Goodbye light...

This is the last week of British Summertime.  Not that you would know it here in Scotland as the weather continues to be persistently bleak...

When the Script for I Love Luci was initially conceived I set it in the summer or early autumn.  As it transpires we are gearing up to shoot at the beginning of winter.  We had hoped that we might be able to get things moving fast enough to get the stuff shot before the end of British Summertime when you do at least have a reasonable amount of light in the day. 

I am not overly concerned about how this affects the story.  I think we can use it to our advantage if we apply a little creativity.  There are some serious practical implications.

I have talked a bit about schedule in the past and one constant is the tightness of a shooting schedule.  They tend to be lean by nature.

This Sunday the clocks go back one hour.  Gaining an hour sounds useful on first impression but the reality is that all of a sudden it start to get dark at about 4 in the afternoon which takes a considerable chunk out of your working day if daylights important to whatever you're up to.

This coupled with what looks like an expanding production schedule means that we are heading towards the abyss of Scottish winter and some new thinking on the shooting schedule.