David Levy – Making the film : Sand, Sea and Sewage – Sep 20
To undergo the experience of the making of a film where two people exchange dialogue is not straight forward, whatever your life experience.
Experiencing it at first hand gives a person a respect for those who make lengthy films with complicated scripted dialogue. Brad Pitt has nothing to worry about from these lips.
The actual filming was undertaken out of sequence, so to speak. It was not a filming of a continuous conversation, but filmed separately in snatches, a sort of out of sequence theatre.
I was lost, could not string two lines together and felt like a rabbit in the headlights, just waiting for the crash to happen.
My colleague, Stephen Eades, seemed to me a natural. His account was very similar to my own, but he seemed to own the camera in my eyes.
Anyway we did our best; and, as they say, experience is everything.
I should have remembered my school years when I wisely stayed behind the stage and produced lighting, make-up and scenery. Apparently I knew something then which I had forgotten over the years.
The Sand Sea and Sewage report is now available on our website.
The film is available via YouTube.
David Levy
