Albert Embankment

So the other night, while rioting went on in other parts of town, we had a very quiet production team meeting in London's Vauxhall. We recce’d three potential locations (one interior, two exterior) that may be workable and Katherine is going to get onto the relevant permissions people to see what sort of prices etc. we’ll be looking at.

We also split up some of the production chores so we knew who would be taking responsiblity for what tasks (although we’ll all be chipping in with it all).

So for now, Graham and Myself are concentrating on raising the funds we need and keeping the Indiegogo campaing flourishing for the final couple of weeks, not an easy task when the only topic of conversation for days has been riots and social unrest. Admittedly it concerns us all but I think most of the team choose to get on with doing what good we can instead of tutting at the bad stuff. Kathering and Greer are working on sorting dates for location recces, camera tests, rehearsals and checking who needs to be there for each, and that they are available. Juliet and Dan are getting onto sourcing potential locations and pooling photos etc. and Damien now will be leaving all the production decisions to us and getting on with more of the artistic decision making and director film prep, such as design, storyboarding etc. etc.

We have a couple of other things in the works that we’ll tell you about very shortly.

All in all we had a really productive evening and even had time for some pre-meeting drinks on a very beautiful London evening along Albert Embankment, where the sun shone hot and the river breeze was cool. It made me think of Bonzo and a moment of the film where he finds hope in the midst of his personal turmoil. I guess there is always a positive side of things there if we take the chance to search for it.

Coming away with tasks in hand that have kept the remainder of the week pretty busy for us. Hopefully meeting again very soon to check progress. *:o)