tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30219711734771478472024-03-13T08:24:00.119-07:00BIG BOOK MEDIAFilming the GospelsBig Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-42940313462527542652011-03-14T04:30:00.000-07:002011-03-14T05:02:54.081-07:00Animation FascinationHello everybody.<br /><br />We're delighted to say that we have a series of new and exciting mini-movies on their way. We have enlisted the creative expertise of Bristol-based animation company, SCUBABOY, to help us construct a wonderful new style of film.<br /><br />The new films will be perfectly suited for sermon use, and provide a distinctive off-shoot to the successful Big Book Media dramatised footage. The first will be available over the next few weeks, with another special Easter film to follow shortly after.<br /><br />We can also announce that the first in The Jesus Series, narrated by top U.K pastor Andy Frost, will also be available very soon. 'Hero' will be available on DVD and marks the first in the new 7-part series designed to take a fresh and insightful look into the life of Jesus.<br /><br />More news to follow on release day!<br /><br />For now, best wishes from the Big Book Media team.<br /><br />Robbie.Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-10863143133308359712010-12-07T05:13:00.000-08:002010-12-07T05:59:22.043-08:00It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...With our Director and crew back from their recent trip to Israel, we are now knuckling down to the editing and production of our latest project due for release Easter 2011. More details to follow soon!<br /><br />Other members of our dedicated team also made the journey earlier this week, back to Morocco. Filming is now underway for our exciting new DVD series featuring Andy Frost. Andy will be exploring the life of Jesus, and his life as an everyday man trying to spread the Word. We will be looking at who Jesus REALLY was, and will discover if hundreds of years of storytelling has helped or hindered our understanding of him. <br /><br />We look forward to giving you more news on this very soon, and will shortly have some pictures uploaded of our trip!<br /><br />We hope everybody in the U.K has been enjoying the recent winter wonderland, and hope you're all keeping warm. If you have any questions about the latest projects by Big Book Media, we always like to hear from you so please email us at info@bigbookmedia.com.<br /><br />Best Christmas wishes from the Big Book Media team!Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-22008527818041991072010-11-22T06:41:00.000-08:002010-11-22T06:52:52.707-08:00Christmas 2010 update!It's been a very busy couple of months for all of the Big Book Media team.<br /><br />Our Director, David Batty, and supporting crew have been filming out in Israel for a forthcoming Easter project to be released in 2011.<br /><br />Also, we're excited to say that we shall be flying back out to Morocco to undertake filming of a new project featuring Andy Frost. This new product will provide churches, worship groups and Bible project leaders with a wonderful, visual resource that will combine the expertise of Andy delving into the life and teachings of Jesus, with the stunning footage of Big Book Media. The result will be a fantastic learning resource for all ages. Our aim as always is to create a powerful, educational product that will engage followers at every level, and the stunning visual quality will mean a new and exciting product for worldwide use.<br /><br />The Brighton office has also been working hard to ensure that the new Advent & Christmas producs are ready and available! We have new YEAR A Lectionary films available for the Gospel readings of Matthew, and many special discount download bundles in the pipeline - keep an eye out for our Advent emails as we'll be giving you some huge discounts over the forthcoming season!<br /><br />More to follow soon...!<br /><br />Seasons greetings to all from the Big Book Media team.Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-46189888471646572562010-07-19T04:00:00.000-07:002010-07-20T08:08:14.096-07:00Discover Christmas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/TERjGqaHniI/AAAAAAAAAWI/UynStji1D6o/s1600/The+Nativity.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/TERjGqaHniI/AAAAAAAAAWI/UynStji1D6o/s200/The+Nativity.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495626411413052962" /></a><br />Big Book Media have had exciting news this week. Firstly, Liz our office manager and her husband Dave have had a beautiful baby girl, Jemima. Congratulations to Liz, Dave and Jon on their new arrival! <br /><br />We have also been looking towards Christmas, when we will be having a film released in Walmart stores in America called 'Discover Christmas'. It is a DVD for children explaining the traditions and stories of Christmas. Each story is split up into 5 short films which are aimed at children aged 6 to 12. <br />It is a fun, accessible DVD which discovers where Santa Claus is from, The story of the Christmas tree, what Bethlehem looks like today, why we give presents, and the fun of putting on a nativity play. <br />There is also a mini feature film which tells the whole Christmas story, from the moment Mary discovers she will be the mother to son of God. <br /><br />There are also games and activities to download for free from the internet, which have been specially crafted to fit around the DVD. Much like our Gospel films, Diane-Louise Jordan, (Blue Peter, Songs of Praise) is narrating the stories. The DVD has been made in collaboration with CTVC, the major British media company who produce material for television, radio and new media content including the BBC, channel 4 and ITV. <br /><br />So the last month has been spent producing the material for the DVD, and our director David Batty and producer Hannah Leader have been busy filming, followed by Ben Hilton and David editing the footage. Films should be in shops to enjoy in October this year.Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-83453948676910233722010-04-16T05:17:00.000-07:002010-04-20T02:25:21.699-07:00We are feeling Delirious!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S81uts3j2SI/AAAAAAAAAVo/cVSPtJszNxc/s1600/times+online+delirious.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S81uts3j2SI/AAAAAAAAAVo/cVSPtJszNxc/s200/times+online+delirious.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462143654487644450" /></a><br />Hi everyone<br /><br />We have had an exiting couple of weeks here at Big Book, last week we packed up the Brighton office and set off for Minehead in Somerset for Spring Harvest. We sold our DVDs, cards, posters and had our films showing for the week on a big screen on our stand. Also a very very happy customer won Zac the camel in our draw at the end of the week!<br /><br />As most of you probably know, Delirious, the rock bank re-released their song 'History Maker' for Easter. We are very exited to have had the opportunity to have our filmed footage used for the video created to go alongside the song's release on their You Tube video. The response to the video has been amazing. Here is the link to the You Tube video so you can see the song and with our footage for yourselves.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXirbVNJnI<br /><br />We have also had an article in the Time Online about the video which I have put the link for below.<br /><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7079242.ece<br /><br />Our next event is the Christian Resources Exhibition at Sandown Park where we will have a stand at this huge event. Come and see us at stand L11!<br /><br />This event starts on 11th May with set up the day before so I'll be spending the next couple of weeks preparing for that.<br /><br />MaddyBig Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-33555321044624618842010-03-29T00:50:00.000-07:002010-04-20T02:42:19.136-07:00CRE Buzz<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S811IaHQBVI/AAAAAAAAAVw/9Q6LgFVidhA/s1600/scanned+CRE+buzz.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S811IaHQBVI/AAAAAAAAAVw/9Q6LgFVidhA/s200/scanned+CRE+buzz.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462150710379414866" /></a><br />Hi all<br /><br />It has been pretty hectic in the office (and out of the office) this week. We've been preparing for our first event - Spring Harvest which we are looking forward to setting off for this Friday. We have also had a new floor laid in the office (hence the out of the office comment) and Robbie and I have been hauling boxes in and our of our unit with the help of a couple of removal men. <br /><br />While the floor was being laid Robbie, Liz and I have been working from home. Mostly from Liz's living room! Plus various of the rest of the team have carried on as usual in London.<br />We are glad to be back in the office today, mounting photos and getting ready to leave for Minehead on Friday.<br /><br />We are really pleased to have had an article written in the Christian Resource Exhibition' on-line newsletter.<br />http://www.creonline.co.uk/news.asp?pageid=13<br /><br />Very exited to be in CRE Buzz.<br /><br />I'll add a jpeg of the article too in case you can't get to the article through the link above. The office floor looks beautiful and I'll attach one of Liz's photos of it tomorrow! We have a nice picture of her son Jon in the middle of the floor before the furniture went back into the office. Liz, Alec and Robbie are setting off for Minehead on Friday. Plus Jill with a large van full of the screen and lots of boxes for our stand. Then I am going to join them there on Monday. We've booked a cottage in Alcombe right on the edge of Minehead which looks beautiful to stay in for our week.Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-89842271901697685372010-03-05T02:33:00.000-08:002010-04-19T13:58:43.315-07:00Spring Fever<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Hi all</span></span><br /><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Maddy here again with another blog update. It's been all go since our last shoot but editing has finally been finished and the next set of films are up on our website. The Production Team are starting their plans for Shoot Four which will probably take place in May (to be confirmed). The Easter films are looking really spectacular, so the hard work and decication from the team has paid off - we hope you'll agree when you watch them.</span></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Robbie (Sales & Marketing Assistant) and Alec (Sales & Marketing Manager) have been working really hard getting the new Easter films up onto our website with the readings and Sunday School materials. They are all now ready to download alongside the films.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Until the next shoot the main thing that our office team is working on are our plans for having a stand at four events this Spring. The first event we will be at is Spring Harvest which takes place in Butlins, Minehead. It starts over Easter weekend and Alec, Liz, Jill, Robbie and I are all going to spend one week at this event. Liz and I are preparing for this at the moment, finalising our display for our stand and making sure we have everything we'll need for the event. We'll be showing our films on a large screen on our stand so if you are planning to attend this event we hope you'll come along and see us.<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">The second event we are attending is the Christian Resources Exhibition which is held at Sandown Racecourse in Surrey. This event takes place over the 11th to 14th May. I'll blog about this once we have returned from our stand at Spring Harvest. After CRE we are at the Pentecostal Festival which is in central London and then finally we'll be at The Big Church Day Out in Wiston, West Sussex. We will be there over the bank holiday weekend at the end of May. More information to come on all of these events post Spring Harvest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;">So far for Spring Harvest we have been printing out shoot photos from our most recent shoot to go up on our stand so people can see the behind the scenes work around a shoot. We also got example Sunday School materials and photos of the crafts that are outlined in the Sunday School lesson plans so you can see the support tools that have been created so far to go alongside the Three Wise Camels versions of the films. We have also mounted our most recent press releases so you can see what is being said about us and the films! We will of course have some DVDs for purchase on the stand, plus details of all of the films that you can download from our website. Plus some cards, notelets and posters which have been created from photos taken on our shoots. I have also been making Three Wise Camels badges of Zac, Becky and Noah that we can give away on our first day at the Spring H<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S7Ck2ZrjtSI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/oQbkG4_VJ1U/s1600/Liz+022.