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 [...]
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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 – [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
I’ve been putting this off on my blog for a long time because everything was still a little uncertain, but now things are finally starting to pay off for me regarding to my internship. I Had to fill in a lot of forms again (just like with Turkey) over the past few weeks, and make [...]