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JOURNAL

The process diary of film director Glendyn Ivin

EAST COAST NZ

Glendyn Ivin

Just back from two wonderful weeks holiday in New Zealand. We took a camper van around the far north of the north island. It was a great way to slow down, relax, see some stunning landscapes and spend some much needed quality time with just the family...

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categories faces places & things, Photography

NIGHTMARES

Glendyn Ivin

I don't often post my commercial work here but I'm really happy with this latest spot I directed for the New Zealand Fire Service and M&C Saatchi Auckland late last year. 'Nightmares' is the first part of a follow up campaign to another spot I did for the NZ Fire Service this time last year. The original campaign was so successful the sale of smoke alarms went up by 2000%!

Cinematographer  Ari Wegner with music composed by Stephen Rae.

There are three other spots in the campaign that will be released over the next 12 months. Working on this campaign has been an absolute pleasure. The team at M&C Saatchi in Auckland and the guys from the Fire Service have been an absolute pleasure to work with.

Ata (below) who I cast in the campaign is a non-actor who we found via a contact within the fire service. I love his presence and his stillness on screen. He just has it. I loved working with him and I hope we can do something else together some day.

Interestingly, when Ata was a young boy his family house burnt down. He remember's being dragged from his bed and then standing outside watching his house burn to the ground. His father was badly burnt and scarred during the fire. Ata told me that many years later when his father died they said "...the fire also went with him.".

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categories Photography, Video

ARE WE THERE YET?

Glendyn Ivin

Just back from the annual Xmas road trip. Melbourne to Tamworth with a (child free!) new year side trip to the Byron Bay area and back again. Over 3500 kms all up. It's a long way, especially with two kids and a dog in the back seat. But there is also something totally bonding about it. As a family we have spent a lot of this year apart due to my and Natalies work commitments so there was something cool about the family being 'forced' together in a confined space for hours and hours cruising across the country.

Despite the groaning and the occasional "Are we there yet!?" I think secretly the kids love it. I know I do.

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categories If not here then where?, Photography

THE WEEKEND

Glendyn Ivin

Over here in Auckland, New Zealand shooting a commercial but had a much needed day off yesterday which also coincided with my birthday. Choice az bro! Spent the day walking around browsing in book shops, sifting through and listening to records and taking photos of things I saw along the way...

On vinyl I discovered the joyous and somewhat indefinable Wild Bill Rickets. Kinda dub, kinda jazz, kinda musical in a way I haven't heard before. Bought two albums. Kinda obsessed with him now. Loo Loo (below) was the gateway track, groovy, haunting and strange!

Also I had been wanting to see Beasts Of The Southern Wild for ever and I had missed it when it was on at our local cinema. I didn't want to see it on a plane, train or download so I was excited to see it was screening in downtown Auckland. It's a beautiful film and I can see why for such a small, strange and extremely art house film it has managed to cut through.

A good day.

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categories faces places & things, If not here then where?, Inspiration, Photography