Paperthin Hero Day Two

This weekend was full of all work and no play (well we did squeeze in some fun!) with a lot of early mornings!

Saturday was the house shoot so we filmed in our Weymouth barn location again but filmed two scenes between our Mum Georgia and the loveliest little boy Elliot who is our main boy. 

We had to age Georgia so there was a good comparison between the flashbacks and her mother look now, so our costume girl Beth dressed her in a cardi and headscarf and Keleigh made sure her make up was much more muted.

Elliot needed to look like a typical little boy at school but with a twist, he had a great big shiner on the side of his face from the bullies at school. Elliot made sure he looked cool for school on Monday!

{Shiner}

{Elliot's School Boy Outfit}

{Georgia and her Marigolds}

{Battleman comic designed by Alex and illustrated in the US}

{Crew and Cast working on the kitchen scene}

We had a great day on Saturday and everything was going so well, a little too well....

And then the heavens opened on Sunday, the day we were filming with 3 kids in an uncovered alleyway ALL DAY! We started filming and each take showed us a more and more soggy group of kids so we unfortunately had to stop filming. Annoyingly the rain was just ruining every shot and Joel's baby, his camera.

So we made the executive decision to get out of the freezing rain and re-schedule for next week. The kids were brilliant though so at least we know they're good enough to get the shots done relatively speedy.

The rest of the weekend was made up of going to pre drinks for parties and leaving at 11 for bed before I fell asleep on someone's shoulder! On Sunday night Emma came round for a sleepover, we had a delish chicken curry and watched a new programme called Homeland. Its really good, I can't believe I hadn't seen it before. Hope everyone had a more relaxing weekend than me!

Paperthin Hero Day One

Today was the first day of Alex's shoot and it was such a good day filming!

The film is a period drama set around the 1950s with 40s flashbacks about a little boy who believes in superheroes. Today we filmed the flashbacks of the boy's parents beginning their life together and showing his gradual process to signing into the army and leaving his young family.

The shots were brilliant, we found a great location to be their house, a cosy, run down barn in Weymouth which gave us some really nice looking shots. We also shot at Poole docks which was quite surreal filming around massive cranes!

Here are a few production shots of Matt and Georgia, our actors for the day, they were great and really worked well together. The costumes looked incredible and we're so pleased with it all!

{Grubby dock worker Matt}

{Basically Rupert the Bear}

{Our lovely cameraman Joel}

{Gorgeous Georgia in a handmade dress by Beth}

{Kissy kissy}

{Matt getting his conscription flyer in the post}

{Julian became my favourite model of the day}

{Jumping in shot}

{Soundman Julian}

{Georgia kneeding Alex and I's handmade bread}

{Amazing WWII outift}

{We had a special moustache made for Matt}

{Tearful goodbyes}

{War photo of the father which is given to his young son}

We have two more long days left of shooting over the weekend so theres no rest for the wicked. Will post the other two days filming on Monday for you to see! Have a good weekend everyone!