Got up at 6am, was on the road by 6.30. Arrived at school and parked up, whipped into school and on a whim picked up my head light. This is a natty little number which has three LEDs and clamps to your head via a very soft but snappy headband. I was going down the Bristol Old Vic theatre to set up this stage management lesson with a few of the techie students and I dunno I just got an intuition it would be a handy thing to pack.

Got to the theatre at 8.30 but had to wait till about 9.00 before we could get started. On the way into the theatre I opened a door stepped into the backstage area and the door closed behind me. Pitch black, as you only get underground and backstage at these old victorian theatres. Stumbled around for a few seconds till I remembered the head torch. I must be psychic or something.

We got the projector and speakers and screen set up in record time, despite none of us having every set up one of these interactive video lessons before. It's a really cool thing actually. We film a performance, and have one channel of the show and one of the "cans" or the backstage comms system. Then we project that on a small screen in the actual theatre and let the students operate the desk for the real show while watching the video. Cool huh?

It all went smoothly and we were out of there by 9.30. I whipped back up to the school and ordered a couple of new Macs for ones which have either died or just gotten too darn old. Just had time to have a chat with my boss about how the shoot went and tell him the interactive video thing was up and running. At 10.30 I was out of there and tooling home for the appointment with the gas man for the boiler service, who in the wisdom of British Gas was set to appear any time between 12 noon and 6pm. Around 20 minutes ago I got a call from them saying that the appointment had been cancelled due to too many emergency calls and would I like to reschedule? Oh my god. I took the day off work and now I twiddled my thumbs all day for nothing. What a waste of time. Oh well at least I had time to type this entry.

Anyway happier topics. The warm glow from the shoot will take a while to subside. That should last me until I can get my own project up and running. Still wavering about whether it should be a feature or a short. Ah well, time will tell. I've been asked to stop on some of the other shooting days over the next 10 days, so I might go back and see how they're doing towards the end of the week.

Ah the magic of cinema. Brr.