Shooting Day 1

Well, we have some footage "in the can"! We shot four scenes around the Wade residence today. Had a great time. Shot in bedroom, stairs, hallway, out front and on the roof of a car! It is great working with my good friends Simon And Tom, and indeed Kathryn (the boys Mum) who has a role in the movie! Quite a stretch playing their Mum! Steven became boom operator for the shoot and Terry became our driver when we headed over to Milton Keynes to pick up our lighting from Jessops (add another £199 to the budget!)

Had to contend with gardeners and noise but all went well. Particularly pleased when we watched the footage back. Hi def at 25fps looks really good, widescreen and approaching cinema feel (well as close as you can get without a budget of around £50,000.) Tom injured his toe! Climbing onto the roof of the car! But he soldiered on.

Casting has gone well, particularly pleased to be working with such a great bunch from St. George's School. Auditions were good, but difficult decisions had to be made. I think we have found a great Lauren, Becky, Justin and more!!

Saw "Run Fatboy Run" tonight and really enjoyed it! Laughing out loud and a real feelgood movie (though it should have ended with a wedding!) Simon Pegg is great as so was Dylan Moran. A great British Comedy! With nothing to do with Richard Curtis!
I would give it 4 Peggs out of 5.

As research for our movie we earlier in the week (on my 37th birthday!) went to see, "Superbad." And it wasn't good. The characters were way funnier than the movie. Some of it was a little too over the top in the crudeness department, it was 20 mins too long and there seemed to be little inventiveness and actual comedic skill in the writing. Though I do like some of the actors, I just think there is a better vehicle out there for them somewhere.

2 Supes out of 5

I have to say, our movie, is going to be almost the total opposite to the "Superbad" mentality, call it "inventive reasonably clean fun." Although we wouldn't mind a slice of their 200 million worldwide and counting!

The computer is fixed. Almost everything blew! It had nothing to do with hi def footage, just a coincidence it decided to burn up from the inside there and then. So the £487 bill to fix it (and in some ways improve it) is not part of the filming budget. Glad to get back to work "doing" different videos for Church etc.

We have a boom mike! For sound! A pleasant accident really. Bought a stereo adaptor for mike (£4.96) and an extension lead for mike (£6.49) we also have a light refractor which, well, refracts light! Big and round and white, or silver or gold.