First Shooting Night

Okay, so I bent the truth ever-so-slightly. In actual fact, shooting on Torso began a few weeks back. The first night of shooting, involving Sarah and Rory, took place on March 13th. Sarah plays Sarah (imaginatively enough), and Rory plays Roberto, however not the same Roberto as portrayed in the original by Luc Merenda. Unfortunately, at around midnight on the 13th (or 14th, depending on how you look at it) we discovered all the footage from the evening hadn't actually recorded due to a dodgy DV-cassette. So, after that "trial-run", we re-shot the footage on March 27th.

Re-shoots already. Not the best of starts, but the footage second-time-round looks excellent. I've posted a couple of screen-captures from the first night (below). NB: Sarah's dicking around on camera will be in the out-takes reel, and not the film itself.


In between those two nights, I did some location-scouting in Italy; in a small town outside of Rome named Artena. I shot a whole cassette of footage whilst I was out there which will make it's way into the film in a multitude of establishing shots, no doubt.

Back to the 27th, the first 'official' shooting date. After a Chinese take-away and waiting about three hours for Sarah to do her hair, we got started on a pivotal scene involving the two characters. I shan't go into details as to not give too much of the plot away, but the scene is coming together very well. As low-budget productions go, we have to wait until we're all free again. And what with Sarah having a haircut and spouting some rubbish about not being able to wash her hair two consecutive days (must be a girl thing), Rory having a Spanish oral exam, and me having the most shifts at work I've had all year, the next night of shooting will be a week Sunday - April 20th. On that date we'll be shooting on set at Norman Road, and also on location in Manchester town centre, which will probably bring us a whole wealth of new problems.

It's for art's sake...