Week 7 continues

May 04, 2010. Pete Brooks' diary

Morning Tuesday May 4th and everything is going well except that Irish airspace has been closed due to the continuing eruption in Iceland. Steve Keay our technician is supposed to be flying here on Thursday so we are all keeping our fingers crossed that the situation doesn't get any worse. Tonight we are going to try out of projections and also moving the various set elements around in the space. Twelve hour plus working days have become the norm but no one is complaining. In the theatre you can start to see what the project is or might be, there is pressure but not too much, I don't think we have any real time problems, there is even the possibility of a day free on Saturday because the theatre is being used, but also we may have to do some filming Saturday morning. If Steve can't get here that will be a big problem, but we just have to wait and see.

May 04, 2010. Ruchita's diary
Steve not coming is a possibility I refuse to think about. We're just going to get on with the work and keep our fingers crossed.

It's a rainy day in Polverigi. Work on the sets is going full steam ahead. Last evening we recorded the dialogue with our lovely Italian actress Cecilia Raponi who will play the lead and Lorenzo Marinangeli who has lent us his best director's voice for the soundtrack. Today in the second phase of sound recordings we will capture Cecilia's rendition of Burnt Norton (in Italian of course) for our parallel text. Martin is busy splicing the dialogue together. The performance is slowly but very surely taking shape.