Something goes right

Haven't posted for a while as I've been waiting on a couple of things sorting themselves out. Well, not just any old couple of things, but a DP and a date. Just little things.

Late last week I went for meeting with Mike Eley, top notch DP of Touching the void, who has just got back from two months filming in Lithuania or Latvia or somesuch place that's cold. Told him about the film, and about why we need a world famous DP to shoot it. For some unearthly reason he said yes.

He's available in April, after that he's off to do a feature (like everyone else, bastards), so today Kearney got in touch with those lovely people at PFD, who confirmed that Kieran O'Brien is free (at the moment) in April. So, with a very faint pencil in case it needs to be rubbed out many, many times, our shoot is booked for the 18th April. Somehow, with no money, indeed no promise of money, we have an outstanding actor and an outstanding DP. Thank God as Kearney and I are clearly morons.

Panavision, on their web site, keep talking about how they want to help young film makers. Good for them. Will they be able to help me in the way of providing a cheap rate for their HD camera I wonder? Much as I'd love to shoot film I think this is out of the question on our non existent budget. The camera hire should be OK, but stock and processing would kill us, especially when we have to feed everyone somehow (sorry there's no hot food, we had to buy another roll of film). So hopefully we'll shoot it on Hi Def and then transfer to a film print, just like George Lucas does. Except our film will have less Jedi action. At least in this draft it does.

So we have a DP, we have an actor and we have a date. Still need camera, stock, location, wardrobe, etc, etc. Three down, seventy four to go.