the pressures of filming day!

So, it was filming day yesterday. I’ve had to cancel one date for filming already, because I had too many other things to do, what with fundraising, paid employment, and seminar presentations. So yesterday was the last date this month that Alyson could do. I felt terrible about cancelling last Friday; it means that Alyson and Sue came straight from work in the Medway area of Kent in the morning to London in the afternoon. I am very appreciative of them taking the time to help me with this.
The night before at 8pm the actor that I had hired decided that he wanted to do some other work instead, and couldn’t do the performance, even though I had booked him and was paying him, very professional!!!! He said in the e-mail, ‘Good luck with your project…’, this isn’t a project, this is my degree show!!!!! Oh well, at least I know what type of actors I won’t be using again. So at the last minute I had three lovely people fill in, the lovely Elham, Eleanor Fusaro and Nadine Kreter, I am forever grateful to them for helping me!!!!!
So, Alyson and Sue arrived at 3pm. I only had the room booked for yesterday, so I had to get in for 8.30, when college opens. I had two hours before seminar started to lay the carpet, put up the fake wall and arrange the furniture. Then it was three hours of seminar presentations, followed by a quick cuppa, a brilliant tutorial with Georgia Starr, and then they arrived.
So, Alyson and Sue arrived at about 3, and I went to meet them in the Tate, gave them a quick briefing, and took them to the room, ready for Eleanor arrive at 3.30. I staggered the performances; so that we had a bit of time to prepare everyone before hand, time for the performance, then a bit of time after to recover.
The room is set out the same as it will be for the video based installation I will show for the degree show. It is important that the set up that I arranged yesterday will be the same as the installation for the space in which I will show the film. The work looks at the idea of re-presentation, and recreation. The rebuilding of the set will hopefully represent the recreation of a situation and how it will never be the same, how little things will change. It’s the same as our memory and the theme that I work with, the idea that we can never remember exactly what our childhood was like. How it will also be effected by who we are, and the way we remember things.
With all three performance filmed, the task is now to watch them back and work out the soundtrack that I will play with them, I am thinking of playing a different sound over the top of the sound of the performances, but I am still unsure of what this will be.