And so, it is with some happiness that we can announce that we've started filming the second Eton Crow filming project, and our first 'proper' short film - with a script and a plot and everything! - in the hope that we'll have it all done by the end of August.
However, this has, for us, illuminated a curious insight into one of the more curious aspects of filmmaking; sometimes, the least complicated section of a script will take the most time to film.
For instance; when we originally filmed the demo reel, we managed to film three ninjas assaulting a man who's saved by a mariachi in approximately three hours, even managing to include a Seventh Seal reference. We even managed to film a jidaigeki - or, more accurately, Chambara - trailer, sword-fights, love interests, flashbacks and all, within four hours.
Yesterday, filming a conversation lasting approximately three minutes took up approximately four hours. A conversation between two men, sat down, without anything else happening other than them talking.
It's mostly down to our director's mildly OCD nature when it comes to filming - the actual conversation was repeated four times, and there was a lot of time built in for corpsing and other such issues that come up on occasion. (It turns out that if you want to keep your actors serious, showing them this before shooting had begun was not necessarily the smartest of ideas. You live, you learn.)
So now, the actors have been given the rest of the week to recuperate while our editor - who is a law unto himself - tries to piece together a single conversation of approximately two to three minutes out of an hour and a half's footage.
Happy days!
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