The Orange FilmFour Prize For Short Film

This week: More Extracts From The Finalists' Diaries

	KEY DATES
	April 2002-
	finalists' films in production
	Aug 2002-
	six films screened at Edinburgh Film Festival
	Aug 2002-
	six films screened on Channel 4

Shorts
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The six Orange FilmFour Prize For Short Film finalists are now in post-production with their films. Over the coming weeks we will be bringing you extracts from the finalists' personal diaries of their experiences making the films. We will also be bringing you behind-the-scenes location photos from all six shoots.

This week, three of the finalists reveal their thoughts on aspects of the production of their films.

Miranda Bowen, Stagnate
"What a different story. What an amazing experience! (And I'm not just saying that for a bit of ripe publicity on behalf of the powers that be!). For the first time in my directing career (if the word 'career' isn't too grand), I was actually exposed to the wonderment of being able to have the luxury of getting exactly what I wanted. This is essentially due to having such a creative and conscientious crew where everyone from DOP down to runner seemed to be singing from the same song sheet".

"All creative components - make up, costume, art direction, cinematography and performance appeared to come together in a magical way. I feel quite overwhelmed!"

"When the documentary crew arrived on Friday morning they interviewed Rob and me and their first question was 'What challenges have you encountered so far?' and we stared blankly back at the camera".

Faye Gilbert, Hard Little Man
"It was the beginning of June. Yup, rain, wind, clouds and just to disrupt the continuity of the scenes even more - intermittent bright sunshine! Oh the joys of filming on location in Britain".

"The spider trainer took a spider out of the container so that we could see how fast it was likely to scurry away. Its legs didn't even hit the floor - it was swept off at approximately fifty miles an hour by the wind".

Patrik Bergh, Veronique
"We lost a lot of hours on that first day and I felt very depressed driving home. The following night I would wake up to write down notes about various changes to the shooting script that I wanted to make or if there was anything I thought we might have to re-shoot."

"The second and third day passed without any real complications and in the end I couldn't have asked more from the crew or the actors, they where all brilliant."

"To shoot on a bus was never going to be an ideal situation. Suffering from claustrophobia it was very difficult at times when we had so much equipment and crew on board the bus."

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