Jonnie meditating Setting up the first shot Miracle worker ! Sunshine at last !

11.55am

 
Still waiting for make-up. I texted Cristina to tell her at 7am that we would shoot 118 first at 8.30am. Instead her and Julie turned up on set with the wrong hair style. They had to go off set as the generator is broken. Now I have lost 3 hours shooting on key scenes. In the mean time I have shot a few inserts of nature that were missing including the backlit leaf that might start the film if I don't use the zoom out from the tree.
 
2.12pm
 
Now shooting magic ring of candles. Malika's costume, hair and make-up are wonderful. Cristina has made a crown of different flowers. It was worth waiting for. She looks amazing. Jade came up with this costume and prompted all this activity.
 
The temperature has dropped and I can see that Jonnie and Julie are freezing. We have to shoot another scene where Callum is thrown into the lake. That bodes ill. The doctor will arrive later.
 
Everyone is starving. Pete was sent to collect the sandwiches and a ladder two hours ago. He came back with the ladder but forgot the sandwiches! Rhys said "I'm not in charge of hiring and firing!" The problem is he is doing his second job i.e. running not doing the documentary!
 
4.00pm
 
Yann Goven, a Breton actor that Marina found turned up today. I needed someone to play the part of the Breton Hunter who turns up at the camp site. All his dialogue is off camera so I recorded it as a wild track. He improvised beautifully. The initial part is a song about hunting then exclamations as he pushes the tent. Wonderful. The guy is a real talent.
 
Problems of the second London shoot are starting to come in now. Actors availabilities. Location availabilities. It is getting quite annoying but I still can't focus on it until I am down the road or on the ferry.
 
9.00pm
 
Now about to do another schedule. Today turned into a total disaster. Most of the things Paul Gernon was meant to bring to set never materialised for unknown reasons. Jonnie also went from bad to worse. He has the fear again I can see and his heart rate is up to 96bpm. The doctor told him going into the lake would be suicide. I sent him home to bed and shot some inserts on a tree with origami birds hanging from it for the mushrooms scene. They are the same origami birds that hung in Emma's study.
 
This meant we had to change our ferry from 5pm to 11pm. We will now get the night ferry if we can complete tomorrow. I have moved a couple more smaller scenes to London. We will have to find a wood for them but that is fine. Scene's 120 and 1B have to be shot here in Broceliande by the lake.
 
It is like the forest does not want us to leave yet. Tomorrow is the full moon. As I walked back from the forest to the village cafe I saw it looming proudly over the trees. Maybe we were destined to see it in full magnificence tomorrow. Legend has it that a portal opens in the rocks overlooking the lake in the position where the reflection of the moon in the lake is cast in the rocks. The portal is meant to be to another world!
 
Every time we delay our exit from France it costs us money. We can ill afford this delay.
 
12,10am
 
Off to bed. So totally exhausted I couldn't find my way back to the camping site from the restaurant despite having done the walk 40 times. I had to go back and ask Jose to drive me. My back and neck are throbbing with pain. I am shattered.
 
If we don't complete tomorrow we are totally screwed.