Did you watch yesterday's vlog?
http://marjoleinrobertson.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/todays-video-blog-vlog.html
SPOILER: This blog post is full of interruptions.
So today I was driving into town from Sumburgh airport, had just headed out when I saw some crows on a fence, I don't know about you but I always count crows as they will prophesise for you:
1 - For Sorrow
2 - For Joy
3 - For a Girl
4 - For a Boy
5 - For Silver
6 - For Gold (and)
7 - For Stories Never To Be Told
(I don't know about you guys but I'm going to have hundreds and hundreds of babies when I'm older, thanks for keeping me in the know crows).
Maybe you are just meant to do that with magpies, but we have none of them in Shetland, which is good, because whenever you see a lone magpie you have to shout at it, preferably in a Glaswegian accent: "Oi there magpie where's your fucking mate?" Because, you know, 1 means sorrow, 2, better. Since being told that by my friend I can no longer not shout that at lone magpies.
But to the tale, so I was driving and I was counting the crows on the fence as I drove along, there were two. So it was joyful, as soon as I went back to looking at the road, in that instant several of those peerie (small) birds flew in front of the car, we call them Linties in Shetland, I have no idea what they actually are, and I hit one, just feathers in my window man.
I was genuinely upset, and also felt like I was in some kind of....
Lorcan Henry just came up to me as I was typing this story and told me about how he was eating dinner with friends and it had this sentence in it:
"They were eating Chinese food, they offered me some. But it was vegetarian Chinese food so I just had a little bit."
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| Why is Lorcan angry? He interrupted me. |
Anyway, as I was writing earlier, I was genuinely upset by killing this bird, I mean they always flit infront of cars, in a taunting like fashion....
Now Cara just came up to me, read what I have been typing and then shouted at me because:
"That counting thing is not crows! It's magpies not crows!"
I told her she needs to read all of it as I address that issue. She is nodding.
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| Cara Cara Cara Cara Cara |
BACK TO THE STORY AGAIN:
So I saw two crows, means good luck, then immediately killed a cute baby bird and I thought "What kind of joy is this?!" Then I realised, it is joy for the crows, the crows can then eat the carcass of their fallen distant cousin. Crows make their own luck and that's what we should all do.
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| This is a photo I took of some wild Pokémon. Careful. |
And now, here is a copy of the Press Release I sent to local news sources yesterday during the 24 hour film challenge:
Press Release Starts
Screenplay and Maddrim Media 24 Hour Film Challenge
Just over 16 hours ago, before the screening of American Interior at Screenplay 2014 we walked on stage and challenged the audience to provide us with a setting, a line and a prop, all of which are to be included in a film, conceived, written, filmed, edited and marketed entirely within 24 hours!
Tonight we will walk back on stage to present our film to the audience at this year’s Home Made in Shetland. There are less than so many hours to go and things the pressure is on! (It starts at six).
Proving that our film has been created entirely spontaneously, we challenged the audience who witnessed the project's launch to provide us with a setting: a swimming pool, a prop: a cactus, and a line: "I aint got time to bleed".
Last year’s film was based around King Harald Street Play Park, a beer bottle and the line “One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind.” These three suggestions inspired the short film “Small Steps” that was played last year at Screenplay before a screening of the Exorcist.
To add to the excitement, on Friday morning, already into the challenge, we have been joined by our friends from SKAMM (Scottish Kids Are Making Movies) who earlier this year took part in an exchange in Edinburgh with Maddrim. This new bond of friendship and professional like film making will be tested under the stresses of the 24 hour film
challenge. There are 8 SKAMM members currently running around Shetland, filming with us. This year takes on a darker turn as cactuses as an inspiration prove for pain both physically and emotionally with no comfort from the soothing aloe vera insides.
Can we do this? Can we complete this film in 24 hours? We don’t know, we’ve given ourselves further locations, more twists and some may say too many puns to fill a swimming pool. (Is that a pun?)
To find out if we can complete the challenge come to Home Made in Mareel tonight at 6.00!
God speed, to us.
Press Release Ends
One day I'll share the 24 hour film 'Catcus' on this blog. One day.
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