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454040403259143458" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S7Ck2ZrjtSI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/oQbkG4_VJ1U/s200/Liz+022.JPG" /></a>arvest event!</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;">We have Zac the camel (pictured) coming to the event with us who will be won by someone lucky who attends the event and leaves their e-mail details in the drop box on our stand - we'll have a box with Zac's picture on our stand for the week plus slips for anyone who would like to leave their details to fill in and drop into the box then at the end of the week we'll draw out a lucky winner who can take Zac home with them - we think you'll agree he's a very desirable camel!</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;">I'll write again before we set off for Spring Harvest with our stand details and then will write from the event an update about the event and what we get up to there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;">Maddy</span></p><p><br /> </p>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-22211403999144901362010-02-01T08:03:00.000-08:002010-03-02T07:37:58.741-08:00Earth Stood Hard as Iron, Water Like a Stone<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Hi everyone, Maddy here blogging again from the Big Book Media office.</span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S2b8re3tQ2I/AAAAAAAAATo/u-gzOEd7vY0/s1600-h/P1010991.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 167px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433307824420373346" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S2b8re3tQ2I/AAAAAAAAATo/u-gzOEd7vY0/s200/P1010991.JPG" /></span></a></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Our Production Team are back once more from Morocco, safe and sound without any food poisoning outbreaks this time! This weather on this shoot was really cold, such a contrast from Shoot One. At night the temperature dropped really low and we had a few night time shoots this time round so the team had to wrap up for these - the picture is David our Director and Ben our DOP in their hats, scarfs and gloves! Although for them it has been a cold shoot compared to others we of course have had the coldest weather for some 30 years in the UK with snow and ice over much of the country so they are getting off lightly compared to that!</span> <span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"></span></p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S40u8D-MqRI/AAAAAAAAAUA/2FDGtlQJAsg/s1600-h/_BP36857.NEF.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 156px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 103px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444059133954009362" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S40u8D-MqRI/AAAAAAAAAUA/2FDGtlQJAsg/s200/_BP36857.NEF.jpg" /></a><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-GB">Shoot Four went really well, with no major disasters - just Trevor falling through part of the set on one occasion! So now the team are back it’s been a mad </span><span lang="en-GB">rush to edit and get our films ready in time for Easter. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-GB">Tim and Ben our Editors have been working all hours with David our Director and Amory our Post Production Manager in our office here and with the Halo team in London. There's been some very long days and nights involved for the post team.</span></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-GB">Updates on the others in the team here Liz (Office Manager) and I have been preparing communications to Church and Cathedral shops and also Christian Retailers to sell in our cards and other products</span></span></span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">. Robbie (Sales and Marketing Assistant) has uploaded all the shoot stills photos; so that we can put some on the website alongside the films.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S2cCX6MdU7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/g9Xel5JE-Qs/s1600-h/P1000835.JPG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433314085227549618" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S2cCX6MdU7I/AAAAAAAAAT4/g9Xel5JE-Qs/s200/P1000835.JPG" /></span></a></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Hannah our Producer and Alec our Sales and Marketing Manger are currently in America visiting our marketing partners ‘Big Finish Media’, Hannah has been to a church service at Willow Creek which has a three services a weekend that average nearly 23,000.00 attendees. <a href="http://www.willowcreek.org/">www.willowcreek.org</a></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">The photo on the left shows the south downs near our office covered in a beautiful white layer of snow.</span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Lastly for today's news 'ninteenseventythree', the local card designers we use for our Christmas cards are currently choosing picking out stills photos from our shoots to use to design some more cards for us. We are hoping to have these to bring with us to the trade fairs we'll be attending this spring.</span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">I will blog again with more details on our spring plans, the retail fairs we'll be at in April/May and the next shoot soon.</span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="western" ><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Maddy</p></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-87441373939144693042010-01-15T02:15:00.000-08:002010-01-19T13:26:50.906-08:00The Cross<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi Trevor</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1BcLqN5VKI/AAAAAAAAATQ/RGvLqPYiBfE/s1600-h/carrying+cross.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 157px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1BcLqN5VKI/AAAAAAAAATQ/RGvLqPYiBfE/s200/carrying+cross.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426938906362336418" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> here with my next lot of news from the shoot. </span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >We have been extremely busy here in the last few days, which has been an emotional roller coaster, from Jesus' glor</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ious entry into Jerusalem to the the dark crucifixion.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We started </span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >on </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >the Monday of week two in Morocco, by shooting scenes not in chronological order. So first we filmed Jesus b</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ein</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >g given his cross and forced to carry it to his crucifixion. There was some really great acting, particularly b</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >y th</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ose in the scene where Jesus meets the woman on th</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >e way to the cross. The scene was shot in t</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1BcaogPnII/AAAAAAAAATY/xRQOFpjnKs4/s1600-h/face+on+cross.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 168px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1BcaogPnII/AAAAAAAAATY/xRQOFpjnKs4/s200/face+on+cross.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426939163600460930" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >he pic</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >turesque village of Ait Ben Hadoun, build almost entirely of </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >mud and stra</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >w </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >b</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ricks, dating back centuries and a UNESCO world heritage site. The streets made an excellent Jerusalem!</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >On Tuesday we had some more peaceful scenes to shoot. The day began on a road lined with palm trees; we were filmin</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >g Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem, surrounded with people waving palm branches as Jesus rode a donkey into </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >the town. We had a slight problem in that the donkey wasn't at all keen to walk on the cloaks laid down by the crowd for Jesus to pass over (as specified in the Gospel). It seems that donkeys won't walk on unfamiliar surfaces, so it just walked round the cloaks to avoid stepping on them! Being notoriously stubborn animals we really struggled to get the donkey stepping over the cloaks. After that we filmed Jesus walking with his Disciples, walking was their main form of transport, the footage will come in handy for between scenes.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >The days here ju</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1Bb6NMfnJI/AAAAAAAAATI/d5dnC9rh4To/s1600-h/P1121234.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 122px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1Bb6NMfnJI/AAAAAAAAATI/d5dnC9rh4To/s200/P1121234.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426938606514052242" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >st seem to fly by and before long it was Wednesday, a big day for all of us because we were filming the crucifixion. I guess none of us were looking forward to filming this particular sc</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ene and several of us got little sleep the night before. Anyway the day came, the extras arrived in cos</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >tu</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >me, three crosses had been made up on the hill over our Jerusalem and a crane was built to allo</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1BcryRMFZI/AAAAAAAAATg/zqnjSdXEFyA/s1600-h/crosses+on+hill.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 123px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S1BcryRMFZI/AAAAAAAAATg/zqnjSdXEFyA/s200/crosses+on+hill.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426939458279445906" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >w eye leve</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >l </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >shots of Jesus on the cross.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >When it came to it the day wasn't as feared, although the focus was</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > purely on Jesus' suffering w</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >e were all so busy working 110% to get the </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >shots done before the sun went down we didn't have time to lament. We absolutely </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >needed the second film unit to get all the shots and it took all our 'English' politene</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ss not to ruin shots on our lists. We finished with just a few minutes to spare, it was a very intense day but not one I will forget!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We have just a couple more shoot days left now before Shoot Three is over and we head back to the UK for the editing and post work on what we have shot. We have had two editors out on this shoot - Tim and Ben who have been working on the film as we make it, we have a lot of editing work to get this film ready in time for Easter which is an early March Easter this year and will hopefully be back out in February to carry on filming and then will need everything ready for the beginning of March on our Website.<br /><br />It's going to be a very busy couple of months coming up for the Big Book Media office and Post Production team.<br /><br />Well that's all from me again for now, Trevor.<br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-3545728624567881702010-01-12T07:08:00.000-08:002010-01-12T14:55:02.819-08:00Arrested Development<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, Trevor here with another blog from Morocco.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0yhCd006pI/AAAAAAAAASw/nF03ICTIMeE/s1600-h/Shoot+3+photos.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 159px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0yhCd006pI/AAAAAAAAASw/nF03ICTIMeE/s200/Shoot+3+photos.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425888714812615314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We've had an interesting few nights here trying to film against the cold, wind and dark but have managed to get some really great scenes done.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On Thursday afternoon we filmed some lovely donkeys, including a baby donkey, for a scene where the disciples collect them for Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, we remember this every Palm Sunday. The donkeys didn't seem to mind being filmed</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and loved being fed in between each shot.