A funny ol' week

after a good pre-production period, the start of the first shooting weekend was a damage limitation exercise.

Pearl Legay Clarke pulled out of filming on 17th Feb leaving us short a Dr. Luminal a week before her scenes were being filmed. The day after, my agreement to face cast Peter over the weekend fell through with yvonne boyle due to some misunderstanding on Yvonnes end. I was also told by majority of university staff it would be impossible to film on the university premises on the weekend. So a challenge accepted I set about to change these problems!

i asked Kiara to email a list of actors I sent her who had applied for either alice or luminal earlier. I then asked Andrew to see Peter Dillon about any actors he knew of who were of a good calibre. After A mass emailing an actor, Sally Collett replied, who we will audition (and most likely cast) on Monday.

I bought in some replacement liquid latex, rigid collodien & assorted pariphernalia needed to do a quick head cast, however I managed in the end to persuade Peter to come back up again later at the star of march to film the bulk of his scenes & to do the head cast.

I rang around the different departments of the university and managed to Beg/Borrow favours from some helpful staff members (Hazel reynolds & Brenda Arkley were heroes) managed to rent out the main Conferencing room for a pre-production meeting on Friday, rent out a room in the library & a room in Ellison building for saturday & sunday.

some of our equipment had been locked in the pre-production meeting room on friday evening, so I spent much time ringing porters to access the room. There was no access to the greenscreen we needed to use, so I had to quickly erect a greenscreen from many pieces of emerald green A1 card. We filmed some animation reference shots of peter clatworthy & then persuaded him to take the next day off & head back in March.