Man, was this shoot fun, every so often you do a shoot that makes you think, this is why I love being a film maker (the marina shoot on Brush Stroke was also one of these) and this was certainly one of them. We were shooting the cave man scene at Seaham beach on a very cold November morning/afternoon and just to see everyone working hard and grafting and being a part of it myself and seeing the scene being made how I had pictured it right in front of me, felt fantastic to be a part of.
We met Rachel (cave woman) at the location whilst Brad and Liam went to pick up Tony (cave man) from the station near by, then we carried a lot of heavy equipment down to the beach and to the cave where we were going to film. Then we dressed the actors and the set, both of which looked fantastic, although I must say it hurts your hands to finger paint onto a rock wall. Having done that, much like Preston Park it was simply a case of setting up shots and filming them, easy stuff really, one shot proved to be problematic however as we couldn't get the tripod close enough to the wall, the solution to this was to have Liam hold the camera in place while Brad filmed. As producer I made sure before we did this that it was safe, that Liam had sure footing and was at no risk of hurting himself or anyone else, or damaging the camera. Once this was assured we did the shot which again was no trouble and we moved on. At this point the actors were finished so I went with them to a nearby cafe to get them out of costume, to sign off paperwork and to sort out travel expenses. Once this was sorted I returned to the crew and helped with the establishing shot they were filming of the cave and filled in the shots they had done onto my production log.
Thus concluding another shoot more or less without any issues, looked great, was incredibly fun to be a part of and we had little to no problems with anything.
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