Nearly One Week To Go

We now have lights, marquees, generators, food, lights, marquees, generators.... well ...we have quite alot sorted, and still a bit to go.

On Monday Dan and I test and built the GlideCam (well Dan built it and read the instructions, i re-arranged the studio into what a marquee may look like with chairs and fake tables)....either way it took about 3 hours to complete and eventually we had a system that was stable and could move the camera around without it jogging when Dan took a leap. We then took it apart again and put it back together within 1 minute 30. Again I say we......but Dan was the master of the machine, I was the master of the budget, walki talki purchase, and smoke machine hire. The GlideCam (GlideCam 2500 Pro as it should be known) uses counterbalance, centre of gravity and alot of weights positioned in a number of ways in order to make sure when you move with your camera the camera glides along.....incredibly they managed to call the Glidecam exactly after what it does, what a coincidence!!!

Tomorrow Dan, Jenna and I are going back to the coast for a reccee on the beach and Weald and Downland. We are shooting back there on November 1st so checking out the best place to erect a marquee and other things....such as where to get the best shot! It's getting rather exciting how close we are to shooting, just hope it all goes to plan.

We've had some wonderful feedback by people form this blog about donating marquees and further equipment so thank you to everyone and I will get in contact soon in reply to your e-mails if i haven't already!

We'll make sure we take a few pictures on the day tomorrow!

Jenna is a bit scared to make a blog entry, something about something, but we have had around 170 extras apply to be on the set of Roanoke for the first two days alone, how wonderful is that! Sadly we can't accommodate for everyone however it's flattering for the interest.


On a final note we are now Directors on YouTube which allows us to upload larger videos, and have our logo branded and channels for independent film! Expect a few previous productions to be shown soon!

Should get some sleep before i drive to the coast tomorrow,

love,
Bertie

OH! and I had a great meeting with Adam from fleet pond today and everything looks set to go well in regards to that aspect! For those who are not aware Fleet = Roanoke in terms of the script!

right then! bye!