October 27, 2006
Bits and Pieces
Today it seems, filming is focusing on lots of smaller peripheral moments to the larger scenes. Car drives up and someone gets out, someone walks down the street, someone crosses the road, that sort of thing. Usually scenes with no dialogue and generally only one actor involved. It makes for busy filming though.
Yesterday they spent hours on a scene outside the house over the road, which meant I got to watch Raji, (as we call him here now, of course), walking around in a white Bonds singlet that wasn't-doing-him-any-damage for the duration of the afternoon. Good for the soul, not so good for productivity.
It's also interesting to see just how much of our local streetscape will be a part of the film. The lanes we use for navigating our way around Brunswick have worked their way into the series in a big way, I suppose this adds to the 'authenticity'. While our house is not featured, being in-between-owners at the time that these things were arranged, it's proximity to the ones that are means that both the house and and our car are in the background of a lot of scenes. This makes walking out the front door pretty nerve-wracking at times. Will I ruin a take that has taken hours to set up and rehearse? Or will I end up as an inadvertent-extra in some particularly fetching tracky-daks and curlers? Dare I check the mailbox yet?
With all the external filming it means that it is sometimes important to remain silent when navigating the street. Try telling this to Jacob. The only certain method it seems is to stuff his mouth with cookies and run for it hoping he doesn't choke in the process, or if he does that at least he will do so quietly.
And a rather mundane but increasingly pressing consideration, will the garbage trucks ever be allowed back in?
Posted by Faith