Photos - Holloway Road location

This is all very exciting. David dropped off the photos from the Natalie segment this past Sunday. I won't say too much except how fantastic they all look. This is why you have a real photographer.
Looking at these made me realise how much we managed to accomplish in 3 days.
All photos by David Boulogne.













It all starts with planning...My friend Rob tries to keep it organised as Azahara tries to track the art direction.













Hmmm.













Perhaps we should start here?













I am not sure JC has ever lit the inside of a refrigerator before.













Hu measures them up...













Flora and I talk about it. Here Claire has moved into the flat and is becoming part of the place.













Notice the flatness of the light and colour. JC went low-key to work with the location and the story. Nothing big except those earrings.













Claire's sees Nick for the first time. He thinks it is Natalie in the flat.













The morning after Claire has let Nick in. The relationship begins.














David has managed to make a lot better than I felt. Here I tried to work through exhaustion to explain myself again.













That's us. Roland was so much happier here than at the test shoot. Double glazing and a well-built flat.














Nick wonders who was at the door, and finds it odd that she refuses to say.













Because we know that it is her friend Sophie down below wondering what she is doing with her life. Here Emma, as Sophie, seems very far away.














A view from Natalie's bedroom window.

Shooting update - segment 1

A short note as I am still recovering from the 3-day shoot this past weekend.
It all went very well. I cannot complain about anything except a little more time would've been nice. The camera performed brilliantly except for a rattle where the mag attached to the camera. We are getting that looked at.
Yesterday JC and I went to iLab to see the rushes. They looked for beautiful. Fuji film was very impressive, especially the 250T, which picked up a lot more detail in the shadows than we imagined. You could really see why you shoot film. Latitude. We could've been bolder and taken a lot more chances with the film than we did. I guess we are too used to shooting video.
David was shooting stills on the Sunday and Monday so when he sends me a selection I will post them along with a lot more detail.
Thanks to everyone who worked with me on this first segment. And thanks to Vaugn at iLab and the people at Fuji for helping us out.

The test

So, this past Tuesday we shot our first test. The test part revolves around the aspect ratio, 2:1, relative to a fairly fast film, 250D corrected for tungsten. Grainy, yes, but how grainy? We took advantage of the situation to try to also grab Scene 14, check out the camera, and generally just get up to speed for the our first location on May 9th-12th.
Tomorrow JC comes over to test another stock, 160T, but this will be a more conventional test of all the lenses, etc.
And pre-production for the May9th-12th weekend continues.
Some photos from the test...












Katrine (playing Natalie) gets some make-up from Beth.

















JC (standing) and Hu set up the camera. This is very exciting as this is the first time I have used this camera, which I bought back in the autumn.



















And then the first position, on the street. A difficult situation. We are not certain we managed to get any good sound from here, with all the traffic, sirens, and airplanes.













Here Roland looks a little happier as we set up the second position, away from the street, where we should get some useful sound.
Azahara, art direction, is on the left.



















Hu does that camera thing.















Just setting up the second position, while...



















...Flora (Claire) tries to put on a brave face in the rain and cold.
We were fortunate as the rain, which had been coming and going all afternoon long paused while we grabbed these two shots. An hour after we dropped the heavens opened up again.