No matter how much you prepare (or don't, ha!) the weather just does what it likes.  Is it humbling?  Yeah.  Is it a pain?  Most definitely.  Humblingy painful.

I've spent most of this evening (that's Friday night) looking at footage, making last minute arrangements and phonecalls, and meeting up with my friend Matt.  Bones are aching from carrying equipment, and we were all pretty tired from getting cold, wet and warming up again, on a showery wash-rinse cycle.

Today we shot in and around the City of London, including London Bridge to get Tower Bridge in the background.  At this rate every London landmark will make an appearance in the film at some point.  Most of the other stuff today involved small pick-ups (like a CCTV camera cut-away and a hand on a door handle), but also a number of shots for the opening of the film.

Just before I sign off: there appear to be three types of people on the streets when dealing with a camera on a tripod.  The first don't notice, care or feign disinterest.  The second watch curiously, ask politely what you're doing or tell you everything is private property, including the street, trees and air.  The most incidious, however, walk past and stick their faces into lens or wave their hand past or jump up and down like little children to ruin your shot on their way to an expensive business lunch set-up by some partner in the company.  I've been thinking about it a bit this evening and I can't fathom it.  Are these the boys and girls who used to jump up and down in other people's photographs?  Wouldn't be fantastic if, the next time they present next month's growth estimates to the board, you could just pop your head on the OHP glass and blow a raspberry.

No, that would just be childish.

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