</span></span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >The shot on the left is a couple of our 'actor' donkeys!<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0yg4nR69ZI/AAAAAAAAASo/S3_mC4yokc4/s1600-h/P1070773.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0yg4nR69ZI/AAAAAAAAASo/S3_mC4yokc4/s200/P1070773.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425888545551873426" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >The following night was an evening shoot with Jesus under arrest by the temple guards, who take him to the High Priests house. It's amazing how much work and attention to detail goes into every shot, braziers were lit, the set dressed and the lighting arranged which all takes hours before the filming even begins. It was then </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >time to film Peter's denial of Jesus, I have included a </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >photo of the actor, who was superb.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">On Friday we </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0z8ZqqCpWI/AAAAAAAAATA/cN0o5OMgkCw/s1600-h/Jesus+and+Guards.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 112px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0z8ZqqCpWI/AAAAAAAAATA/cN0o5OMgkCw/s200/Jesus+and+Guards.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425989168952157538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">wen</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t to a location where we filmed scenes of Jesus and the Disciples at the Garden of Gethsemane. This </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">is where Jesus goes to pray just before his arrest. The Disciples fall asleep whilst Jesus is praying. Selva's portrayal of Jesus' agony as he prayed was electrifying and all the more imp</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ressive because the weather was so representative of the mood of the scene.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Selva being arrested in his role of Jesus in the photo on the left.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />We were </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">approachi</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0ygu_G0-xI/AAAAAAAAASg/bJM9ACR9YlY/s1600-h/P1080900.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 117px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0ygu_G0-xI/AAAAAAAAASg/bJM9ACR9YlY/s200/P1080900.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425888380149103378" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ng Saturday with some trepidation, putting more and more layers of warm clothing on, the night shoots have been really cold - once the sun goes down in the winter here the temperature drops a surprising amount. Luckily Saturday night wasn't so cold as previous nights. We filmed the arrival of </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the temple guards, coming to arrest Jesus. The scene where a kiss is used by Judas to betray Jesus was quite moving and touching, both know it's a moment of treachery.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0yhiUtaesI/AAAAAAAAAS4/gWP5oEhLSKc/s1600-h/P1080876.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 166px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0yhiUtaesI/AAAAAAAAAS4/gWP5oEhLSKc/s200/P1080876.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425889262121417410" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />So we have now been out filming three nights in a row, in some quite extreme weather conditions(well compared to the weather of previous shoots, pos not quite as extreme as the snow that has fallen over the UK for days now).<br />I have been seriously impressed by the determination, commitment and professionalism of the crew and cast who get truly great shots even when the conditions are very difficult.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lastly I thought you might enjoy a picture of me, in suitable local attire for a cold night!<br />I'll be back with news of the rest of the shoot in a couple of day.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Trevor</span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-60184408487022955492010-01-06T12:04:00.001-08:002010-01-12T14:41:42.632-08:00When Doves Cry<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T12Ph3jCI/AAAAAAAAASY/p8ooq2fRQic/s1600-h/P1050461.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 135px; float: left; height: 174px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423730163491245090" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T12Ph3jCI/AAAAAAAAASY/p8ooq2fRQic/s200/P1050461.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Hi all, Trevor back with some news from days two and three on BBM Shoot Three.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Day Two started very early for me with a 6.00 am start, but at least I have remembered today that I need my warm clothing. I have been limping a bit from my accident yesterday but thankfully it is nothing serious.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >We started filming at 7am today with Khalid a famous actor in Morocco who is playing King Herod in our films. He is a huge star in Morocco and can't walk down the street for people asking him for autographs and to have their photo taken with him, he bears it all with good humour.The photo on the above left is Khalid in costume.</span></div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span> </div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0PU_gcYI/AAAAAAAAARw/teNg5IZhsPw/s1600-h/P1050484.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 174px; float: right; height: 119px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423728395431211394" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0PU_gcYI/AAAAAAAAARw/teNg5IZhsPw/s200/P1050484.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Today we are filming Jesus before King Herod being mocked by the soldiers, crowned with thorns and beaten. David the Director is trying to tread the </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0Wn70joI/AAAAAAAAAR4/yvdJRnzjr-8/s1600-h/P1050511.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 108px; float: left; height: 131px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423728520775110274" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0Wn70joI/AAAAAAAAAR4/yvdJRnzjr-8/s200/P1050511.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >line between pretending the violence didn't happen or focusing on it in a sensational way. I think he has got the tone just right, but it was never the less really disturbing to witness the sheer brutality of what happened to Jesus. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0bRjQO3I/AAAAAAAAASA/MzXsyocjuCU/s1600-h/P1060530.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 176px; float: right; height: 109px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423728600665832306" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0bRjQO3I/AAAAAAAAASA/MzXsyocjuCU/s200/P1060530.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >Day Two was a truly great day for me - I can really see how filming brings these readings to life. We started with Judus betraying Jesus, I got some good photos of money falling into a purse which was the thirty pieces of silver that Judas got for betraying Jesus.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >The photo above is Selva playing Jesus and on the right are three of our crew on the track and dolly on set.</span> </div><div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0kWaj_RI/AAAAAAAAASI/Jzklll-N2eI/s1600-h/P1060546.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 122px; float: left; height: 142px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423728756590378258" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0kWaj_RI/AAAAAAAAASI/Jzklll-N2eI/s200/P1060546.JPG" border="0" /></a></span></div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >Then the highlight of the day was a huge scene with lots of extras, Jesus enters the temple and drives out the money changers. </span></div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >Imagine the scene - tables with piles of coins, baskets of doves, clouds of incense and lots of people. Jesus arrives and is angered by the business taking place in the temple, reserved for prayer. He overturns the tables full of money, doves are set free and pandemonium breaks out, the priests are furious and the crowds are entranced by Jesus' presence and teaching. </span></div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >I hope the scene is as powerful on screen as it was to watch live.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span></div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >We also filmed Jesus teaching in the temple, a parable or two and Jesus in the famous scene saying 'render unto Caesar' or similar modern words.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >We have a night shoot tomorrow so most of us are getting an early night to conserve energy.</span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0o6uec7I/AAAAAAAAASQ/_gSo__5hCfI/s1600-h/P1060607.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 171px; float: right; height: 114px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423728835057054642" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0T0o6uec7I/AAAAAAAAASQ/_gSo__5hCfI/s200/P1060607.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" >Trevor</span></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><p><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span></p><br /><div><br /><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span><br /><br /></div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;" ></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-12145159117988972072010-01-05T13:20:00.000-08:002010-01-06T12:50:59.856-08:00The New Year and Shoot Three Both Begin!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OtbaW5oOI/AAAAAAAAAQg/CYFMDYs_Yik/s1600-h/P1040412-757521.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 132px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 176px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423369062727655650" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OtbaW5oOI/AAAAAAAAAQg/CYFMDYs_Yik/s200/P1040412-757521.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, Trevor here out on Big Book Media's third shoot in Morocco. I am out again on set as theological consultant on the shoot. We began our filming yesterday - most of us arrived out on 3rd of Jan with David the Director, Ben the Director of Photography and Deane DTI all flying out on 1st Januar</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">y to prepare for the start of shooting yesterday.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OvZ0mV_AI/AAAAAAAAAQo/Y-zmFzluLjs/s1600-h/P1040431-758900.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 125px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 167px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423371234435267586" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OvZ0mV_AI/AAAAAAAAAQo/Y-zmFzluLjs/s200/P1040431-758900.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />On this shoot we are filming the Passion - the last week of Jesus' earthly life,</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> f</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rom the events of Palm Sunday, through Holy Week, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. There's a lot to film and we only have 12 filming days so it's going to be a really busy couple of weeks for everyone on the shoot.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Selva Raslingham our British actor who plays the part of Jesus in our films is going to have a really demanding role this time on this shoot as he will be playing Jesus going through some of the worst experiences a human being can suffer.<br />I expected it to be cool in Morocco at this time of year, but I am surprised to find that it's really quite cold (especially if you compare the weather to what it was</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> like on our first shoot where we had temperatures of 45 degrees). On this shoot we are all wearing jumpers, overcoats and hats until the sun comes up and warms the day up a bit. Mind you given that it is snowing heavily over most of the UK it is much warmer than that here!<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OwAxn35MI/AAAAAAAAAQw/QZzkTKLLnR0/s1600-h/P1040433-760331.