James: Gabs comes in to do the digitising whilst I show prospective students around the University. Gab and I have an informal agreement that she is better at editing than myself and I did the writing, so she’ll head up the post-production process. I note in my diary that I […]
Monthly archives: June 2005
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James: Gabs and I finally sit down to start editing Peppermint. It is almost a month after the shoot finished, but until now we haven’t had the heart to even face the project. I think we still loathe it and don’t want to touch it. This frustration boils up over […]
James: Gab and Toby head back to London and drop the kit back at the hire company and I realise that I have been charged twice on the camera filters, so I get on to them about returning the money to my card so I can have some cash. Gabby: […]
James: Jen’s exterior scenes go down relatively easily. We are incredibly pleased with the public toilet sequence and get really excited that we have a film on our hands. I’m relieved that in the space of 7 days and two half days we have made this all happen. Gabby: That […]
Gabby: We squeezed in the re-shoot first thing, then went on to shoot the throwing up scene in the toilet using a concoction of cold soups…poor Jen. James: The major scene for the Sunday was in the classroom. The University drama head David Broster agreed to play Mr Bennett and […]
James: After seven consecutive days of shooting the last thing you want to contend with are school children. But for the whole, the students were great. Olivia Corrie and Zak Lee enjoyed their short but concise parts. We had by this stage pretty much turned the ship around, and morale […]
James: The crew is just myself, Gabs and Larry for the old people’s home section. Carl Edmed and I had sought the location earlier in the week one day after filming. It was too small for much more crew to fit. Speaking for myself, I felt these scenes went down […]
James: With the weather holding up we manage to get the scenes in town. I take to doing the sound again as it is quite tricky. I enjoy mixing and recording immediately, and wish I wasn’t the director. Tough shit James. Gabby: This is a setup we are used to; […]
James: We started day four inside my beloved little flat for the bathroom shots. It is just Gab and I at this stage as we are giving the crew/removal men a break, and the simplicity feels like bliss. The crew were amazing, but there is a certain amount of time […]