Its been a while... Siyakolhwa, Zimbabwe....

Its been about 2 months since I last blogged, I have just recently come back from Zimbabwe where I was working on a documentary based on the Book, the Last Resort, by Douglas Rogers as a back story.

It was a good two weeks. Zimbabwe is definitely moving in the right direction. The shops were stocked and everybody is just carrying on with their day to day lives. The American Dollar has helped tremendously.

Brought back some cheap smokes, 5 $ a carton, coffee and a shongololo who stowed away in my backpack and is currently sightseeing the arse end of signal hill.

Before then I was working in studio on a kiddies show called Siyakolhwa, produced by X Con films. A religious show with a muppet take on things.

Its good to be back in Cape Town.

With regards to the feature. They have just wrapped on production today. Well done! Guys

Miyabi, Photo Shoot

On Friday the 11th of September, I did a photo shoot for Miyabi, who specialize in tops and dresses for women. The shoot went well considering the girls have never modeled before and needed a lot of direction. We used one prominent location, a house in Plumstead, a friend of the designer, Sandalene. Her garden was used for most of the shots, mixing flash with daylight.

4th DRAFT, FINALLY PRE PROD ON "KARKAS" CAN BEGIN!

The 4th draft has just been completed over the weekend by Rudi Steyn, finally pre production can commence. I have been anticipating this draft of the script ever since coming on board at the beginning of August. So far we have only established an overarching light design for the film.

Its time to shotlist, storyboard and break down each and every scene.

Just had it printed by the print shop today. I am about to make myself a cup of coffee and read it.

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KARKAS [Horror feature] TEST #1

On the weekend of the 15th of August I DOP on a test shoot for "KARKAS"[Afrikaans for Carcass]. The feature is to be shot at the end of November. You can follow the pre production process on their facebook fanpage.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cape-Town-South-Africa/Karkas/128954056418?ref=ts

I unfortunately did not operate the camera although I wish I did. Today I ve just come back from Telecine. The test shoot is being edited for marketing purposes. We shot on 16mm on 500T vision 3, the latitude on this stock is incredible and there is hardly any grain.

There will be future tests before we shoot the feature in November.

By the end of this week I ll have received another draft of the screenplay.

Lu Chase Music Video Shoot

This weekend I helped out my friends at AKSP productions to light a music video shoot for Lu Chase. The track was composed by Paul Van Zyl. The video will be off to London in a month's time.

Later this week we will be completing the car interior sequences.

My First Post, "Industry" Promo shoot

Since I have a website www.robbeugelink.com I thought I should start posting my own blog so that all of you out there can keep up with the current projects I am involved with. Just recently I finished shooting a promo for Vuzu, the New Go Channel. The footage is in post. Above are some of the behind the scenes' pics. We shot on the Panasonic HVX200, lighting the location with kino's from above.

As soon as the footage has been edited, it will be posted. Currently they are busy with the sound mix.

The promo is to be used as a working tool to pitch the series "Industry". Which is about 4 young guys trying to make it in Cape Town's Entertainment/ Film Industry. A series with a Entourage feel but with a more rustic Office, Extras Look.