Phil Peel

Lighting a corridor is particularly difficult as there is nowhere obvious to put light stands or cables. If you are lucky there might be a picture rail or ledge that you can clamp a light to. But generally there isn’t anything.

You need to be able to have lights coming from behind the actors, so one work around is to disguise the light stand with a coat or curtain.

however you still have the problem of the cables.

so I generally use seversl lighting autopoles, clamped across the ceiling some to hang lights from, others to support the cables.

I never realised that you could spend so long in a cafe in the UK without being hassled.  I know that in “Friends” they all just sat around and talked, but I didn’t think you could do that in real life in England.

Now France is different. They have a very relaxed approach to  cafe culture.  But I didn’t think that would happen here in Southampton.

But I’ve just spent 4 hours in Starbucks, with the occasional coffee, pastry etc.  and the staff seemed totally OK that we were covering our table with scripts, files and viewing my films on my laptop.   they wouldn’t have made much profit out of us …but I will be going back.

So …a new experience.

Anyway the upshot was a decision to make a new short , probably shooting in the next couple of months … and to start  pitching  the feature “Phoebe” again.

4 hours in Starbucks, many coffees

Had a great script meeting in Starbucks.

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Two women One old, one young, both called Emily. A bittersweet story