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 that’.
Twenty five years later, I got there.
And here she is in all her glory, quite possibly the only surviving photo(!) of the Mistress of the Marsh… All respect to Amber for making Vickie look fantastic, and Vickie for making Gertrude better than I ever imagined. The footage came out nicely, but I’m a bit spoilt for choice on what to do with it – I want to mess it up a bit, but I’ve found three of four ways of doing that I like… Think I’ll wait until the rest of it is shot and then see what works best.
We also shot the news report that Jess and Alice watch on the TV. No direction required for this one, Chris just let rip with a tirade of humourous ad-libbing. Will Ferrell’s got nothing on the dry northern wit of this guy…
It’s taken me three days to get this post up because I’ve been fighting a really annoying piece of spyware. I thought I was going to have to reload the whole damn thing, but thanks to Microsoft’s new Spyware remover, AdAware and some common sense, I finally beat the bugger into submission. Never thought I’d be so grateful to Bill Gates, but he was certainly being toasted this evening!
On top of that, my son and my wife have spent the last two nights awake with nasty sick bugs. Must… sleep… now…