Friday Night Is Movie Night

 So exactly 4 months to the day after the cameras rolled on the feature film project I've been working on this year, I sat in a rather wonderful cinema in a West End hotel with 40 or more of the cast and crew to watch the end results.

 The film has already been approved by those who need to approve it, but sharing it with the people who made it is a special night. The role of director gave me a heightened insight to the contribution of everybody on a film set and I was as delighted to see boom operators, and make up artists as I was to see the wonderful guest stars and main cast who came along to share the evening.

So often  cast and crew screenings are at 10 AM on a Sunday morning when one just has time for a quick coffee and a bacon roll after getting off the tube. The luxury of a screening at 7 PM on a Friday night in the centre of town after glasses of Prosecco and canapés was a real treat.

And then to press the button and set the film rolling in front of those people who were responsible for it.

It's something I'm terribly proud of having done and I'm hoping that when it gets a screening in front of an audience in a couple of weeks it will get a great reaction, but to get the chance of watching the team see it was fantastic.

When I next blog hopefully I'll be able to reveal many more details about this project which has really occupied the whole of 2021, but suffice it to say at the moment, I know how lucky I am to have had a project that has been both challenging and fulfilling in these difficult times.








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