Filming Update

Here we are utilising our DIY film making equipment.. a standard desk lamp proved to be extremely helpful for us in creating different lighting and shadow effects :) (Quick note - apologies about the low quality of these pictures, they were taken on a mobile phone camera, therefore when I increased their size for the purpose of this blog post, they became incredibly pixelated.)

Here we are looking happy on the 567th trip through from Anna's kitchen to where the bookshelf is in the other room, it was a long day.. This was to capture the shots for 'I've only read in books' where we intend to create the look of book piles increasing and decreasing in height, in a stop motion kind of style.

^ That's dedication.. Me and Anna here giving the some leaves a nice pampering session. Due to the weather of this country all the leaves outside were soggy and wet so wouldn't float down gracefully and naturally when thrown on Alec's face.. they kind of clumped and just made him annoyed at us.. so we thought blow drying was the way forward :) and it worked, once dry the leaves floated down how we desired, and look much more effective

Capturing some general face shots, close ups and all that jazz. Also trying to get Alec to mime some lyrics at this point, but that proved a bit of a palaver due to him not knowing the song quite so well as us.. we have been forced into listening to it about 40 million times, which Alec hasn't.. so fair enough!