Another long delayed update, sorry. What’s been happening?
Well, Vince Pope (from Beetroot Music) is busy doing the music for the film. I sat down in the studio with him last week (Tuesday 9th June) to see what direction the music needed to go into. Watching the film with the rough music ideas was exciting. Music is so important.
I’ve been editing the poster a bit and got one printed out (for £45!). It looks great though, so I’ve made some tweaks to it, and will be sending it off to a print factory to get a whole lot of them printed out.
Yesterday I met up with Pete Wallington outside City Hall (London) to take some plates of the city that I’ll be compositing into the backgrounds (as we originally filmed on the Northbank). Talking of compositing, I’ve also met up with Chris Andrews who I’ll be working together with on the visual effects for this film. It’s going to be epic because of his work load, but I’m confident.
I’ve already started on some of the more easier ones like compositing in televisions. Oh, and if you’re interested, here’s an image of the poster. The detail is probably to small to see properly at such a low resoultion, but it’s actual size is 30 by 40 inches; massive!
Click on the image to enlarge.
I lay in bed for a few hours, trying to sleep. When I finally felt like going to sleep, it was time for me to have a shower and get ready to leave! This time, my brother didn’t want to come, so I had to pack up the car with food and drink for the crew myself. I was running a bit late; I had told Andrew Ormes I would be at his house at 3am (it was now 3.10am).
I started up my car, and began to drive off. As I was driving, there was an unhealthy noise, so I parked the car and got out to check. My tyre was punctured! I ran back home. My mum told me to take her car, but then I had to bring my own car back to my road to park it in a safe place and transfer all the bits and bobs I needed to take. Long.
After that panic, and a few puffs of my asthma inhaler, I was off in my mum’s big car. I really dislike driving it, but I had no choice.
This was our last day of shooting, and it was all (mostly) in a cafe. We were filming at Fly One Cafe on Copthall Avenue (London). We started off with a few night time shots of Ted looking into the cafe.
Claire and the extras arrived for 6am. I couldn’t get any extras because of such an early start and because of closures on the underground, so I had to use Rob (Claire’s boyfriend), Vijay (the owner of the cafe), my mum, my aunty Amina, Andrew Ormes and Andrew Ormerod.
Everything went well and smooth. Our sound recordist, Clare Edmans, was feeling unwell and had to leave early, but we had shot all the dialogue and important sound stuff already. We then went out to shoot a few shots of Drew running around in the streets.
And that’s it. That was a wrap. It feels really odd. I’m feeling upset that next week I won’t be meeting my cast and crew and doing a ridiculous night shoot. They made my first live-action film experience great and enjoyable.
Thank you to all the cast and crew on Shattered Pieces.
Now, it’s months of post-production. 
Here’s some production stills taken by Andrew Ormerod:
