After a long and fruitful nearly three day shoot we finally wrapped. A massive thank you to all involved, in particular the two young actors, Jamie and Ben de Barra, the three 'old' actors, Jonathan Caffrey, Natasha Quirke and Fergal Cleary. And, of course, the amazing hardworking crew.
As anyone who has ever worked with kids can tell you, it's a hard experience, for both them and you. They get tired. They get bored. They find it hard to hold concentration. But it's worth it - they look fantastic, performed well and will hopefully melt a few hearts out there.
Day one was hectic, we had a lot on the callsheet. We had no major issues, but fell behind due to the kids needing more time and space to themselves than anticipated. Lesson learned for day two.
Day two started great, lost a bit of pace in the middle and wound to a halt just before anticipated wrap time. We shot out Natasha's parts of the remaining scenes and let the boys have tea and play games. I have to say, by day 3, Jamie was like a pro on set. He really began to understand the filmmaking process.
Day three picked up the remaining scenes from day 2, and was slow as we were matching shots from scenes we shot the previous day. We wrapped, had an AMAZING sunday dinner courtesy of Mrs. Whearty, and went home happy and full!
We now have to shoot the montage sequence in Dublin next weekend - it's pretty straightforward stuff with a small crew. All the drama is shot and dialogue recorded.
Exhausted but happy, proud of everyone involved.
STREAMCAST
We also had some amazing help from Streamcast, a digital Broadcast solutions and Webcasting company who our Director of Photography, Gavin Reilly had worked with before.
They helped us out with camera equipment and we couldn't have done it without them.
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