Nightshift

James: It is Thursday and tonight we will be chasing a milkman around London. We need a driver as neither Gabby or I drive, and we need to concentrate on filming. No-one is up for it, except an old friend, Lisa Brethrick. It is an easy way of earning £150 […]

James: Somehow Gabby and I managed to get in to a private screening of the final Lord of the Rings film, and took time out from Nightshift. Jackson making those three films must of had a pile of patience to deal with all that. Making these three has been hard […]

James: So, two days after our first shoot and we are out again. This time it was Tim, the DJ, at BRMB. Once again, all went smoothly. Tim was great, a wonderful talent. The sense was that this process was just so overwhelmingly easy. Gabby and I as our own […]

James: There is nothing scheduled for the Sunday night, but we run out with the camera anyway and film so exterior night shots that can be dropped into the projects. I guess it was just out of fear of not having enough. We certainly ended up using some of them, […]

James: Our first day of filming is at ATP Taxis in Dulwich. Our contact, Steve Hardwick, is the kindest guy we could hope for. We basically had the rule of the roost. He gave us food, he gave us a lift around London, he gave us whatever we wanted. He […]

James: Gabby and I had emailed a kit list to Maverick and they felt it was excessive. When we turned up to meet our production manager, Helen Jenks, we found we had no sound mixer, and no fishpole to attach our gun mic to! We were provided with a Sony […]

James: Getting BRMB gave us an idea. We were up in the daytime trying to get people to agree to film their nightshifts. They were presumeably in bed whilst we were calling. So we decided to email radio stations with a request to read out our requirements. Indeed, this is […]

James: We urgently set about calling companies for contributors and hit an immediate brick wall. Office cleaners at night didn’t want us filming, security firms didn’t want us either. It was rejection after rejection. So we targeted medium sized businesses, and it all became unstuck. We got a welsh milkman, […]

James: We are scheduled to meet Claire Welch and Jonnie Turpie at the Custard Factory offices at 15.15. Maverick are in the process of moving their premises and the whole place is a state. Our meeting is mixed. Claire Welch, the Head of Production, believed that there wasn’t enough time […]