The Golden Hinde
Ahh Sunday...a time to relax.
Unless you're part of a crew shooting a 16th Century production.
Instead of relaxing, watching Chelsea play Man Utd, or London Wasps play Leicester (as Dan and myself would have liked respectively!) we were on a boat filming 30+ scenes in only 6 hours.
Because of the sheer amount we had to do, we split into 2 units. Bertie, Gary, George and myself taking one unit; Dan, Jenna, Shane and Karl taking the other, while Angela travelled between both taking a lot of pictures (I'm sure some will be posted soon!)
Bertie also managed to keep track of what had been shot and what we had left to shoot on both units all day!
We arrived at the boat at about 11am, getting all our stuff together and meeting cast and crowd as they arrived. We started shooting at 1.30, and by 3.30 we were behind schedule, but only by 1 scene!
We managed to pick this up however, and both units combined at about 5.00 to shoot the final night scenes. We finished shooting at 7.15, and were off the boat by 7.30, thanks largely to the efforts of the cast and crowd who helped pack up all the equipment except what we were using.
All in all the day went well, though at times it was quite stressfull! When the cast weren't shooting they managed to pass the time in the pub across the road, keeping up to date with the football, and throughout the day we gathered quite a crowd! helped a lot by new cast member Ryan's cries of 'Land Ho!', and enthusiastic ringing of the ships bell!
Everyone involed did a fantastic job on what was one of the most difficult days we've had so far, and I felt it went very well, and found the day an enjoyable, if sometimes tiring experience. Even though I missed the rugby!
And with that done we have only 5 days of shooting left on Roanoke: The Lost Colony!
1 comment:
Speaking as one of the extras i have to say it was a brilliant day, the whole crew worked very well together and i was impressed with the professionalism shown by everyone on set, be it the cast who have spent some time together or the extras like myself who only joined that day. In fact i think the only non professional bit i can think of was playing the crust game (if you dont know then dont ask) but brilliant day shooting and i would be thrilled if i was ever asked to work with any of these people again!!
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