I forgot to mention the other day that we have now got Mr Widdershins cast, ready for shooting this weekend. As it turns out, it’s the manager of the bookshop in which we’re filming this Sunday. Double bonus.
To be honest, I kicked myself when I first met John (for ’tis his name), as I’d only just sent the copy of the script to Ken Colley. Had I gone to the bookshop a day earlier I could have save myself a little bit of bother. Nonetheless, Ken Colley it seems is off doing some movie or another and so we were able to approach John who was more than willing to give the part a go.
Vickie and I met up with him on Tuesday lunchtime for a quick read through, and I think he’s perfect for the part. He has a very good voice, and being one who seems knowledgeable in more esoteric matters, the part could have been written about him as well as for him.
We’re off to the flat to shoot the remainder of the Jess and Alice scenes tomorrow and then on to the Bookshop in Folkestone on Sunday. That’ll be interesting as Vickie is only available ’til 11 o’ clock, so we’ll need to shoot all her stuff first then do the reverse angles when she’s gone, which will be interesting.
After that, there are just a few more shots I want to get in and around Hythe next week (we’ll do that in out lunch hours, it’ll only need me, Nic and Vickie and we all work at the same place).
Speaking of Nic, I hope she keeps going tomorrow, she flew back from New York this morning where she has been holidaying for the past week, so she’ll no doubt be jetlagged. With the bombs in London yesterday I was worried whether she’d get back at all, but we Brits are a resilient bunch and everything seems pretty much back to normal today.
Daz got caught up in the awful events slightly yesterday. He was on the tube when the bombs went off and the train stopped short of Mansion House station. He had to walk up the track to the station proper. Scary stuff.
I’ve got my friend Bill in the States working on the web site to back the film up. I only asked him to do it this afternoon and he’s already come back with some awesome concept artwork for the site. Magic.
I panicked a bit as Louise announced to me this afternoon that she’s arranged a press interview next week for me. I realised they may well print something in the local paper about the project next thursday, so we’d need to get a basic web site up and running pronto. Watch this space!
On the writing front, I’ve got my second Architurus draft all StoryViewed up, and ready to develop. The Dramatica storyform has thrown up some interesting propositions which’ll take some thinking about… I just can’t decide who the bad guys should be – I know what they should do and their reasons for doing it, but for dramatic purposes I don’t know whether they should be an external group trying to affect the main characters, or it should be someone from the main group of characters behind their activities. My intuition says the latter, but I can’t quite decide who (or if it’s a new character, what).