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I have decided to re-enter the original fake cheese entry to explain my “I do not smell like cheese” entry. For the record I just want to say that I’m against censorship of information and do not have a problem with all cheese lovers out there that think the smell of cheese is devine. I do enjoy my cheese from time to time, and have a love for mild, creamy cheese on bread or crackers. The problem with the original fake entry on cheese is that it contained misleading information and was generalising a nation.

The reson I first decided to delete the entry was because of the sentence; “it’s a norwegian thing..”. Norwegian in general do not smell like cheese, there are probably some Norwegians that do, but I can with confidence say that it’s not a Norwegian thing. I and most Norwegian that I know have a good relationship to dairy products and cheese, as it is a part of our good food traditions. We love our cheese, specially our world famous Jarslberg cheese. However the French does not smell like Blue Vein cheese or Brie, the Greek does not smell like Fetta and Norwegians do not smell like Jarlsberg.

I smell like cheese, it’s a norwegian thing….

Someone has broken into my blog and wrote a fun, but a bit wrong entry in here. Don’t know who it is, and now I have to change my password…sucks. I probably have forgotten to log out after blogging at uni and someone has taken over my computer. So everybody…remember to log out of your blog if you are on a public computer.

My life as a University student is soon over, and I have to get out and get work. And to be honest I’m terrified by the thought of the world out there that’s awaiting me. I do believe in my own abilities, and I have nothing against being part of the working force. It’s just the fact that life as a student has treated me well, and when things are good you don’t want them to change. And specially when you listen to almost every person in the industry telling you how horrible it was to get into the industry, how hard they had to work for no pay. I don’t mind not getting paid and working hard, as long as I enjoy it, but I don’t want to end up on the street or working in a supermarket, because of a financial situation.

Hopefully I don’t have to work for nothing for too long, but it scares me to hear that people have been doing work for free for over a year, my financial situation does not allow that. The best advise I have had so far is from Des Dowling who is a producer amoungs other lots of things, he said; “Work hard! I worked hard for my lucky break, lucky breaks do not come by themselves”. And yes, and I do want to work hard, and the fact that I have to prove myself before I get a job doesn’t bother me. But what is the point of having a University degree if you have to use almost the same time doing work experience, would I have been better off go straight into working in the industry instead of going to University?

In the heart of Melbourne, or more correctly in the newly developed Docklands, you can find Australia’s newest and state of the arts Film Studio. Melbourne Central City Studios is the third big scale film studio to be established in Australia. Australia has already Warner Roadshow Studio on the Gold Coast (home of the House of Wax production) and Fox Studio in Sydney (The new Superman movie). The Melbourne Studio have already had visitor from the US when Ghost Rider was filmed in Melbourne in early 2005. I went to the Melbourne Studios with in my lecture to have a look at this new studio and to hear more about which opportunities can emerge from filming in a studio.

First of all I have to say that it wasn’t that impressive, not that I have anything to compare it with, but it was all a bit too Hollywood for me. We got the standard tour, reminded me of going house hunting, something that I just spent a couple of weeks doing. As everything else, it was all about showing off and selling a product, we got all the stories of how bad it looked when a shoot was finished, and how many times they had to repaint the walls, not all the interesting in general.

Well back to the topic of film studios; I can now see how you would choose to film television daytime drama, special TV events and sci-fi movies in a Studio, but I think that a scene would always look best in real settings. This might be because I’m a big fan of the European/French pure style of cinema and the Danish dogma. Even if filming in a studio is convenient and efficient, it doesn’t always look good.

A prime example is the new Narnia movie which I, with great exportations have been blogging about. I went to see Narnia with the expectation of be able to watch one of my childhood favourites with a touch of ultimate cinema, it is important that a adventure film will be compared to and expected to have similar or better quality than Lord of the Rings. Narnia didn’t get close enough, even if it was a nostalgic experience, it was also a big disappointment. There were too many scene’s that were filmed in a studio and therefore the whole scene got a claustrophobic feel to it. Good example was the Ice castle, which when it was filmed inside gave us the feeling that the characters was in an esky. Also a lot of the outdoor scenes were done in a studio, and you could clearly see that they had used fake wind and green screen. It just isn’t the same. The human eye is too good to pick up on what’s real or not, and you have to really careful. And if you are studying film or working in the industry, you are aware of these thing more than most people (watching a film will never be the same again).

However I see the potential these studios have in some genres like sci-fi and adventure films that uses CGI (Lord of the Rings and Star Wars), to film indoor-scenes like apartments and offices. However if you want natural outdoor environment, it should be filmed in nature in my opinion, even if it takes you a week extra. I also think that studios the one in Mel have a great future in hosting special events like the Melbourne Fashion festival and big awards nights (which it already has) and even sport (however I have been told that most film studios would never do that because of the insurance and damage it would do). The studios give you the opportunity to start with a huge room as a blank canvas and you can play with it how ever you wish, and surprisingly enough it isn’t that expensive, even if it would take way more of a production budget then I have ever worked on.