Saturday was quite possibly one of the most exhausting, exhilarating and nerve-wracking experiences of my life. For the first time ever I directed someone and captured them on camera! I have dreamt about this day ever since I saw a ‘making of Star Wars’ programme back in 197-something, and thought, ‘cool, I want to do …
Monthly Archive: May 2005
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Location, location, location
Went out onto the Romney Marsh at lunchtime scouting round for locations for a couple of scenes in the short. Found a perfect site near Aldington, then realised that Paul O’Grady could see us from his house there, so I might look elsewhere, so as not to upset anyone. The two scenes I want to …
May
23
That’s better.
Thanks to the power of DV Rack and some hard lessons learnt on Saturday, yesterdays results were much, much improved and a lot of the problems sorted out. Chris’ lights are a godsend, along with the superb microphone. Instant semi-pro results without even trying. With a bit of thought and diligence, we’re achieving results far …
May
22
I am a director!
Our first rehearsal day went extremely well yesterday. Talk about a steep learning curve though… Still, several unknown questions were answered to my satisfaction, proving that I am either a) a natural director, or (more likely) b) a spawny get. Vickie proved she was more than a capable actress, Nic proved that she has a …
May
15
Let there be light!
Chris and Louise came round last night with details of the lighting rig they’ve just brought. Rather sexy it is too. Shame I don’t have any money left to buy anything else with! No news yet from the lady at the book shop, she said she’d read the script over the weekend and get back …
May
12
The Mightiest Media
We now have our flat! We went to scout it out this evening, it’s perfect, even down to the old computer in the corner of the living room. And as the two girls who live there work in a bookshop, it’s full of books everywhere, which only adds to the effect. One of the girls …
May
08
Cutting our coat…
Met up with Louise and Chris to discuss equipment and budgets this evening. Chris has been very much for getting a HDV camera, such as the Sony Z1, which I would dearly love to have. But we realised that the funding we have secured so far leaves us with a dilemma. Either we go for …
May
04
It’s a sign!
A strange thing occurred today. As you may have seen in previous posts I mentioned a local actor, Ken Colley, who I was thinking would be good for the part of Mr Widdershins. Since then I hadn’t seen him around town at all. As Vickie and I were walking back from our lunch meeting at …
May
04
It’s definitely def, that’s (hi) def for the deaf heads…*
In the last week we’ve gone from the idea that we’ll be making nothing more than a lowly no-budget DV movie to now talking about shooting and editing completelyi in HiDef. There are some risks with this strategy, but it makes sense to future proof ourselves as quickly as possible. If the funding comes through …