Sure enough today was better than yesterday. Let's face it it would be hard to top the sheer dumb bad luck of Monday's sequence of events. Got into work early at around 7.58am, walked the dog, sat and drunk some tea for a bit then got set up for the lesson.

I'm teaching some heavy technical detail at the moment. I have to get the 1st year students up to speed very quick in the run up to the video project, so I've taken the easy way out, I'm showing them tutorial videos. I use a service called Lynda.com, which is excellent by the way, so I showed them a few videos from Larry Jordan's guide to Basic Video. It's a lot of technical detail and they are customaily filling about 7-8 sheets of paper with notes. But at the finish of it they are coming away with a lot of knowledge albeit crammed into one morning of their short but happy lives.

Spent the rest of the day setting up stuff for people who are teaching other subjects like acting and TV technique.

Had a really good day. And apart from anything else I let my leading man for my movie read the script I have up till now, which is about 40 pages, and he was blown away. That was nice because it's the first time I've ever shown the script to anyone outside my immediate circle of friends and it was a bit nerve racking. But he loved it and asked some really intelligent questions. I'm so loving this whole process. It just feels right.

Next Simon my Director of Photography came by because he was in Bristol and spent a bit of time going over the script and asking some questions about how I'd like it shot. He said that HD would be a problem, and had I thought of shooting it on 16:9 DVCAM instead because we have access to the kit and it would be less of a problem to process and edit. He has a point. I'd love to shoot it on HD or HDV, but I don;t have the resources to do that. Maybe I'll shoot the first bit in DVCAM and then migrate to HDV... I dunno it's early days, but I'm aware that HD would be better. Maybe shooting on SD is sensible at this point, as HD would require additional crew and besides neither Simon or I have any experience of HD so maybe we should stick to what we know and have handy. Food for thought.