In front of camera, it's a sweltering night in our nameless African city, some time after a thunderstorm has passed. The thunderstorm, however, seems to have taken up residence in the real world just above our location. It's day 3 more
Above is the clapperboard at the end of day 1. Somehow it's reassuring that, even when all the other camera stuff is high end digital, we still need one of these totally traditional objects. Last night the digital rushes were more
So... here we go. 05.05: leaving the house to catch the first tube heading north on the Northern Line. At least it's not raining. 07:35: First AD Kristian Dench gathers everyone for some brief house-keeping notes, including the fire alarm procedures - more
Yes, I know there are only 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare (not counting those in the plays). But for our new project we have also filmed a reading by a very distinguished actor of the Dedication that was included in more
Monday morning, five days ago. Just after ten o'clock on the top floor of the Royal Shakespeare Company's south London rehearsal rooms the cast and creatives of Julius Caesar meet for the first time. Our chairs are set in a more
I blogged a fortnight back about how Points, our proposal for Arts Council England/BBC initiative The Space, lost out in the final funding round. Today I had a kind of post-rejection counselling session with a solicitous man more
The late Lord St John of Fawsley, whose death was announced yesterday, is not perhaps the first person who you might expect to find celebrated here. As Norman St-John Stevas, he was a Tory minister for the arts and an more
Tomorrow Arts Council England and the BBC announce the projects to be funded for this summer's exciting digital arts project The Space (see my earlier post Make it new). I did some initial consultancy for The Space but more
Yes, I've been super-busy - and, yes, I feel guilty about not posting here for nearly a fortnight. So let me construct a post about a few of the things we're involved in and also about one or two new more
For a project about the First World War to be released later in the year (when I'll blog it), I have been filming in Belgium and France. The weather was bitterly cold and our car got caught in a scary blizzard, more