A simple concept, as the kid alters his Lego car at home so his
fathers car changes in reality.
We shot the exteriors one day and the studio the next.
The weather on the exterior was variable to put it mildly, going
from brilliant sunshine to torrential downpour and back several
times.
As we needed a grey overcast day we had to time the extreme wide
shots for bad light and then either light or flag the closer shots
as appropriate
This was one of those occasions when you realise that being the
DP can mean everyone hating you :-)
We had a cover up to stop the rain from soaking everyone but it
was interfering with the matching of lighting so I had it
removed and made everyone work in a torrential downpour.
We had a 20 * 20 blue screen mounted on the side of a lighting truck
so that we could rapidly re-position the blue screen wherever we
needed on the exterior.
I was a bit worried about the blue-screen because to get the look
I wanted on the exterior I was shooting without an 85, in the end
it was fine.
