Gabby: Also it become so draining to have a room full of people looking for you for direction. When there was just James and myself, it felt like that pressure was temporarily lifted.
James: Seeds of thought pop into my mind – could we do a feature with two crew?!
The weather obstacle is a film-maker’s nightmare. Our schedule starts to slip and we lose all the street sequences. We desperately tried to salvage something from the day, so we reshuffled Mike’s office scenes with Si for that night. Fortunately Tim Dobson could make it in, and we get through these scenes easily.
Gabby: When James says easily, it was actually incredibly hard for me to hold the camera still from laughing. Chris and Tim had great chemistry together and this made it really fun to film.
James: The effect is two-fold. Firstly, the crew morale improves once a new face emerges. Secondly, the ease of shooting the scenes frees up Chris Tajah to go home early. It sparks enthusiasm; we are getting through the project, and indeed pass the halfway mark in the script.
Gabby: My only criticism would be retrospectively, I wish we had a little more coverage of these scenes. We where quite cocky with a lot of our filming and with these scenes we were confident that we could put them in the scenes as one long shot. However there were element of certain scene that just weren’t quite right and not having those shot made life difficult to cut the scenes down. Saying this I do not regret the arrogant decisions we made, it was this confidence that meant that we took on such a large project with such little resources, maybe just a little more planning with our cockiness and we would have had the right mix.
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