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 131px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 175px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423371903651275970" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OwAxn35MI/AAAAAAAAAQw/QZzkTKLLnR0/s200/P1040433-760331.JPG" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Today we fi</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">lmed Jesus dragged before Pilate by the chief priests. We started filming early and were on the set by 7.30am. We</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">filmed this scene at the Atlas Studios. Morocco has been a film making destination since the Italians first came her</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e in the 1920s. In Italian cinema the voices and sound effect</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s were added after the shooting so the low costs, great weather and beautiful light made Morocco an idea place to make films. Since then all sorts of sets have been built h</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ere and several studios opened. Combine that with the fact that large areas of Morocco have no electricity pylons, satellite dishes and other accoutrements of the modern western world and you have a great place to shoot period dramas. Many Biblical films have been made here as well as films such as 'Gladiator' and 'The Mummy Returns'.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Today's scenes include lots of extras, people for crowds, soldiers, temple guards and priests. They all take quite some controlling and that is the job of the first Assistant Director (1st AD) who shouts the orders for the set to fall silent and for people to take their place.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OwIy0L7hI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/PKHPv9R25C8/s1600-h/P1040441-761464.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 169px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 128px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423372041410309650" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0OwIy0L7hI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/PKHPv9R25C8/s200/P1040441-761464.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now I have a confession to make, I nearly halted shooting today by falling through the set! I was about </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">30ft above the ground on top of what seemed to be a solid wall, trying to get a good photo with my new camera when </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the floor gave way and I fell up to my waist in what is the cavity between two walls. I managed to get out and then looked inside the gap and there was a 30ft drop so I had a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> very lucky escape, I'll have to be more careful in future.<br /><br />Well that's it from me for today, hope you've enjoyed hearing about our first day on set and I will write again with more shoot news soon. Trevor<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0S3qk6x9SI/AAAAAAAAARg/HwtIS8fvxrk/s1600-h/P1040455-762744.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 113px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 151px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423661793353528610" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/S0S3qk6x9SI/AAAAAAAAARg/HwtIS8fvxrk/s200/P1040455-762744.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></span><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><br /><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-62505207154856403912009-12-18T13:14:00.001-08:002009-12-23T02:35:49.077-08:00We Wish You a Merry Christmas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-bbgCxkoI/AAAAAAAAAQY/VBcPNQ0UMZo/s1600-h/We+Wish+You+a+Merry+Christmas+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-bbgCxkoI/AAAAAAAAAQY/VBcPNQ0UMZo/s200/We+Wish+You+a+Merry+Christmas+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417719773510341250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, Maddy here with a pre Christmas blog from the Big Book Media office. Our website has be</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">en up for just over a month now and the films are selling well, here in the UK as well as in the US. We are kind of winding down for Christmas except we have Big Book Media Shoot Three happening in Morocco from 2nd Jan so there will be lots of work to do before then to make sure all the crew and equipment get out there ready to film, the crew are mostly leaving on New Years Day!<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We had our Big Book Media Christmas meal on Thursday night with the team from the Brighton of</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">fice, we all went down to a t</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">apas restaurant in the lanes in Brighton, it's called Casa Don Ca</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-apTT34OI/AAAAAAAAAQI/hhZKgeAEeqU/s1600-h/We+Wish+You+a+Merry+Christmas+001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-apTT34OI/AAAAAAAAAQI/hhZKgeAEeqU/s200/We+Wish+You+a+Merry+Christmas+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417718911098937570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rlos and we had a really lovely meal, food was great, the atmosphere was too </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and we all enjoyed ourselves. As </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">we w</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ere leaving it started to snow so we hurried to our homes to beat the d</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ownfall. David our Director said he really had to battle as he lives out past Heathfield and it was really </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">falling hard as he got nearer home. Photo on the left our of our office windows of the snowy buildings on the street below the office!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Today the team was a bit depleted in the office as those of us living outside of Brighton couldn't travel in </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">to work as there was</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> a lo</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t of snow in the night. I worked from home today - on this blog amongst other things!<br />Charlie, Li</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">z, Tim and Robbie made it in and tied up work for the week. David was due to go </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">up to London but had to abandon his car shortly after setting off as the snow was just too deep in deepest East Sussex! Alec, Amory and Hannah wondered what all the fuss was </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">as they didn't have much snow in central London!!<br /><br />We'll be in early next week to try and get as much done before the days off over Christmas and hopefully get Shoot Three all sorted and ready for the 2nd. Charlie has b</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">een working really hard to get everything finalised, she's been working with Huw who is going to go out </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-bGwUZvUI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/AQvkmxNjEPA/s1600-h/We+Wish+You+a+Merry+Christmas+003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-bGwUZvUI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/AQvkmxNjEPA/s200/We+Wish+You+a+Merry+Christmas+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417719417101991234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">on the shoot and look after production </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and also Sarah who is our new Production Accountant in the office.<br /><br />Well that's it from me for now, next post will prob be from the shoot early Jan so until then hope you have a wonderful Christmas and 'speak' to you in the new year.<br /><br />Maddy, photo of me on the left with Liz's son Jonny!<br /><br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-31556994844379592882009-11-23T10:13:00.000-08:002009-12-23T02:34:08.443-08:00And We're Off to the Races<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-XSnfxVnI/AAAAAAAAAPw/PtP1RWekmqI/s1600-h/And+We%27re+Off+to+the+Races+001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 148px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-XSnfxVnI/AAAAAAAAAPw/PtP1RWekmqI/s200/And+We%27re+Off+to+the+Races+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417715222845675122" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Hi </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">all, Robbie here with a blog from the Big Book Media office, I am blogging today as our website is fully up and running and from today you can buy our films online. I am also including with my blog some of our press coverage that we have had recently, links to the longer articles and clips of the shorter ones. </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The articles</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> written by Bess Twiston Davies from the Times Supplement and Toby Cohen from The Church Times have both been published and we have also had articles in a few other publications and mentions in the Guardian.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-Xq5aAu_I/AAAAAAAAAP4/opb7zG-nMIM/s1600-h/And+We%27re+Off+to+the+Races+003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 168px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-Xq5aAu_I/AAAAAAAAAP4/opb7zG-nMIM/s200/And+We%27re+Off+to+the+Races+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417715639970216946" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />The website is now up and running and you can buy downloads or DVDs of our films www.bigbookmedia.com and see sample clips and our Christmas cards etc..<br />We have been busy in the office sending out stock, marketing the films, working with Big Finish Media who are marketing our products in the US, sending out Big Book Media information packs to people interested in the company and the films, press, churches, etc.. and planning our next shoot which will happen early Jan.<br /><br />The film crew are going to be going out to Morocco again at the beginning of Jan to film Shoot Three </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">for us and we will have the films from Shoot Two up on the website in the new year.<br /><br />I will be working hard with Alec for the rest of Dec and then in the New year on our Marketing and support for the films, websi</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">te </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-YP-GZDjI/AAAAAAAAAQA/en9qP5Fc5Hw/s1600-h/And+We%27re+Off+to+the+Races+005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 171px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-YP-GZDjI/AAAAAAAAAQA/en9qP5Fc5Hw/s200/And+We%27re+Off+to+the+Races+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417716276885261874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and ideas for 2010.<br /><br />The photos in my blog are me at the top at my desk in the Brighton office! Then photos of our DVDs - The Nativity main version on the left and children's version above.<br /><br />I will blog more in the new year.<br /><br />Robbie<br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-18270313620692699732009-11-18T06:35:00.000-08:002009-11-19T08:46:07.617-08:00The Launch Party<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVkeoVYE1I/AAAAAAAAAO4/qI2DRAvPaOw/s1600/_AAA2604.NEF.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 98px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVkeoVYE1I/AAAAAAAAAO4/qI2DRAvPaOw/s200/_AAA2604.NEF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405837405114078034" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVizWe-ytI/AAAAAAAAAOw/2lMQNvY12KA/s1600/_AAA2622.NEF.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 112px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVizWe-ytI/AAAAAAAAAOw/2lMQNvY12KA/s200/_AAA2622.NEF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405835562076523218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, Maddy here blogging about the Big Book Media Launch Party. We had our launch party on Tues</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">day night in London at St Matthew's Church, Westminster.<br />The photo on the left shows Diane Louise Jordan with Hannah at the party and on the right David doing his speech with Hannah and Tim at the side.<br /><br />The whole Big Book Media team traveled up for the day to arrive at the church at midday to help with setting up and all the prepar</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ations for the evening function. I traveled up with Hannah's sister Jill from Sussex, </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Charlie, Robbie & Tim drove up with cars loaded with drinks, screens,</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> glasses etc! We also had David, Hannah, Alec, Amory, Katy (photographer from shoot one), Kathy (photographer from shoot two), James (Pro Asst from shoot two), Peggy (Hannah's Mum!) all there to help out with the many jobs setting up and making sure the night went smoothly.