Sat on the train, leaving the shire again and heading back to the promised land. Today has been ridiculously chilled out compared to last week.
As you know if you’ve been keeping up with this blog, on Friday Seb and I drove from Manchester to Bath to film with musician Liam Blake all this weekend for a new docu-style music video.
As a small taster of the video we’ve done with Liam, look out for an exclusive session video later this week.
We spent all of Saturday in and around Bath, filming some incredibly crisp and professional video and I’m excited to put it all together with Anthony on Final Cut this week. It’s been a fun production process:
Take a look at some of the blogs from earlier this weekend to get a really good idea at what we’ve been up to. We left each other mid-Saturday afternoon when Seb, Liam and myself were just leaving a specialist coffee shop after a productive morning.
From there we shot some nice film from a prime position on the canal bridge, then took a good 30minute hike up a hill (or small mountain maybe a more appropriate term) to a spot where we could capture Liam playing a song and doing an interview with the whole of Bath in the background. It’s a beautiful place but my god it’s got some hills. Steer clear if your handbrake is not keen on hill-parking. Despite Liam’s incredibly gracious and welcoming hospitality and motivation for the project, I hated him for the hike. But the shots reimbursed the hatred, so Liam, it’s all cool.
It was considerably easier wobbling back down that hill on the way home.. a sledge would have been very useful mind… Having said that, Seb nearly did slide down, and that little stumble is on camera ;)
By Saturday evening, the culmination of a mad week of pre-production coupled with the intensity of filming meant I couldn’t even speak whilst I drove home. I was shattered. I just put Chris Evans podcasts on and let his enthusiasm fill me with more. As soon as we arrived at my house, we had a cuppa Charlie then into town for a well-deserved pint or two with some more amazing people.
Great to catch up with all my best pals in AKA, a venue where we’re going to try and get Liam to play around Christmas time. Talking of Christmas, as soon as this edit has been finished this coming week, my next big project will be the Christmas tree decorations, the buying of a wreath and the intake of roasted chestnuts. In fact this evening the taxi driver who drove me back from Picadilly had one of those textured, valour steering wheel coverings.. I know my car is down south, but just for when I'm back I may invest in one with some festive embroidery.. may as well get some leather Alan Partridge driving gloves whilst I'm at it...
For now though, I’m well in the mood for a Turkish bath and massage, but such as life I’ve just spent a 3hr train journey with the new Florence & The Machine album, some podcasts and a wealth of satisfaction seeping through every crevice of my body knowing production has been ticked off the list. Roll on post.
