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onsetTV™ - page 2 of 3
QuickTime video updated every Sunday whilst filming.
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On the set 'Weekly' reports... How... What... Where... How did the day go? Who got fired? Who walked off set? Are we going over budget? Has the money dried up? Are the producers trying to replace me with their girlfriend's best friend? All the politics of filmmaking, in the raw, week by week.
(please click on the photos to view the movies)
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Neil Rigby, teaches Ed how not to do it...
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1st Roadblock shoot at Woolwich Arsenal.
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I'd been talking to quite a few TV cameramen hoping I could find someone to oversee Edmunds camera movements, but I had forgotten that my Gaffer, Neil Rigby, teaches 'Media Production' at 'Liverpool Community College'...
Thanks quickly to the 'Professional Media Department' for bits and bobs...
In the morning at Woolwich Arsenal I suddenly heard lots of screaming... I thought it was an argument with the extras... Then gossip started to filter through that it was Neil, my gaffer from 'Dark Summer' training Edmund, I finally walked over to find a Peter McMullen a TV Cameraman, not an actor... I was so pleased... Thanks Neil... |
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As per usual the day was an uphill struggle, we ended up starting late due to partly due to the action vehicle company not have the correct address and partly due to everyone, including myself, not being up to speed... Again we had weather problems in the afternoon... The production stopped for about 2 hours while we waited for cloud cover but at the end of the day I was very happy with what we had accomplished... The actors and Boris where the real stars of the day...
Thanks to Peter Chalcroft at Woolwich Arsenal for doing us a special deal and to the Esperanto Translators, Terry Page & Martin Morris and to Norah Brown, Prezidanto - Londona Esperanto-Klubo. |
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Scout Helicopter and Mass Grave
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Refugee Extras
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On Monday the amazing Scout helicopter arriving at 10.00am... Gail, through her friend James Wakeford, had managed to get the guys to come down and have some fun... The 1st take I was so excited and fazed, I forget to turn the camera on... Luckily the continuity was out...
Thanks to all at Kennett Aviation for the Scout Helicopter, including Tim Manna, Phil Shaw, Peter Walker & James Wakeford
Thanks to James, Guy and Douglas Ryder at Remstone Forest Estate for allowing us to use their fantastic woodland and being so helpful.
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The filming of the refugee scene was something totally special, thanks to all the 'Special Extra Coordinators': Fadil Maqedonci, Dobrica Ghossain, Boris Glavocevic, Suzana Tamamovic, Azra Saric, Ibrahim Ajeti, Alex Cvetojevic and Nela Milic... And of course the extras themselves and Karin Strandberg for getting real people, not extras...
I had been busily setting up the shot but when I finally went up to the ridge to talk to the extras I totally broke down... It was a combination of; seeing all these people together again from different fractions... One of the girls said in the afternoon, 'It was like it used to be...', that meant more to me than the film... It's some thing good and real that has already come out of the film... Also after 5 years of thinking about the scene, seeing it become real... These people came down because they believed in the idea of the film... That really is a very heavy burden, which I feel continuously... Thanks again to everyone who helped make the scene possible... |
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Refugee Camp
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Apocalype Dorset
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To be honest I found this scene very difficult to film and there's a slight possibility that I might have to re-shoot. The trouble was that I had seen another location the night before, on the Remstone Forest Estate, which would have been better suited for the scenes actions.
In the end I had to weigh up the nightmare logistics of moving 70 to 80 people, equipment and 7 toilets, 2 miles... In hind site I should have made that call... Because of the difficulties of the terrain and me getting my angles, the filming went very slowly and we ended up being very late... Not terrible in its self but there were children on the set and it was getting cold and everyone had to be taken back to London, which was about 4 hours away...
A very special thank you and my apologies to all the extras and the 'Special Extra Coordinators': Fadil Maqedonci, Dobrica Ghossain, Boris Glavocevic, Suzana Tamamovic, Azra Saric, Ibrahim Ajeti, Alex Cvetojevic and Nela Milic... And of course Karin Strandberg and the Production team.
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Some people have said the whole Bank Holiday weekend was a nightmare, others have said its the most enjoyable intense time they have ever had and they will never forget it...
Try and imagine, 40 plus people living in tents on a camp site for 5 days in Dorest... Then add to that anywhere between 30 and 80 extras, which have to be fed 3 times a day, arriving in the morning and leaving well into the night by coach, every day...
Then add a Russian convoy, a helicopter, 2 base camps, 40 Eastern European costumes, 70 Refugee outfits, about 20 tents, an army kitchen... It just goes on and on and on... All on a budget which you wouldn't even shoot a low budget music promo for...
Crazy... Totally crazy... TOTALLY F***ING CRAZY... But we believed we could do it and we did it... Even though the logistical nightmare was mind blowing...
To be honest there are just too many people to thank here... Everyone listed on the Credits page, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping to make my dream become a reality...
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Peter's London Apartment
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Building Sets in Liverpool
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Funny enough the shoot at Peter’s Apartment was one of the most enjoyable days... sorry nights... sorry day and nights... for me...
But it all started out very badly... We arrived, about 20 of us, cast and crew... At the show flat that, Jonathan had got for us... I went up to suss the apartment out i.e. where to put the lighting and camera equipment... but when I flicked the light switch there was no juice... Nothing to do with us but the power supply had been cut a few hours previous... This how generally shooting in London went... Boris, the star he is, managed to unscrew a padlock on the ground floor where the supply was, and came back to me saying “Get me half a hour and I rig up some power...” Mean time, I think it was me, I went and checked the rest of the flat out with a torch... Sorry but we have a shower scene... THERE IS NO WATER!... (contined in my "Online Diary') |
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In a way Liverpool was another case of total lunacy... This time with 6 major sets, hardly any props, a Russian T-62 Battle Tank, real AK-47's firing blanks, 25 teenage soldiers, stunts, fires, explosions and a girl being shot point blank in the stomach...
You can follow our adventures in my 'Online Diary' by clicking the following links: Finding Liverpool Locations, Liverpool Part 1 and Liverpool Part 2. The story is also covered with 154 photos and my commentary.
Thanks to all the new crew, everyone at FBM Babcock (Lairdside) Ltd. including Paul Carver, Director at Granby Martin Chartered Surveyors & Joyce Owens. Plant: Len Boniface, Eddie O’Connor, Dave Jobber, John Breen (Big John) Security: Robin French, Ken Coghlan, Marshall Proudlove, Brian Lynch, Paul White, Alan Taylor, Ray Taylor, Mick Maher.
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