Bit of a delay since my last blog...the run of schools I was filming took over everything for a couple of weeks. One of the dates got mixed up (no hands held up on this one...) and meant the final date of the plays I was to film was put back a week. This also meant that the delivery date would be a lot tighter – instead of having a week or so to edit and create the DVD's I now had around 2 days (and two days over which we had guests coming to stay).
One of the schools had ordered 30 odd copies and luckily I found a local DVD duplication company who also produced good quality print inserts (based in Heaton Mersey) and who could turn them around within a day. So finally with but a day spare I managed to get them all completed and delivered within the deadline (not adhering to this would've meant we wouldn't have got paid...and all that hard work down the drain).
Quite pleased with the results and although we weren't given a huge amount of time (and budget) to get these completed I think the viewers (really the parents of the kids) will be pleased.
The Manchester Arts Council grouo behind these productions has sadly been disbanded after around fifteen years, but it's highly possible they will reform under another guise: here's hoping because i bet they did the kids involved in these plays a whole world of good.
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