I'd been in Verona quite a while and I'd got involved in all sorts. One of the little projects I had was student radio. Now radio isn't really what I want to go into full-time, no, that would be television, but as the University of Verona didn't have a TV station, radio was certainly the next best thing.
Still I'm not one to go down without a fight and decided that the solution to my problems was to do a few films and videos to accompany certain episodes of our highly successful show. We did it all - CSI:Verona, Star Wars, Top Gear - they may not have gone viral, but they were so much fun to film.
Having said all of this, we were limited by a number of issues:
1. We were using my poxy digital camera that makes people sound like they're lisping when they talk.
2. We were using very basic editing software - no Oscar nominations for us.
3. We were in Verona.
Now why does being in Verona hamper our chances at making a decent film? Locations.
Fair enough CSI:Verona was set in Verona, but Star Wars wasn't. We had to trawl the city looking for the Death Star, Cloud City, Tattooine, Jabba's Palace, the Millenium Falcon and so on...
In the end we used what we could and it turned out ok. George Lucas isn't quaking in his space boots, but considering the things we were up against, it's not too shabby. We categorised all the scenes and worked out what we could film where and set to it. My friend lived in a reasonably plain flat which became Cloud City, the Death Star, the Millenium Falcon, and many, many more places.
It seemed only right, therefore, that at the end of this escapade we jumped to celebrate.
Using the Force
Verona, Italy, 2010
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