I would like to use this particular blog to wish everyone a merry chrismas and a happy and succesful 2010 from Lisbon, Portugal. I know that at this moment in the province of Friesland (where I was born) in the Netherlands there is currently a 30 cm pack of snow – and still growing. Unfortunatly [...]
In this blog I posted the commercial I worked on during my internship at Check The Gate. It was a commercial for Angola, one of the former colonies of Portugal, where – just like in Portugal – they love football! Enjoy the 30 second commercial for ‘Ngol Lubrificantes’ and leave a comment if you like [...]
It’s been a while again since I last posted here so I figured it’s time for some new ones! Firstly some more about my internship! Finally went to the filmset some weeks ago and it was great! We did a 23 hour job straight on but I got so much positive energy from it that [...]
In: Internship 'Check The Gate'| Photography Projects| Video Projects
13 Oct 2009The last few days were pretty interesting. Did some video editing and photography editing to begin with and apart from that yesterday was an interesting day as well especially. I went with a photography scout all over Lisbon to look for interesting places for one of our films. We took pictures from various locations – [...]
It was one of the oldest tricks in the book and it had to happen some time, I suppose. I’ve seen it happen many times before allready in Lisbon and in other cities in the world, but I never fell for it up untill now: my iPhone got stolen last saterday right in front of [...]
I had another great day today at Check The Gate. Made a short edit in final cut pro and after that I with Jose to Christian Robinson, an American who had just arrived in Lisbon. He’ll be doing a medical documentary with his company Morningstar entertainment for Discovery channel.
Also, Jose told me today that – [...]
Yesterday I went for my first meeting with Jose Mineiro at the film production company Check The Gate, where I will be doing my internship for the upcoming months. And it allready was a learningful expierence by only talking to him. I learned he works with the best equiptment (RED for example) and people in [...]
Exactly 7 days ago I arrived in Lisbon. Around this time I had my first Portugese beer, but my first week is now truly over and real life is about to start again! And what better way to end my sightseeing time with a day at the Atlantic ocean and swimming in it before meeting [...]
On the fourth day Linda and Marielle (also from my faculty in Holland) joined us to visit the castle and gaze at some amazing viewpoints over the city. The castle itself is nice, but for me personally the view was the most interesting. There wasn’t a lot of information about the castle itself, allthough you [...]
So, I’ve finally arrived in Lisbon almost a week ago now. After a strange flight that involved two firetrucks fixing the right wing of the plane at Faro airport while we were escorted into the terminal, the same plane touched ground in Lisbon a few hours later with a small delay of about an hour. [...]