.  I wasn’t really expecting such an explosion in my face.

I present to you all, After The Car Crashed.

I worked most of the day, and was gratiously visited by Brittany for a lunch break where she brought buns and we cooked up some burgers.  The only problem was that I couldn’t spend much of my lunch break with just her like I wanted because literally everybody came out of the house to hang out around the barbeque.  Oh well.

I got started on the prep ground work for the Century House project that will be my entire focus for the next few weeks.  Basically we’re making roughly a 45 minute  documentary for their 50th Anniversary.  It’s gonna be awesome!

In the evening, I’ve been working on an edit for a short last minute thing I shot last night.  I came up with the idea around 2pm, and called a bunch of people.  The only people available were Janet, Mike, Spencer, and Dan to act, myself and Corinne on camera, and Sam even came out to do up some good looking scratches on their faces and such!  The whole idea was to do a short film around my wrecked car as a set while we still had it.  It got towed away today and is probably a write off so we’ll never see it again.  The edit is coming along, just stay tuned for me to post it.

Later on, Jason, Brian, and I went down to Silver City to catch the 9:30 showing of Iron Man, but when we got in there a few minutes into the previews it was so full that we counted about four free seats in the entire theatre (obviously not next to eachother either), so we opted to postpone to the 10:10 showing.  Stupid two hours later put it into a late night, but I still came home and did some editing…. that car wreck film is really attractive to edit!