Four weeks to blastoff and though I feel quite relaxed about the whole thing it’s obviously getting to me. Woke up in the middle of the night and found I’d been having a nightmare about different ways of covering the numerous drive-by’s the movie will feature. Initially I was furious with myself – I mean, this is second unit stuff – you need to get some sleep! But then common sense kicked in and there I was at 3am scribbling notes regarding angles, lenses and focal lengths furiously on the pad I keep by my bed for such moments of ‘genius.’ The benefits of such nocturnal sessions aside isn’t it amazing what power our conscious has in that it can override what we’re really thinking (bloody hell – how am I going to shoot this thing?) with what we’d like to be thinking (I can do this – everything’s going to be allright)?
Back in Vancouver: Josh played us the demo version of the Woah! song down the phone. (Woah! is the band who are 2gether’s bete noire). It’s catchy and hysterical at the same time and is all about wanking which is a subject I could write about at great length. And on that note…