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVmz2XQ-hI/AAAAAAAAAPA/bylH7WkAutQ/s1600/_AAA2668.NEF.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 107px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVmz2XQ-hI/AAAAAAAAAPA/bylH7WkAutQ/s200/_AAA2668.NEF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405839968680606226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We made up </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">c</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">an</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">pes fro</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">m </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">some lovely Moroccan food bought in Goldborne Road London and from a couple of other places - we had </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">little kofta skewers and chicken kebab skewers, stuffed vine leaves, spicy Moroccan pastries and also olives, stuffed apricots, salted almonds etc.. The food must have been good as a few people asked who the catering company was! We had champagne for guests and a pomegranate and sparking water drink</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> as</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> the non alcoholic option!<br />The photo on the left is Charlie working hard at the launch but smiling as ever!<br />The photo on the right is Hannah, Trevor and guest at the party.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVnPBqNaWI/AAAAAAAAAPI/nUY_bIfhhl8/s1600/_AAA2720.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 98px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVnPBqNaWI/AAAAAAAAAPI/nUY_bIfhhl8/s200/_AAA2720.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405840435569322338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We took display screens to the church and put up stills photos from our two film shoots, examples of Guy's 3 Wise Came</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ls Sunday School materials, information about Big Book Media and Hannah and David. So that people could see and read about the background behind the company.<br />We also had TVs showing our filmed f</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">o</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">otage on a loop and a large projector and screen to show the main filmed clips on. Amory had put the music he created for the film onto disc so that was playing when the films weren't showing.<br />Robbie was doorman with his guest list which he knows by heart! It's going to be his specialist subject on Mastermind!!<br />Then when the evening started we had drinks and canapes at 6pm while people arrived and mingled. Then at 7pm w</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e had three short speeches from Hannah (Producer), David (Director) and Trevor (Consultant) giving information on Big Book Media, the filming of the productions in Morocco and the use of the films in churches, Sunday schools etc..Then the films were shown we showed the Annunciation, The Blind Man, The Magi, plus our promo film which is on our website www.bigbookmedia.com.<br />Then more of our films were showing on the smaller TV screens on a loop - eg The Nativity.<br />The last photo below shows Selva our actor who plays Jesus in the films with another guest, Selva has our Big Book Media folder with company information and DVD of the promo on his lap!<br />After a successful night it was back to Sussex to get some sleep. Maddy<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVn6iul87I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/LpAYZcrAlXs/s1600/_AAA2671.NEF.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 116px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwVn6iul87I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/LpAYZcrAlXs/s200/_AAA2671.NEF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405841183180452786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-70430699989647384562009-11-12T05:00:00.001-08:002009-11-17T13:07:58.480-08:00It's a Wrap for Shoot Two<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLPqoeKNuI/AAAAAAAAAOg/AcQDvZDya7E/s1600/wrap1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 110px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLPqoeKNuI/AAAAAAAAAOg/AcQDvZDya7E/s200/wrap1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405110834123388642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLM6iZztuI/AAAAAAAAAOA/eUfq9IbCmJg/s1600/charliewrap.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 100px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLM6iZztuI/AAAAAAAAAOA/eUfq9IbCmJg/s200/charliewrap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405107808837547746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Hi all, Charlie here with my last blog from Big Book Media Shoot Two - it was our last day the shoot today! </span><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"> James finally managed to pull himself from his bed today, he was adamant that he </span><span style="font-size:85%;"> wasn't going to miss the last day of filming!<br /><br />In addition</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> to it being the last day of our shoot Hilary Clinton was due to visit Ouarzazate today to meet with the King. There were flags absolutely everywh</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ere and lots of </span> <span style="font-size:85%;">s</span><span style="font-size:85%;">e</span><span style="font-size:85%;">curity - Ouarzazate was under lock-down, they even turned off all internet connections in the whole of the region for security </span><span style="font-size:85%;">reasons!</span></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I feel much better today which is a big relief as there is plenty to do today and lots of filming to get through so we can wrap and finish with everything completed.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLOAVK7v8I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/Z3nS-T-L_n8/s1600/in+the+water,+filming+boat.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 132px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLOAVK7v8I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/Z3nS-T-L_n8/s200/in+the+water,+filming+boat.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405109007876341698" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">We started off filmi</span><span style="font-size:85%;">n</span><span style="font-size:85%;">g back at the barrage, we were working with fish today - not the best of animals to direct but we did well and got the shots! Unfortunately due to the very thick weed in the water one of our boats got tangled up and the dingy boat we had could not get the main boat out of trouble, it just wasn't big eno</span><span style="font-size:85%;">ug</span><span style="font-size:85%;">h. Both myself and </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Hamid spent<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLObhjxRkI/AAAAAAAAAOY/4SG0HEGnm54/s1600/lots+of+fish.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLObhjxRkI/AAAAAAAAAOY/4SG0HEGnm54/s200/lots+of+fish.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405109475058206274" border="0" /></a> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">some time sourcing another boat - which is pretty hard in the middle of the desert! Luckily we found a bigger and more powerful bo</span><span style="font-size:85%;">at from the golf club a few miles up the barrage but alas</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> whilst it was traveling to our location it too got stuck in weeds! In the end our boat managed to come unstuck and filming was resumed! </span></div><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">After we wrapped at this location we then went to a small oasis where we did a few pick-up shots in t</span><span style="font-size:85%;">h</span><span style="font-size:85%;">e </span><span style="font-size:85%;"> o</span><span style="font-size:85%;">live grove with Jesus and his disciples. It only took an hour to get the shots and then we finally wrapped Shoot Two which I found very euphoric and satisfying as all had gone very well - I even shed a tear of happiness!</span></div><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLQegYVgCI/AAAAAAAAAOo/t_qCPa-V3ho/s1600/allcrew.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLQegYVgCI/AAAAAAAAAOo/t_qCPa-V3ho/s200/allcrew.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405111725304676386" border="0" /></a></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />After we had finished up we all met up in the evening and Hannah took us all out for dinner at a lovely French restaurant and we ate delicious food and had toasted the success of Shoot </span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Two - my toast was with water (still in recovery!).</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Tomorrow its the long haul trip across the Atlas Mountains which takes four hours to get back to Marrakesh and then back to the UK until the next time!!</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Charlie</span></span><br /><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" face="trebuchet ms"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwLNfIKoGyI/AAAAAAAAAOI/UKiSewoxucg/s1600/allcrew.jpg"><br /></a></div> </div>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-36051362967417095722009-11-04T11:06:00.000-08:002009-11-17T11:14:32.091-08:00Water Water Everywhere<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKR5hXwgiI/AAAAAAAAANg/IOOHfOlzeuE/s1600/boat.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 105px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKR5hXwgiI/AAAAAAAAANg/IOOHfOlzeuE/s200/boat.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405042920194605602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, Charlie back on set still feeling pretty rough but over the worst of the illness. James is still ill and unfortunately it looks like Deane might be getting ill so we're really hoping the whole team doesn</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">'t go down with this bug.<br />Shooting has still been going really well, so apart from a few of us getting sick things are going really well this shoot. Bess and Toby are out here for a couple of days from The Sunday Times and The Church Times respectively. It's exiting to have press on the shoot this time.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKSkoOMyxI/AAAAAAAAANo/zsYuSyrNekE/s1600/view+over+lake.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 80px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKSkoOMyxI/AAAAAAAAANo/zsYuSyrNekE/s200/view+over+lake.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405043660767939346" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Today we were filming on the barrage which is a reservoir just outside Ouarzazate, the photo on the right shows this and the one above shows one of our boats - we had two bo</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ts on the water courtesy of Mike in the art </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">department that look fantastic. We also had a floating pontoon built for fi</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">lming on the water which meant we could be flexible with our angles for shooting and get all round the water scenes.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKTSHAJy5I/AAAAAAAAANw/LIguOkoriCk/s1600/man+in+smoke.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 145px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKTSHAJy5I/AAAAAAAAANw/LIguOkoriCk/s200/man+in+smoke.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405044442124635026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In addition</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> t</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">o t</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">his we filmed using a smoke tent for close ups of Jesus, Moses and Ellijah. This was done by our Second Unit which was Deane (DTI), myself and one of the Moroccan Gaffers. James was too ill to make it back onto set and it looks like Deane is coming down with whatever we have caught.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As for the mosquitos which have been really bad on this shoot they must have been feeling sorry for me as I didn't even get one</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> bite today - but everyone else got really really bitten - even those who had used whole cans of insect replellent to try and keep them at bay!!!<br />The photo on the left is one of the actors in the smoke tent!