Great Big God Producers Blog 2
October 08
So the countdown on my google desktop tells me we’re 12 days away from our DVD shoot at this stage… Having never ever organised a film shoot before it’s been a steep learning curve for all of us but we have a great team working on making it happen and there’s plenty of enthusiasm in the camp. Going through the team lists yesterday I realised that there were around 50 adults involved in some way or other during the production week as well as the 25 kids singing & dancing on the stage and the other 100 or so who will come and be in the audience. It feels like an awesome & humbling privilege that all these people are coming just because I had a crazy idea one day.
After 2 days of intense band rehearsals at the end of September we got straight into working with the various kids who are going to sing and dance on stage which was a lot of fun. We actually took some good footage which we were hoping to upload a bit sooner but we got stuck with some legal questions about whether we could show the kids on the web (I think we can so watch this space). Everyone’s been practising their words and moves, the script is almost finalised, the backdrop is being printed, the food order’s gone for the week, the t shirt colours are firmed up and I can only count 16 things left on my to do list.
I’ll be so glad when the production week finally gets underway and I can dial down on the admin front and dial up on the creative side. There is a lot of energy and passion from everyone on the team & I’m so excited about being able to capture some of that on film.
There are still a few places left in the audience so if you know kids who would be up for it, do encourage them to book in.
Cheers - Nigel Hemming
posted by Dave
