Washing Line's Production.

Upon reaching the end of The Washing Line's production, I thought I might close by giving insight into production.

First off, production wasn't completely smooth, with all the booking complications, though, I don't feel that reflects, in large part due to Jen's wonderful work with the visuals, as well as her directing prowess. I feel it's come together wonderfully, though, there areas certainly aspects of the work I contributed, that I would change, which I wanted to talk about. Sound, writer, camera operator, and DoP, and casting are the roles I took on.

The writing process is where I tend to find the most I have the most fun, and this project certainly gave me the chance to scratch that itch, for the most part, since me and Jen had incredibly similar visions for this, it ended up feeling very free to write, which I find helps a script, in my opinion. The final script was a touch light on dialogue, though I feel that worked for the film, in the end.

As for my work casting, I'm over the moon that I found Dougie, Adrian and Maeve-Anne early on, I felt they all suited their castings wonderfully. Though, as it does, disaster struck and Maeve-Anne was made unavailable, and we had a short time till shoot to find another actor to play her part. Luckily, Jen was able to ask George to play the role, and despite playing a character that was actually written around the casting of Maeve-Anne, he managed to really take the character into his own, and create a take on the character that very much remained loyal to the script, while making it his own. One thing I learnt from this, was that frequent contact with actors is so vital, without it, we would have had far less time to recast Maeve-Anne's role.

Camera operation and DoP very much go hand in hand, but in the case of this film, being DoP wasn't massively involving on set, due to shooting on a greenscreen, though, I very much had a lot of input in the aesthetic of the dollhouse we used, as well as the look of the edit. There really isn't much I can add to that, since I'm so happy with the look of the film.

Finally, sound, I worked a fair bit on sound, as it was something I really wanted to find feet in, with this project. Jen worked wonderfully mixing the sound to the visuals, and made the process of sound editing much smoother, to that end, I hope my work smoothed her process too. The voice actor Issac, did a wonderful job acting the voice of the Propaganda reader, and it was a treat to edit, and master, and I'm happy with the result of that, I think it came out nicely, though, next time, I would be a bit more experimental with the distortion effects. As for the Foly, it was a relatively standard session of rerecording sounds that couldn't be mastered or fixed, and adding them in place, we took multiple recordings of each sound needed, to make sure they could be mixed and matched if needed, as well as recording the lines for the soldier.

Overall, it's a film I'm proud of. And while it's never good to overpraise yourself, I think that myself and Jen have done a good job, and it's something I can take pride in.