Idiots in Time Part 4

Never film on a sunday morning. Anywhere. Ever. Even if it is raining.

Because we were using friends and volunteers and people who had been otherwise press-ganged, bribed and black-mailed into appearing in the film, and because a goodly percentage of them are if not actual alcoholics, then they are certainly doing a good impression on being one, we ended up shooting most of Idiots in Time on a succession of Sunday mornings.

This had two consequences - 1. nearly everyone involved was hung-over (n.b. this might have actually improved one or two performances) and 2. wherever we went to shoot, there were dog walkers, families out for a stroll and even paragliders buzzing us at every occassion, which meant that it became increasingly frustrating and difficult to get a good take that wasn't ruined by the buzzing of engines, barking of dogs or inquisitive cries of 'what yer doin? Am I gonna be on the telly mate?'

Having said that, these petty annoyances were balanced by the sheer look of horror and incomprehension at seeing grown men dressed as Nazis, Santa, romans and emperors, wandering round a forest with a guy with a video camera at 9am on a Sunday morning.

If there is a lesson here, it's probably that you need to have security guards or something, or a very think skin...