Day 6:

Back to the college for our BIG day. Things started out well, the college was full of students which is annoying as I wanted to film this stuff last week the day after our first college shoot but the canteen lady (we are filming in the canteen) said that the 18th and 19th would be the best days as the canteen would be empty of students. So we chose the 18th (changed alter to the 19th) and lo and behold the canteen is full of students. Also as the bulb blew last time on one of the lights, G-Mac informed us that they couldn't get another bulb and we would only have 2 lights (which we didn't use). Also we only had 5 extras which didn't matter as the canteen was full anyway (PS. Thanks to Kathryn, Tony, Simone, Lisa and Michaela (not sure if thats the spelling) for turning up anyway).

So we started with scene we missed last week on the Library Stairs, while Angela nicely ran off to get us some tapes and chips n gravy and baked potato n tuna for props for the canteen scene (for the record the chips n gravy were stuck together and the tuna stank). We filmed the first part in the stairwell and then moved into the lobby outside the library and tried to get Jen to keep her final line quiet until the take (I'm not sure the Old Guy in the Library Office wanted to hear the line "Girls do like a nice guy, they also like a good hard fuck now and again though!" over and over again, or maybe he did!

We moved up to the canteen and started light with the 'getting served' and 'bumping into Lynsay part'. Then we moved onto the mammoth sit down scene. First starting easy with the 'Jani's a clone' speech and then the 'Baywatch Movie' scene and just as the canteen got really full and Rachel had about half an hour before she had to run off, for a tech rehearsal for a show she was in that night, we tried to tackle 'Benny's Song'. 'Nuff respect to Chris for standing on a table in front of a packed canteen and singing "I Get a Kick out of You" at the top of his voice (with a coke bottle for a mic). We also had to let Jen go for a similar show that night so we got creative. We filmed her close-ups for the next part of the scene then abandoned that scene and took Ross and Rachel to the stairwell for their scene. We shot them both and then Rachel and we let Rach go for her show and poor Ross had to act to a wall and lean in for a kiss with the marble effect. Then we discovered we were locked in the stairway and had to find our way out.

So back to the canteen and quickly finish the scene, then go back to the stairwell for the scene with Johnny's dead bodies 'Killer tripods' movie. Nope, Chris had to make work which is fair enough so we switched and went to the tearoom for that 4 page scene first. We got the first part done and then dipshit here, forgot to charge the second battery the night before (bcos he was too busy learning his lines for his one scene). So we had to abandon shoot for the day at 2.30pm.

Good news there is that we get to the pub earlier. After taking the equipment back (thanks guys). Gareth, David and myself got the subway to Kelvinbridge and had a few pints in The Halt before heading round to Gareth's flat with a few cans and a bit of guy chat, listened to the Team America soundtrack and then Catriona joined us and we had another drink before heading round to Glasgow Uni Theatre to watch the show.

It turned in to a sort of mini-pondlife night out as Jen and Rachel were in the shows and we bumped into Shona (who plays Toni) and one of the guys in the one of the other shows and (unsuccessfully) auditioned for the role of Benny. Jen's show was up first, a 20-minute excerpt from the Trainspotting play. She was very good, if I'm not being biased. the second was a powerful excerpt from "Wormwood", a play about the effects of Chernobyl. (featuring unsuccessful Benny guy). The third was Rachel's, it was called "Mute", I think and it showed a guy going between the two women in his life matched to music, the first time pop tunes and the second instrumentals. It was quite funny. The fourth was a play about convicts in australia putting on a play back when the english first used it as a convict colony. That was probably my favourite. So then we skipped the last show, left David to watch it and got the subway home (picking up a chips, cheese and donner meat on the way) and crashed out.