Stretching
March 12th 2002 -
At last, that stretching feeling of having too much to do. I’m working on Cesura, Society Cookery 2, the Hand Relief edits, Bullet Hole, and Society Cookery 1. I feel that old sense of urgency, that old not-enough-hours-in-the-day.
Society Cookery 2
I spent yesterday running around like a crazy beast getting props for Soc. Cookery 2 – a black apron, a chef’s hat (which we didn’t end up using, oh well) a fire extinguisher, kero, a couple of wooden spoons, welder’s gloves, and lots of ingredients for the recipe we were demonstrating. Oh, and I also wrote the script at 10:00am and sent it out to all the participants. In all the fuss and frenzy, I clean forgot that I’d made an appointment with John Dalton to play tennis. Oops. In fact, I only looked at the answering machine today…
The filming
I met up with Jon & Kate at about 6:30pm for dinner, and then we scooted off to Ryan, Ben & Edwin’s place to get things going. I did a couple of trips back home to pick some stuff up that I’d forgotten, while the others set up the lights and got stuff ready, and we were finally filming at about 8:30pm. We were running three cameras at the same time, with me on one, Ben on the second, and Jon on the roving third camera, which should make editing fun. The multi-camera setup was a bit of a pain to get started – making sure the cameras couldn’t see each other, and that shadows were all out of the way – but once we were rolling it was a terrific saving in filming time. I did the directing, but it was a really simple job – everyone was energetic and motivated and the guys (Ryan, Edwin, Ben) had some great improv going. Lovely experience – even with all the fire stuff (about which we were very, very careful indeed. Nice to see after some of the more cavalier fire-safety things I’ve been involved with) we finished at about 11:30pm and then sat around and chatter for a while afterwards because we were still buzzing. Fun!