A phone call from director her and an email from director him revealed one thing this morning; we were all very tired and had trouble getting to sleep last night, running through all the decisions over and over again in our heads until we eventually nodded off.Then this morning we woke up and were all happy about the decisions we had made.
The juggling of non-speaking roles remains to be perfected. We have to firmly establish whether we have the right number of guards, servants, guests and villagers in the crowd scenes. We made one minor boo-boo last night when we were shuffling things around, but director him worked out how to resolve it this morning with a stroke of genius.
I drew up a spreadsheet (previous producer - otherwise known as Keeble - would be proud of me) to map the flow of the parts, speaking and non-speaking, each person has under the allocation we have currently. Director her and director him will have a meeting on Sunday to sort out any adjustments. I shall be at my parents for the weekend so will have to be included by conference call.
I'm pleased by the way the three of us have been working together as a unit. We seem to be of like mind as to how we want the whole show to progress. Decisions never get made by a process of osmosis, but at the moment you could believe they are.
To wit, the way last night that we all managed instantaneously to reach the same decision was great; be it a definate instant verdict on who should get a part, or a desire to give people a second fuller opportunity to show what they could do, or a decision to see people again in twos or threes to see how they worked together.
So that's the first fence jumped, but there are many more ahead. Beechers' Brook and The Chair lie in waiting.
Thought for the day: 'Never underestimate The Power of Three' Charmed (obviously - well it had to come out sooner or later...)
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