Pre-production is a lot of sitting around with cast picking through a script, trying on wardrobe, and replacing light fixtures a night or two before the shoot.  Make sure you want it, though – however many people you can get to help, it’s an obscure and lonely pleasure.

A series of rainshowers all morning leaves a few minutes at a time of washout stillness.

A still from my new film, shot on Monday.  On a sunny day very soon, we’ll shoot the one remaining scene.  Keep an eye out for it this summer.