Fire! Fire! The electricity in the old warehouse was a series of extension leads all powered from the one socket. On the first night of shooting the light blew, complete darkness ensued, those that knew the wiring went straight to the power source looking for trouble, luckily the extinguisher was not required, but in there in the darkness in clown costume there were visions of an ever hungry flame.
The tin roof of the empty warehouse amplified the torrential rain and then the dreaded happened, it started to leak! Pools of water on the floor were forming. growing, and expanding. If a puddle got to the paper screen it would absorb and destroy the paper structure! Panic-Pandemonium-Paranoia Hours were spent mopping and empting buckets of water, keeping the paper screen dry.
After having asked the cast to re-shoot twice, borrow and hired equipment again and again I thought that this work was just not to be when I played the dv tapes through the computer and saw this image. I didn't know of any digital god to pray to. I did as the computers sometimes do 'froze'. Connections were checked, friends called and expletives screamed. The problem was the a dodgy dv player and thankfully not the tapes.
