the ELEMENTAL

Katie Crook, our Producer, sorted out all the access permissions for the demolition site.

In Dougie's flat, a combination of masses of kit, smoke machine and dozens of bodies create a memorable atmosphere.

Has someone been smoking in here??

Who pushed Louise off the balcony?

Donald from Progressive camera hire in Glasgow was our Data Wrangler, or Red DIT to give him his posh title (Digital Information Technologist). Because we shot at maximum 4K resolution on the revolutionary new Red system he had to change the flash cards as often as would have been the case with film magazines - we got about four minutes per card. These then had to be downloaded to a hard drive and checked.

Jan's lighting had to cope with extremes from blazing sun through the window to darkness outside. When you watch the film you can't see the joins. Nice one Jan!

It's always a good idea to keep the audience in mind.

Mits in a blur of action.

What a larff we had...

We even got matching tenements in the background...

The skylight at the top of the stair was covered over with a tarpaulin - then all the "daylight" was added by Jan and his team, the indefatigable Steve from Lighttrack, Robert and Dave.

We did mention the piles of gear? (Thanks Doug - you can come home now.)

And if everything became too boisterous there was always Rocca to bring a serious note back to our endeavours.

Rob Sproul-Cran (son of Robert the Writer/Director) is boom op on the first location day. He also wrote and performs the closing music. More at robsproulcran.com On the right is his brother Ollie, who was a meticulous Script Editor for the project.

Ah, those casually falling little pools of light...

Jan does his thing.

While Amylia does the antipodean version of housework - she adds dust and cobwebs.

Here, Lousie pulls her boots off Rocca. We had to explain to Rocca that Elementals don't wear trainers. A nice pear of leather boots, however...