On the 16th August after a year’s engagement and 7 years together, I get married to Sarah. We hope that it will be a wedding to remember (as apparently I’ve got to be sober and nice to people during the day – who’d have thought it!)
This presented the problem of a stag do and more importantly what to do. I wanted it to be something I enjoyed doing, something that was fun – and there is nothing I love more than making films.
So that’s exactly what I did. With a crew of chums from all the terrible terrible short films we used to make together when we were 16 and actors who we found through a casting session – we had a film in the script called “I Did”.
The plot follows a groom and his best man, 24 hours from the wedding day who discover that the groom got married on his stag do – and that wife has turned up. How will he explain it to his bride to be? How will he solve the seating arrangements, and how much more annoying can his best man be?
Now you’re wondering what we used, so here is the gear list:
Canon 6D
Tamron 24-70 f2.8 VC
Manfrotto 504 head with sticks
Edelkrone Slider
Zoom H6 & a Zoom H4N
Rode NTG2
4 Seinheiser ew112 lav mics
Various daylight and tungsten balanced lights.
A bucket load of tea, coffee, biscuits and curry.
It was a fantastic production to do although extremely tiring (17 pages in two days) – but as a cast and crew we all bonded and had a great time making this film. Well I did and it was my stag – so I win.
I’m hoping – post production all going well – that it will have a Christmas release date.
Some stills from the day can be found here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskghGxqC