THE MEANS Part 5 Days 2 & 3

THE MEANS

Part 5 Days 2&3

Getting up at the crack of dawn was a novelty for me! John (Terry) & Hugi (Lionel) travelled up with me which gave us chance to go thru lines whilst in the car... I remember Hugi struggling to pronounce "Vengence" which became a source of much myrth throughout the 2 days as we all found out how many other ways the word could be said without ever getting it right ... until the last "take" of course! The reality was that we all had something we struggled with to get right which must have tested the professionals patience to the limit!

Whilst we spent many hours "blocking out" scenes, rehearsing them and then doing several takes thus giving the editing team enough to work with.... time flew by. On the Saturday, I think we finished somewhere near midnight as we had no more time to use in this location and had to get it "wrapped up"

I found the "blocking out" sessions the most interesting...you fast realised why there were so many involved in the process. Besides cast, director and producer, you had the director of photography (DOP), who, having set the lighting for the "take" then engineered everyone into position. First cast, then camera crew and finally sound crew. Poor Sam, our boom operator, had to virtually climb an assault course to get "into place".... you had to be there really. Then there were separate "takes" working from the different actors "point of view". We easily spent an hour working on just what would ultimately be about 30 seconds of film!