<br /><br />There was a beautiful sunset today which Ben caught on cam</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">era as we were packing up - the whole sky went r</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ed! Photo below. That's it from me today, going straight to bed as still feeling very run down having been ill so a good nights sleep will fix that. Charlie<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKUjI9qgNI/AAAAAAAAAN4/tksEX30bDss/s1600/beautiful+sunset.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 111px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SwKUjI9qgNI/AAAAAAAAAN4/tksEX30bDss/s200/beautiful+sunset.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405045834220470482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span></span><div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-22996055462785972272009-11-03T02:42:00.001-08:002009-12-28T14:29:05.396-08:00The Press Gang<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SvwAGuO9CpI/AAAAAAAAANQ/PRsuIkJFFm4/s1600-h/Press+Photo+1.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 110px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SvwAGuO9CpI/AAAAAAAAANQ/PRsuIkJFFm4/s200/Press+Photo+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403193768427719314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, Liz here with some news from the shoot. I have been told that today two journalists, Bess from The Sunday Times and Toby from The Church Times have arrived in Ouarzazate to see what our shoot is like and will write an article about it on their return.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-WPBqWuDI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Jn28YmA96SQ/s1600-h/Rigs+on+Set.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-WPBqWuDI/AAAAAAAAAPo/Jn28YmA96SQ/s200/Rigs+on+Set.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417714061638285362" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I'll post the articles on the blog as soon as I get them. I am blogging today as unfortunately Charli</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e and James are still ill and off the set at the moment. They have both been quite ill so our first proper illness on a Big Book Shoot, we got away with no bugs last time we were here.<br />The photos ab</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ove and right show Hannah our Producer with Toby and Bess watching filming from the side of a set and also the team on set on the easyrig shooting a bit of our film.<br /><br />Trevor our consultant has arrived out with Toby and Bess to accompany them on the shoot and show them around and they'll be here for a few days. Then we'll have articles in both the Times and the Church Times.<br />Trevor, Bess and Toby will be on the shoot for three days, watching filming </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">going on, speaking to the crew and cast and generally taking in the shoot experience.<br /><br /> </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-UHFV7sfI/AAAAAAAAAPY/VJmz5K1htHs/s1600-h/Press+Photo+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-UHFV7sfI/AAAAAAAAAPY/VJmz5K1htHs/s200/Press+Photo+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417711726164161010" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> In the meantime</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> here in the office we are all working har</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">d getting ready for the Big Book Media launch party which will be happenin</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">g a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s s</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oon as this shoot is over, Alec, Amory, Tim, Robbie, Maddy and I are all working on invites, projectors, screens, food, drink, displays, filmed footage to show, music, press packs, BBM folders etc.. all for the night.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The launch party will be in St Matthew's Church, Westminster, we'll show three of our short films on a large screen, Hannah, David and Trevor will speak about the company, the ideas and the shooting of the films. We will also have</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">some smaller screens playing more of our footage on a loop so it can be viewed as guests walk round the church. We'll have photos from the shoot, behind the scenes and shots from the films up as well as information on Big Book Media and Three Wise Camels and the Sunday school support tools.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-U4mvoetI/AAAAAAAAAPg/c-UaACkEEAY/s1600-h/davidben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Sy-U4mvoetI/AAAAAAAAAPg/c-UaACkEEAY/s200/davidben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417712576943913682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Then we'll be serving Moroccan themed canapes and nibbles and champagne of course! H</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">opefully it will be a great night.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />The photo in the text above is Toby holding the red camera under Deane's (DTI) guidance, having a look at what taking a shot looks like from behind it. The photo on the right is David our Director and Ben our DOP (Director of Photography) on the side of a set having a quick break between shots.<br /><br />Well that's all for now, sending best wishes over to Charlie and James and hope </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">that they get better soon and when they are able to they will blog with more news from the shoot.<br /><br />Liz<br /><br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-7764335982439310832009-11-02T06:25:00.000-08:002009-11-03T02:35:24.840-08:00Ouarzazate Belly<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8Jkkt4R6I/AAAAAAAAAMg/iufcwf0tO_0/s1600-h/IMG_0003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 114px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8Jkkt4R6I/AAAAAAAAAMg/iufcwf0tO_0/s200/IMG_0003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399545002176563106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi, Maddy here again blogging from the Big Book Media office in Brighton. Unfortunately Charlie spoke way too soon in her blog about how smoothly the shoot is going as both her and James have come down with what looks like terrible food poisoning. So I'm going to blog about the launch party and Christmas cards and hopefully they'll be on the mend soon and will send more shoot news.<br /><br />Liz has asked me to put the final Christmas card art work in my blog as she has been </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">meaning to post on this but the office has been really busy and she hasn't got it up </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">yet. We have t</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">h</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8FCgpCQ3I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/hD-g1bhOy8A/s1600-h/IMG.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 116px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8FCgpCQ3I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/hD-g1bhOy8A/s200/IMG.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399540018920440690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e actu</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">al cards in the office now</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">! They were delivered last week and our first box is going out to Bristol Cathedral to g</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">o in their shop this week. Their are four cards in our box with a picture from the last shoot on each and gold foiled text over the picture with the quote from the Bible that the image depicts. Then the quote is mirrored on the back of the card in grey on black,they look really beautiful. I have put the artwork for each card on the right of this blog so you can see what they look like, then I will blog with a photo of the cards in my next blog. </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8D0wr218I/AAAAAAAAAL4/xTaeG75ydog/s1600-h/IMG_0001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 113px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8D0wr218I/AAAAAAAAAL4/xTaeG75ydog/s200/IMG_0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399538683197446082" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />In the office everyone has been working really hard on preparing for our launch party which is next week at a church in Westminster. At the launch three of the films we have made will be shown and champagne and canapes (Moroccan themed!) will be served. Robbie has been working the hardest of us all posting and e-ma</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">iling out invites and following up with phone calls. We have invited clergy and religious media groups who will hopefully love the films and think the products are great! We will also have displays up showing photos from each of our shoot of shooting and behind the scenes also the Th</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SvAGrr69HFI/AAAAAAAAANA/zf_P9rurrag/s1600-h/IMG_0002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 118px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SvAGrr69HFI/AAAAAAAAANA/zf_P9rurrag/s200/IMG_0002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399823300811365458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ree Wise Camels products that Guy the Illustrator has been w</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">orking on - Sunday school packs and support tools and </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">information on our website. So we have lots more to do before next week!<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />The final photo </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">in my blog is our invite which we have been sending out for the last couple of weeks.</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Maddy</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8I48vVgaI/AAAAAAAAAMY/L3g8tsLHbcY/s1600-h/Invite+BBM.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su8I48vVgaI/AAAAAAAAAMY/L3g8tsLHbcY/s200/Invite+BBM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399544252710879650" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-362486935392649982009-10-28T10:05:00.000-07:002009-11-03T03:55:35.737-08:00Kingdom of Heaven<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Hi all, it's Charlie (P</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >roduction Manager) here with my first blog from t</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su75Vy8Ej8I/AAAAAAAAALo/jN3OVRpKrH8/s1600-h/jddy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 110px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su75Vy8Ej8I/AAAAAAAAALo/jN3OVRpKrH8/s200/jddy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399527156110102466" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >he second Big Book Media shoot, my job has been a much more l</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >ovely experience this time round. We have been working with a guy called Hamid who is my Moroccan counterpart and who has his own production company out here - 'Irene Producti</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ons'<br />(he is our Line Producer for the shoot).</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Filming has been fantastic so far, we are having a really smooth shoot.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This Sunday was ou</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su72p3YJFtI/AAAAAAAAALg/Rul3fntf0fI/s1600-h/pgn.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 93px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su72p3YJFtI/AAAAAAAAALg/Rul3fntf0fI/s200/pgn.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399524202364081874" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">r day off - I arranged a tour for Selva (actor who plays Jesus, James (Production Assistant), Deane (DTI) & Kathy (Photographer) to look at the 'Kingdom of Hea</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ven' set and 'The Journey to Mecca' set which are both at Atlas Studios (which Mike, Art Director and Hamid </span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >created) and also a Jerusalem temple set at ECLA Studios. D</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">eane was in heaven over how fantastic the sets were and how they had been created in terms of using the sun and light for filming!!<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su71tb4QTKI/AAAAAAAAALY/3pYg7yrVoFg/s1600-h/IMG_0005.