Am buggered so shan’t stay long.
This morning’s set-ups were delayed by technical issues: a car-rig that had to be adjusted for changing light, then compounded by a lens adaptor that wasn’t as rock solid as expected. After five hours of rigging, it was all ditched for hand-held coverage from within the car. The DOP was not happy. I told everyone who’d listen that my next film would consist of two people in a room and nothing else.
As you’d expect, time spent on the morning’s set-ups meant that there was less time for the afternoon’s set-ups. Mr Meikle and his gaffer, Mr Eversden, raced not only the fading light, but spotty clouds, big clouds, clouds with frustratingly uneven breaks of blue, and so forth. Add to that being on the Auckland Airport flightpath, and soundman Mr Rea was forced to pause proceedings when necessary.
No fun at the time. But fun in retrospect ’cause we still met our day (well, I think we ran ten minutes over). So a pretty rockin’ day, atcherly.
Time for noddy land.
