Yes, at about 10 past 5 on Wednesday 21st May 2008, I shot the last piece of film (Hi def DV) for the movie "Much Ado About Lauren". Exactly 9 months to the day after filming began! In Tom and Simon's bedroom!
I can't say it was that emotional, we had been waiting ages for the right conditions to shoot in and the actors involved were in a big hurry to get away (as has been the pattern with almost every shot of this film!)
But I think that's what also gives it it's charm and sense of realism. Using actual A level students to play A level students in their own school. All have busy lives, jobs to do and exams to revise for!
The film is going to be around one hour fifty minutes including credits (we've now gone to Back To The Future Lengths, but we don't have a time travelling Delorean!!)
We shot the finale, took a while, and I discovered the mike battery, after 9 months had decided to pack up, but I looped the important dialogue last week and all is well.
So now it is time to refine, edit, fix and put in the music, songs by Steve Warner (possibly also a couple from Paul Wade) and the superb score penned by the legend that is Chris Bass.
This has been a pretty long road, but hey, we've made a movie. I think it's good! You live with something for so long, you can forget why you started to make it in the first place.
Well, I loved high school movies when I was a teenager, and I wanted to make one, I actually just wanted to make a film. Realising the talent available through my connections with Simon, his friends, his school and his family! Why not go for it!
Hoping to send it off to 5 film festivals next week. Let's let others decide if it's any good or not!
There's the small matter of the world premiere of my new play opening today, which I am so glad my family from Wales are coming across to enjoy, and the new Indiana Jones movie to see!
What a busy life, but what a good life.
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