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 144px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su71tb4QTKI/AAAAAAAAALY/3pYg7yrVoFg/s200/IMG_0005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399523164190428322" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In the afternoon I bumped into Hannine in Ouarzazate town who is Mike's assistant in the art</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> depar</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tment but isn't working on this shoot for us as she is pregnant. She lives in Agadir but has come down to Ouarzaz</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">at</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">w</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hich is her home town where her family live to give birth. There is a fantastic midwife in Ouzarzazate - she's called </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Rosie and is originally from Brighton! What a small world it always turns out to be. We are all wishing Hannine good luck and we can't wait to hear news of her baby.<br />The photo on the right is of Mike Fowlie and Hannine working on the last shoot.<br /><br /></span></span><div face="trebuchet ms"> <div face="trebuchet ms"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su7ulyhXekI/AAAAAAAAALQ/9bLKLLuB0cQ/s1600-h/hannah+in+morocco.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 110px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Su7ulyhXekI/AAAAAAAAALQ/9bLKLLuB0cQ/s200/hannah+in+morocco.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399515336248097346" border="0" /></a></div> </div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In the evening myself, Hannah and Kathy went shopping for the UK Launch Event (which is on 10th Nov in London), our bar</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tering skills were very very good, we bought some beautiful things. In the last shop where both Hannah and I bought bracelets they served us mint tea and called us both fatima's, which we found out is a very big compliment as it means our bartering skills are as good as the locals.<br />The photo on the left is Hannah in the last shop looking at bracelets and the photo is below is both myself and Hannah bartering!<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SvAaB6JOFNI/AAAAAAAAANI/oYCbsybV3uQ/s1600-h/Hannah+%26+Charlie+Day+Off.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SvAaB6JOFNI/AAAAAAAAANI/oYCbsybV3uQ/s200/Hannah+%26+Charlie+Day+Off.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399844573307344082" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After a very successful day off it was back to the hotel to get a good nights </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">sleep in before the start of week two of shooting.<br />Charlie<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></div>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-33747099211396307602009-10-25T10:09:00.000-07:002009-10-28T10:05:41.569-07:00Another Shoot Birthday - Selva's Today<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuSdygmyXeI/AAAAAAAAAKo/unPLiEMNy0M/s1600-h/Atlas+Studios+Film+Memorabilia.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuSdygmyXeI/AAAAAAAAAKo/unPLiEMNy0M/s200/Atlas+Studios+Film+Memorabilia.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396611744568335842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Today was a great day. I managed to lea</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rn how to fold a reflector. Now this may sound simple but trust me it's a skill! I've been working on my technique for the whole week and I've finally perfected it. We were shooting all exterior stuff today. Mike had created the most beautiful market scene. We also had the Donkey's back on set, although I don't think they were the same ones. I think these guys were new on the scene, much more relaxed and completely happy to pose for pictures and be interviewed!<br />Photo on the left is a piece of film memorabilia at Atlas Studios.<br /></span><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Suh4XRJyYkI/AAAAAAAAALI/OIGLz6wv2k8/s1600-h/Filming.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/Suh4XRJyYkI/AAAAAAAAALI/OIGLz6wv2k8/s200/Filming.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397696494540317250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We then had lunch and</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> another amazing cake (it was Selva's </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">birthday - though he wasn't really celebrating it as he's saving it till he gets home and is with his family) and then continued with the exterior scene</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">s. It was super from my point of view, seeing how the big productions are made. I'm used to shooting in a single room so to have all this amazing spa</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ce to p</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">lay with just seemed too much. I don't know h</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ow </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">David decides where to put the camera because there are so many beautiful positions to choose from. However the position that was chosen for the last shot of the day quickly got scrapped when David realised (by testing it himself) that the place he wanted to put the camera was on top of a very suspect fibre glass room, which you had to climb an even more suspect ladder to get to. We wrapped half an hour early. The Photo above shows Ben, the camera and some crew in the Ouzazate countryside setting up a shot.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuSeITpbcJI/AAAAAAAAAKw/arAOBP7z6oE/s1600-h/Dinner+for+Crew.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 109px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuSeITpbcJI/AAAAAAAAAKw/arAOBP7z6oE/s200/Dinner+for+Crew.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396612119046877330" border="0" /></a></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In the evening we all went out to this funky little restaurant on the edge of a cliff. As you w</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">al</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ked</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">in t</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">here were pictures of all the famous people who had eaten there, including a photo of Laurence Fishbourne (the acto</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">r who was in the Matrix)! We had dinner on the roof terrace with a little speaker to provide music, we all had a fantastic meal and celebrated a great first weeks shoot.<br />J<br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-16105504861822721642009-10-24T11:48:00.000-07:002009-10-25T10:04:05.196-07:00Extra Illusions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQc08FvRwI/AAAAAAAAAKI/U6edUqJ6OJM/s1600-h/The+Easyrig.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQc08FvRwI/AAAAAAAAAKI/U6edUqJ6OJM/s200/The+Easyrig.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396469949305669378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQcdfZVSWI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Ineg9PdBf1k/s1600-h/Jesus+and+Disciples.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 129px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQcdfZVSWI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Ineg9PdBf1k/s200/Jesus+and+Disciples.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396469546466232674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi all, James here with a couple of days blogs as didn't get a chance to write in yesterday. Yesterday morning went really smoothly on set. We spent our morning doing hand-held shots of Jesus being mobbed by crowds of people.<br />The photo on the left is Jesus preaching to his disciples and the photo on the right is Deane with the Easyrig camera!<br />After lunch we did a sort of CGI shot where we kept moving our fourty extras to different parts of the desert and then we overlayed the shots we had taken to make it look like there were hundreds of people, really clever! After the CGI shots we did some more hand-held work and </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">then wrapped in the desert with enough time to go to another location - a </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">small rural cottage. I stayed behind and helped Robin pack up, when we arrived at the cottage a bit later on we found that there had been a few problems as the cottage was owned by two brothers one of whom wasn't that happy about us filming even though it had all been pre-arranged and set up by Hamid our Line Producer with the other brother! In the end we were able to get our bit of filming done, after which we wrapped for the day.</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQdzpzGcRI/AAAAAAAAAKY/rMsPgoUYy4k/s1600-h/Actors.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 121px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQdzpzGcRI/AAAAAAAAAKY/rMsPgoUYy4k/s200/Actors.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396471026727416082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Today was our first day at the Atlas Studios, it was a very different shooting experience to all the locations shooting we have done so far - mainly because we had to light scenes for the first time which really slowed things down. We spent the morning in a synagogue which Mike Fowlie (Art Director) had built, it is really amazing. We had a light on the room and the whole room was filled with smoke to soften the light. It was pretty crowded in the room with about 20 extras plus the main cast and our crew as well as a track and dolly. The footage looks amazing some of the best film we have shot so far I think. We did our first official stunt in the movie with myself acting as stunt man before Selva (who plays Jesus) did the actual shot, it basically involves Jesus being thrown out of the synagogue which might not sound particularly dangerous but let me tell you I have a nasty little graze on my knee!!<br /><br />Lunch times are different at the studio, instead of eating on set with lunch brought down we go and eat in the restaurant by our hotel right next to the pool. There are lots of posters up on the walls of all the movies that have been shot in this location like 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'Kundun'. <br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">After the lunch we spent the rest of the day in a small room for a scene with Jesus praying - it was strange but this scene which seems simple actually took the longest to shoot - trying to get that perfect shot meant that we ran over properly for the first time and ended up wrapping at 7 o'clock.</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuNVS8GSw3I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Ifgbk10Sj7g/s1600-h/Atlas+Stu+Egypt.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuNVS8GSw3I/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Ifgbk10Sj7g/s200/Atlas+Stu+Egypt.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396250562378515314" border="0" /></a>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-74843573360383113442009-10-22T06:29:00.000-07:002009-10-22T13:05:20.031-07:00Happy Birthday to James<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuClm-QT-bI/AAAAAAAAAJY/LoIfJSuHf_M/s1600-h/Hannah+as+Extra.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 144px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuClm-QT-bI/AAAAAAAAAJY/LoIfJSuHf_M/s200/Hannah+as+Extra.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395494442554882482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuCl9TO6CLI/AAAAAAAAAJg/DhyR9JSCQ7A/s1600-h/James+as+Extra.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 149px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuCl9TO6CLI/AAAAAAAAAJg/DhyR9JSCQ7A/s200/James+as+Extra.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395494826143254706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">What up all! Well I have had a true birthday to remember.<br />Hannah, Charlie and I spent the mo</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">rning as extras dressed up in robes and sitting on the most uncomfortable floor ever, very prickly and lumpy! We spent all morning as extras on set - Hannah didn't let it stop her working though - she was on the phone between each take working hard on all UK projects. The photos are Han</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nah and Amp to the left and myself to the right! A great way to spend a birthday morning and I think when you see the film you'll agree that we made top class extras!!<br /><br />After my morning of being an extra we had a break for </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the best lunch ever - I was given a huge birthday cake (photo below of me and the large chocolate layered cake) and everyone sung to me (it was brill).<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuCoIO6T6_I/AAAAAAAAAJw/RtCInzozkLY/s1600-h/James+and+Cake.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 110px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuCoIO6T6_I/AAAAAAAAAJw/RtCInzozkLY/s200/James+and+Cake.