That’s a wrap!

We got the final shots of SToA in the can today (at lunchtime and after work).

I was a bit sad as I managed to get some of my work colleagues into an establishing shot of Dr Crabtree’s University, but unfortunately the camcorder let us down and it’s a bit out of focus (the curse of not using DV Rack). However, other shots we did inside came out a treat (strange coincidence, they announced on the news that the college I went to was granted University status yesterday – so it much have been a day for completing beginnings, ‘finis et origo’ as Jess would say).

I’m so close to getting a final draft edit it’s painful. I just have to tidy up the Mr Widdershin’s bookshop scene and we’re just about there. I have no idea how long it’s going to end up – I’m guessing about 20 minutes, so I’ll need to do a lot more trimming and tweaking yet, but at least it should give me some idea of whether the story actually works or not.

I’m tempted to give it the old two week lie fallow period, try to get some sort of distance from it – immerse myself in writing son-of-Architurus (I had some good ideas for the main theme of that this morning while I was watching my son try to get down from the breakfast table). And I suppose Daz will need a few weeks to play with ideas for the music… Yup, that’s what I’ll do.