Monday, February 18, 2008

Slowy but surely

Still having trouble getting a tied down shoot date. This is the problem with having an extremely talented crew, they just keep getting work. Our main problem is with the DoP, Mike Eley, who last year shot a project for HBO called Grey Gardens. It was a huge shoot, very expensive, and now there's talk of it getting a theatrical release. All good stuff, apart from the fact they have scheduled the grade for the 8th to 18th April. Mike isn't sure if he's going to berequired for the whole thing, but he'll definitely be needed for some of it, so we're now looking at two possible start dates, the 14th or 21st of April. 14th is nice in that it means we would finish at pretty much the start of Cannes, so we could have a trailer ready with everything we shot available, even possibly a rough cut. On the other hand, the 21st looks more realistic, and gives us another (precious) week of pre-production. We should know for certain this week.

There's also some cast problems, with mutterings from one members agent. Fingers crossed we can sort this out today, but I'm sure we're in for loads of this kind of thing. Hopefully our Locations Manager and Sound Recordist will also be sorted out today.

Meanwhile we've got more excellent bands coming on board for the soundtrack. I'm doing a new draft of the script over the next two weeks and hope to make the soundtrack finalised around then. Hopefully this version will introduce a little more jeopardy for the main characters, and also I want to turn the location itself into a character. Yes, sunny Kilburn, your time has come.

Have a meeting this week with another company who may come on baord, and Alan Harris is back from his shoot in NZ so will meet up with him to hear horror stories and tips, which should be invaluable.

But most importantly this is my penultimate Monday at work. This time next week will be my last day in the office, and then it's into 100% pre-production and time to get properly terrified. Still, everytime I wonder what on earth I'm doing I just look at the schedule here and remember I don't have to worry about any of the shoots coming up, and somehow that makes everything seem just dandy.

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