Lunch in Katoomba & The exhausting DVD footage

We head to Hatters Café at Katoomba as this came highly recommended from Cherry who got drunk there on a chicken salad. It’s beyond me how someone can get drunk on a chicken salad but this is Cherry we are talking about. She got drunk on a steak a few years ago and nearly got us killed when driving into the city.

After enjoying lunch and witnessing some old bag in the restaurant causing a scene with her coffee we head to Flight Centre. I seriously don’t know why we ended up here as we walked past it and said we weren’t going in there. Only to end up back in there collecting books of Italy, Greece and Turkey. I supposed we needed some reading material or paper for the fireplace tonight.

Back at the house we are trying to get the fireplace going and within a short time I’m ready to wander through the lounge room in my underpants. With dinner on the table, a fireplace going and plenty of wine, out came the DVD collection. What do we watch?

It was time that we watched the footage we had from our "Film Production" and "Scriptwriting" classes. The DVD started with our Film Production assignment number one where we had to reshoot a scene from LA Confidential. The entire scene was at a party where the chick had to seduce the guy. Some how I got talked into playing the guy and Oishii was cast as the seductive chick. Meanwhile Firat, Tamar and Shad were wandering in the background like lost puppies.

We had never seen the movie so we decided to shoot without watching the scene first and just reading off the script that we were given. Watching the scene was quite funny and I can’t believe we actually agreed to filming that. I don’t think I could film that now.I think I have lost confidence and can't act in anything now.

Following the Film Production assignment scene was the entire scriptwriting footage. This class was a total joke honestly. The whole semester what we had to do was write a short script, cast the script using the people in our class and then direct one of the scenes in the script while we film it.

Hence this is when I wrote my script called "Paris". Paris was a gay unemployed actor living with his sister and brother in law. His sister was 9 months pregnant and ready to give birth any day. Paris was addicted to daytime soap and believed that the characters on screen were actually real. While watching his favorite soap "Hidden Intentions" his sister starts screaming. This is when Paris realizes that they have killed off his favorite character "Brad" off the show.

While the sister is screaming because her water has broken and she needs an ambulance to get to the hospital Paris is on the phone immediately not calling for an ambulance but calling channel seven to complain. While the sister is in pain screaming that "shes going to shove a hockey stick up his ass" if he doesn’t call her a cab the brother in law walks in.

The brother in law who is a self obsessed tit fanatic walks in to reveal that he just ran into Rachel in the lobby and she got breast implants. Fascinated by her new set of tits and nipples his wife starts to scream that "it’s coming". Her husband starts to scream you go pick her up then, I’m sick of your mother coming around here all the time. No one seems to be helping the poor pregnant woman when suddenly she gives up and stores past them knocking them out of the way to get downstairs to catch a cab.

For this scene I decided to cast Oishii as the pregnant woman, Guy as the gay brother and the cockroach guy Luke as the hubby. Some how the video got out, well the lecturer fell in love with the work and showed people and Oishii had totally strangers telling her that they loved her performance.

The last class was the actually screening of all of theses videos and I was lucky enough that the lecturer gave me the tape to make a copy of. Now this was about 4 years ago and that was the last time I watched this tape. So I seriously couldn’t remember what was on it.

Before the DVD we had discussed between ourselves what we remember. We knew that Oishii was in a total of 3 scripts – the aggressive pregnant woman, the shy bank teller and a strutting chick. It was then that we realized that I wasn’t cast in anyone’s script. I was totally disgusted that no one had picked me for their films.

The DVD started playing…..

The DVD started with the bank teller story line and it was pretty straight forward. Oishii was a shy bank teller and the cockroach guy Luke was the screaming customer who was demanding to see the bank manager. Now the shy bank teller tells him that the bank manager isn’t in and the guy continues to scream saying he wants a bank manager. When the shy bank teller tries to calm him down by saying that she will go find him the bank manager in walks the bank manager who happens to be no other than me. I jump off my seat in shock. I don’t remember filming this. What the hell is going on? Before I could question we all start a laughing fit about the fact that I’m the bank manager.

I wasn’t supposed to be in any script.Once the laughing fit came to a stop we continued watching the next scene and eventually my Paris script came up followed by Oishii’s strutting chick scene. At this point we thought the DVD was about to end when a scene came up with my voice. I had no idea what was happening when we noticed the next scene with me on screen as a police chief. This was starting to freak me out. I wasn’t meant to be on any of this. We had discussed this and we decided that no one cast me.

The scene continues as Snez played a reporter for some mental institution who was trying to open up a case that closed 20 years ago. Meanwhile I was trying to crack onto her – yes on screen and real life. All of a sudden all you hear is Oishii interrupting on screen acting as my secretary. What the hell is going on? She actually didn’t make it onto the screen well none of the actors did really due to the bad filming. At this point the laughing fits were getting beyond the point.

The DVD continued when I was on screen again playing a gym addict. I was pumping weights with my friend commenting on the new gym instructor when I stupidly drop it on my foot.

All of a sudden Oishii comes running into the scene and hence our laughing fits take off as again as we weren’t expecting that.

The DVD session was exhausting as no one remembered filming this stuff.

To continue we had to add more wine with the Mykonos trip footage….