Final shoot of the video project. Ted was feeling unwell so I took him into work with me. Got to the shoot a bit late as a consequence, I hate being late for calls but driving in from so far away sometimes early calls are a bit of a problem. I live an hour and a half away so generally I'm on time but sometimes it's difficult as other forces conspire to make me late.

Spent most of the day freezing my ass off out in the cold directing this nice subtle love story about saying sorry. The actors were great, and the students were really keen but our schedule was all over the place. We caught up by cheating it a little bit and did a number of really long takes later on in the day just to try and grab as much stuff as possible.

The PDX10 camera is a bit flaky and not really very good for sound levels, so you have to kind of wing it. Hope the sound matches the visuals, because I have a nasty feeling sound is going to be the worst part of these little films. We might get lucky but I suspect I'm going to take some heat for not making sure that was right.

We did some really cool shots and I hope it all turns out right. Not really thinking straight after nine hours out in the cold. We wrapped around 6pm and the light was gone but I think we got all the shots we were looking for.

Looking forward to tomorrow when I can veg out in my office doing menial techie jobs and boning up on Final Cut Pro ready for the edit.

Ooo, and my new Skype phone arrived. It's really cool. IPEVO free.1 is a Mac friendly Skype phone. It's about the size of a mobile with a little cable coming out of the bottom which plugs into a USB port. It's really nice. I spent about 45 minutes talking to my mum on the phone this evening. It was a long distance call but only cost me 0.012p per minute. It only crapped out once or twice, normal considering how we are getting used to that on mobiles. Plus I use my Mac wireless in the house. If I used a cable it might be more stable. But way cool. Oh and BTW I got the black one. :)

Seriously considering ditching the landline and using Skype. I also now have SkypeIn which gives me a UK landline number on which you can call me on Skype. It's a London number but hey, it's a phone.