Jon rang by about 11 with news of our title: Back Alleyway, our one line: ‘OK, this is weird, I just typed your name and you appeared’, and a prop: an A4 piece of paper which someone needed to write N, S, E, W pm and rip into 4 pieces. I won’t tell you what we came up with because I’d like to post the youtube link up on here at some stage when it’s been uploaded.
We bounced a few ideas around then wrote a few down each for fleshing out. Hayley and Jon returned and we discussed our ideas and eliminated any that weren’t good enough, that were too complicated for a 5 minute film, or that we didn’t have the resources to pull off.
Once we had an idea of where we were going we started working on a script, it all seems so long ago now it is hard to remember the process we went through! I know we were all very awake and enthusiastic at the beginning, Jon was recording ‘The Making Of’ on his little handheld camera and there was lots of laughing and joking.
By early afternoon we had scripts and we were running through our lines and actions until nightfall. Hayley wanted to do all our filming in the dark because the ambient lighting was less likely to change. Cue a montage of us running around dressed in outlandish garb on the streets of Romford until the wee small hours and that’s Saturday gone!
Sunday I woke late to find people still going. I didn’t have much work on the second day but Hayley and Mike worked pretty much non-stop, as they had since it all kicked off the morning before. When it got dark we had to film a couple of scenes again because the lighting didn’t work for everything, or because we didn’t have time the night before. We had to dub a load of stuff too because the microphone didn’t pick up everything.
This morning I awoke to find Hayley still sitting at the PC after an hours sleep, Mike had finally decided to get some kip too and Hayley was going to give him half an hour before waking him for the last push. All they had to do was get the music sorted and get it onto DVD to hand in.
A few minutes ago I found out that they were still trying to finish it. There was a mini power cut at the house and now it won’t do the final render, I’m so worried it’s not going to happen all because of one stupid little thing right at the end, and I can’t do anything to help, all that work… it’s awful 😦
Hopefully I’ll update this very soon with news it all worked out OK…
Purplephreak's Weblog 
April 18, 2008 at 10:48 am |
Is all okay? Have a good weekend! xx