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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 2
I remembered two things from the previous day: we did a bunch of props shopping in the morning, and I found out what ‘Chicken Fried Steak’ is. On reflection I could happily have seen out my days...
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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 3
This is going to be another day of your wondering just what we were doing in the US. Running around filming demos in pretty places, certainly, but surely there’s more to it than that? There is, but…...
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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 4
This film interleaves several stories, then brings them together (we hope) neatly at the end. There’s the obvious ‘Alom’s road trip summer holiday’, but there’s also the story of that bottle you’ve...
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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 5
It’s rare to film a script in page order: usually one records whichever bits fit the schedule rather than adhering to the script. This becomes mightily confusing, but not so confusing that one can...
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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 6
One of the things you typically do when you’re making a documentary is scout out locations ahead of time. The recce is a crucial time-saver, but this project clearly didn’t have the budget for it....
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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 7
Today was nuts. It went a little something like this: Day 7 – Tuesday 20th August – Death Valley and Las Vegas 07:30 – Back at Rhyolite, re-shooting all the stuff we did the night before. It looked a...
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Demo: The Movie – Production blog 8
I mentioned a couple of days ago that we didn’t shoot this film in order. Today was why. The last time Alom or I set up a shoot like this we got to start phone calls with lines like, “Hello, my name’s...
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Demo: The Movie – Production blog 9
Our destination all along had been – and this isn’t really a spoiler, honest – the Exploratorium in San Francisco. My previous visit to the Western US had been effectively a pilgrimage to their...
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Demo: The Movie – Production blog 10
Like the previous Monday, we’d schedule today as a day off. Also like the previous Monday: aye, right. Day 10 – Friday 23rd August – San Francisco We headed back to the Exploratorium to pick up all the...
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Demo: The Movie – Production Blog 11
Thought we’d wrapped shooting last night? Nope. It’s never that simple. Day 11 – Saturday 24th August – San Francisco and home We’d filmed every scene in the script, every bit of dialogue (well, apart...
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