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395497212984945650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After lunch we </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">went back on shoot and spent the rest of the day shooting</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> o</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">n a robin crane. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">We used this for the sweeping shots of Jesus walking over mountains.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We have over 50 extras on set and the diva donkeys were back today! Kathy the Photographer spent ages trying to get a picture of them but they'</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">re moody and very uncooperative and were not willing to play the game at all! It was pretty hot today and tomorrow is supposed to be boiling hot so I will be in full sun cream and hat.<br /><br />Thanks so much </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">to the Big Book office for my lovely card and present it really has been such a amazing birthday - won't ever forget it! </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">More</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> updates tomorrow but until then I'm off to have a relaxing birthday evening. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuBgOgBsKyI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Jd4MZA8R0N4/s1600-h/Robbie+and+the+Invites.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuBgOgBsKyI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Jd4MZA8R0N4/s200/Robbie+and+the+Invites.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395418155821312802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hi Liz here with a little additional bit of info to James's blog. A little update on what the Brighton office have been up to while the Production Team are away. Amory and Tim have spent the week up at Halo in London doing the final post work on our films, so we haven't seen or heard too much from them - they are holed up there and not allowed out till they finish!!<br />Alec, Robbie and I have been e-mailing, posting and phoning people inviting them to our launch party. The photo on the left is Robbie by a pile of invites with a Big Book Envelope label on his forehead! </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We have more work on this tomorrow and next week.<br />We are having two parties - one in London and then also a smaller one in Brighton so lots of planning to do for those. Alec has also been up with our website company in London getting that ready to go fully live at the end of October.<br /><br />I have got a pack of our Christmas Cards from the company 1973 so I will put a picture of those in tomorrow's blog along with the final 3 Wise Camels logo which Guy has finished working on,he's now working on our Sunday School packs.<br />. </span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-83763568346214874642009-10-21T08:39:00.000-07:002009-10-22T12:05:14.186-07:00''Another Time, Another Place, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes''<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8tPWFZhfI/AAAAAAAAAIY/d3NvV4PdQpg/s1600-h/Early+Morning+Start.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 97px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8tPWFZhfI/AAAAAAAAAIY/d3NvV4PdQpg/s200/Early+Morning+Start.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395080620262655474" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8suTFi3PI/AAAAAAAAAII/8Yq8D3gbf1s/s1600-h/Hannah+On+Set.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 142px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8suTFi3PI/AAAAAAAAAII/8Yq8D3gbf1s/s200/Hannah+On+Set.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395080052522278130" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Hi again, James here with my blog from day two of the shoot, it didn't rain</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > today </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">w</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hich was a pleasant surprise for all of us! We spent our morning shooting in a local town called Fredragon, which went really well but we overan on time which was a bit frustrating for the local people here in the town - there was a build up of tractors and donkeys around us by the end of the shoot all waiting to get on with their work.<br />The photo above is myself, Mbarek Mahmoudi and Kathy in a car early morning on the way too set - hence we are bleary eyed, especially Kathy though that may have been the camera flash in her face!! Mberek is a famous Moroccan actor.<br />The photo on the right is Hannah on set - she sensibly has her socks over her trousers to try and keep the mosquitos out which worked to a degree but they are super mosquitos so not foiled that easily!<br />The mozzies attacked all of us today when we headed out into the desert this afternoon to shoot - they really are evil, we all have very bi</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">tten legs and ankles, Kathy has been hit badly with short trousers on (she won't make that mistake again!) and also Selva our Jesus has taken a bit of a mozzie battering while being filmed at the top of the mountain in the desert. Photo of Selva below on the mountain.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8tEz24KMI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/0eqxGjDoLFs/s1600-h/Jesus.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8tEz24KMI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/0eqxGjDoLFs/s200/Jesus.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395080439276251330" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After an excellent lunch we did a lot of crane shots and all got blinded by the smoke machine (hence my reference to Bryan Ferry's Hit Song in my blog title!), but it looks amazing on camera so well worth it! I am going even more pink I've lost my sun cream so will have to try and get some more, Charlie offered me her sun oil, but I wasn't that sure about that so I left it and am even </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> more pink now - </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I'm pretty sure it will go brown, at least I hope it will - the Moroccan crew here are already comparing me to Ricky Martin!!<br />After a break for a fa</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ntastic custard & apple cake we did the last shot of the day.<br />This was a time lapse shot which had Jesus sitting in the same position for about 15 minutes!</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The photo below is of Deane and the smoke machine with clouds of smoke coming out!<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuBK3LeJO1I/AAAAAAAAAIg/FZk_Gn2gK0s/s1600-h/Smoke%21.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 167px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuBK3LeJO1I/AAAAAAAAAIg/FZk_Gn2gK0s/s200/Smoke%21.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395394665422338898" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">All in all </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I have h</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ad an excellent day and we even wrapped 10 minutes early! </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Speak to you tomorrow!<br /><br /></span></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3021971173477147847.post-38244821017865069992009-10-19T14:11:00.000-07:002009-10-25T03:01:48.375-07:00Mud Mud Glorious Mud<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQhhJEFsVI/AAAAAAAAAKg/xede5HCsNNQ/s1600-h/James+and+Action.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 108px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/SuQhhJEFsVI/AAAAAAAAAKg/xede5HCsNNQ/s200/James+and+Action.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396475106749165906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8F2O7eBLI/AAAAAAAAAHg/6S5jdwSFDdg/s1600-h/Rain+clouds+come+over.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 122px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8F2O7eBLI/AAAAAAAAAHg/6S5jdwSFDdg/s200/Rain+clouds+come+over.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395037307891745970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Well not the title I thought I would be using for my first blog for the second Big Book Media film shoot in Morocco but given that I have been the wettest today that I have ever been in my life it is definitely the most appropriate! James here (Big Book Media Production Assistant - photo of me on the left with clapper board) blogging and trying to dry out after a wet day in the desert!<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As well as getting soaked through I am also as red as a lobster, so have managed to get both s</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">oaking wet and sunburnt all on one day - I've done well! We got caught in two monsoons while shooting today - we spent all day jumping over rivers of rain working their way through the once dusty now muddy landscape and sheltering under trees when the r</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ain got really heavy to try keep out of it a little bit (not that it worked really as we all still got soaking!). The photos above are Ouzazate a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nd the mud before the rain and on the right hand photo rain clouds gathering above our team!<br /><br /> </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8GIcy_7HI/AAAAAAAAAHo/t-As5yZ2t6w/s1600-h/Pigs+Being+Transported.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 119px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8GIcy_7HI/AAAAAAAAAHo/t-As5yZ2t6w/s200/Pigs+Being+Transported.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395037620851960946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The weather pu</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">t </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">f</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ilming behind a bit so we had a quick ten min lunch and then Deane our DTI guy, Charlie and myself put togeth</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">r</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> a second unit for filming to go out and re film an earlier scene which needed a re-doing. While the first unit carri</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ed</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> on shooting through today's script. It came out really well.<br />The children who are amongst the extras on set seem to be having great fun - the </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">donkeys and pigs however not so much! Yet again whoever was responsible for casting the donkeys has given us another set of absolute Divas, they are terrible at taking direction from David (our Director!) and are making the usual outrageous demands (</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">fresh lillys and all white scented candles in their dressing trailers - the usual diva stuff!). As for the pigs, well, it took ten guys six hours to catch them and there has been a lot of infighting so Charlie has had to have words with them all and threaten the end of their contract with us if there ar</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">e anymore problems on the rest of the shoot. The photo above is of some of our Moroccan crew with all the pigs finally in a cart being moved to the set.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">All in all I had a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> great first day, and even though everyone got very wet and muddy spirits are high </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">a</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nd </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the footage looks great. My last photo shows </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Kathy our photographer's foot covered in mud having taken off her shoe </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8GhHUYkJI/AAAAAAAAAHw/iSJhuzT13MI/s1600-h/Mud+and+Kathys+Foot.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 63px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Bp77eIrZr0M/St8GhHUYkJI/AAAAAAAAAHw/iSJhuzT13MI/s200/Mud+and+Kathys+Foot.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395038044583137426" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">at the end of the day! </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I will e-mail again tomorrow with more shoot tales but for now I </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">desperately need to wash off </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">my</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> days mud and get ready for a potential lot more tomorrow!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><br /></span>Big Book Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10055300500322121942noreply@blogger.com0