A round-up of recent events during the past very busy week! Casting-wise our Director Laura has been going to lots of theatre productions, in an effort to spot actors, as well as our Casting Director Tree's new strategy of getting in touch with the real thing: people from east London who are the part, not just playing the part. Indie boys, trannies and anyone who is interested in being part of documenting the unique time and place that is east London, as part of the unique social landscape, get in touch! The casting continued at the TODAY IS BORING studios this past weekend! At the top of our most wanted list is a Max!
Our meetings with various good people for the positions of Head of Wardrobe and Director of Photography continued through the past week. While the latter is as yet unconfirmed, we are happy to announce that Malin Persson is our new Costume Designer. We have had the pleasure of meeting with some great people for both these positions, a big thank you all concerned. We hope to soon have the first installment up online from our 'Making Of' team: Munir Malik and Tim Parkinson! Our first party, held last Monday, was filmed in part by Munir and Tim, and they are doing the final edit as we speak.
Charlotte Gruen, our Production Co-Ordinator is back from the incapacitating grip of acute hayfever paralysis, thanks to some nuclear powered fuck-off medication from Germany. Its time to tell everyone a little more about Charlotte:
Born in the Piscean month March of the year 1986, Charlotte’s full name is Charlotte Melinde Agnes Maria Grün. Her boyfriend Andy (‘Twig’) Twigden of Indie-rockband Strangeways calls her CMAMG (pronounced “Seemamgee”). Charlotte and Andy own a Hamster called Harry. He is a little overweight. That is, the Hamster, not her boyfriend Andy. Her parents, a mellow doctor and a fiery actress raised her in Berlin. She has an older brother, called Vincent. When Charlotte turned nine, they all decided to move to London, allowing her to grow up bilingually english and german. Heeding the words of Oprah Winfrey ' ... to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself', Charlotte decided to move to Québec to learn french…or something like it, when she was 16. Living across Europe and Québec has enabled her to interact easily with people from diverse cultures. A people person, complete with the required outgoing personality, she tries to be as open-minded as possible, but sometimes, people get on her tits ... figuratively speaking. Having studied Film and Television Studies at Brunel University in 2005-2008, Charlotte has now finally been able to get her small toe in the door of the film and television industry. In recent times Charlotte has worked on various television productions, including Nikelodeon Kids-TV show Staraoke and SkyOne’s most famous Cirque de Célébrité, presented by Ruby Wax. She has worked as an on-set translator and interpreter for various German and British Film and Television Productions. Most importantly however, she was Production Assistant on Electric Blue’s Short film Shoreditch Sonata and is now excited to call herself Production Co-Ordinator on Live East, Die Young, enjoying doing the work no one else can be fucked to do.
Location-wise we, or rather Laura, has been able to secure one of our required locations through a most ingenious manoeuvre: that of becoming a flat mate in a fantastic warehouse flat, and subletting her existing flatshare in the meantime. Laura will be making the move next weekend, and the rest of the crew will be making a visit, to check out this location on the lapping shores on the turd-brown putrid Regent's Canal, which holds all of East London's secrets at the bottom of its eel-ridden waters. Lovely.
Finance-wise, we are still looking for angels of a fiscal nature to visit us. Tooth fairies are one of the latest suggestions from the crew, as the combined cash raised by extracting all of the crews' teeth with vice-grips would be just enough to buy a DV cassette tape for the camera we don't have. Perhaps a quick dive in the aforementioned canal would result a larger pile of unattached teeth from unidentified human remains for said fairy.
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