author & screenwriter
It might seem an odd question. ‘How important is the script?’ But more and more I’m seeing and hearing stories about times when changes are being made to the script on the fly, only for it to end up in the editing room and, suddenly, the story makes no sense. The answer is: ‘It depends’. …
For Day One, Part One, click here!For Day One, Part Two, click here!For Day Two, Part One, click here! Sorry for the delay between posts – I’ve only been able to grab snippets at the computer for the last fortnight. Where we we? Oh, the choir practising Christmas Carols or suchlike out in the back …
For Day One, Part One, click here!For Day One, Part Two, click here! Day Two dawned chilly. I woke up early as I wanted to hit up our location at about 8.30am to start dressing the set – it was the one day that we had proper set dressing. I’d mocked up a bunch of …
Catch up on Part One here. Knowing that Markus had the kind of giggles that makes everything hilariously funny, I took him out of the room, off set and calmed him down away from the rest of the cast and crew. He managed to regain enough composure to continue on with the scene – he …
Day one of With A Little Help From Our Friends was a late start. Because the location we’d managed to get was a theatre school, they had students in there until 1pm. So we scheduled the call time to be at 1pm on Saturday and we planned to wrap at 5pm and shoot two (and …
Wow. So it’s two days after we’ve wrapped and the dust has settled and all the cast and crew have headed back into normality. The shoot went really well, regardless of problems that cropped up here and there and we got everything we needed to shoot shot, so that’s always a good thing. I am …