The End is Near

After a break of five weeks, we are now shooting the final block of the movie. This pause in filming was always planned and was put in place to cater for people’s vacations and for Amber Chakra actor Karla Mikenna to complete a theatre job in the West End (which she produced and performed in…and was very good too). So what else has been happening? Well, the first teaser trailer is now online and MEV regular Matt Wolf (he must be sick of working with me by now!) is going to provide his vocals for the role of the Narrator.

Before the break, we had been shooting a lot including the big scenes of UFO Reception Day and footage of the Summer Solstice at the Avebury Stone Circle Monument in Wiltshire. More recently, we had a very good days production on Sunday 4th September at the wonderful location of Treadwell’s Bookshop in London’s Covent Garden. The shop was the stand in for Amber Chakra’s scenes and Christina and her staff at the shop were fantastic and very welcoming so this is a big shout-out to them…cheers guys!

As well as Karla playing Amber, we had Sarah Fletcher playing Poppy and Susy Saker playing Jasmine (as well assisting on the production side). Heather Tracy as Gwen Goodie also made an appearance for just one shot, so to tie in with a canvassing scene shot earlier in June. At this stage, I have begun creating an assembly edit to see if the whole thing threads together. Although the script and scene outlines detail the order of the film; this is improv of course, so we have created scenes, changed structure and introduced / deleted characters so a massive puzzle is lining up in front of me on the edit suite to piece together as a coherent narrative – but more on the edit to come!